TARKI is a research institute in the field of social science and market research. It aims to develop Hungarian empirical sociological research, function as a data bank that collects the data bases of Hungarian and foreign surveys and facilitate the spreading of an up-to-date methodological culture.
Research has mainly been carried out in the following fields:
economic trends analyses, the analysis of corporate behaviour,
- institutional reforms (health care system, pension system),
- income distribution, labour market, structure of the society,
- population attitudes,
- micro-simulations (economic-social impact studies),
- methodological consultancy,
- international comparative studies,
- research into local government,
- statistical and social science methodological research,
- poverty, inequality, social policy,
- elections research