In the last years access to research data has made a lot of progress in EU countries. Nevertheless transnational access … to confidential microdata – although there are some developments like "Data without Boundaries" – is still complicated …

heterogeneous. Against this background, the paper discusses to what extent existing and projected data sources are suitable for … likely to receive the most attractive types? Are training measures effective? When reviewing the current data situation, it … questions can presently not be answered on the basis of the available large-scale data on vocational education and training …

Metadata, or data about data, play a crucial rule in social sciences to ensure that high quality documentation and … community knowledge are properly captured and surround the data across its entire life cycle, from the early stages of … focuses on two specifications - the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange …

Nations. But data are also essential for the support of social and economic developments in national contexts. I was asked to … reflect on three questions in my talk, namely: Why should we share our data? How can data sharing be organized? And what are …

(which is concerned with collaborative research). …

Matched employer-employee (panel) data sets are gaining increasing importance in the analysis of labour markets. In … collaboration with Statistics Austria we recently initiated the set up of a matched employer-employee panel data set for Austria …, which covers the years 2002-2005. The aim of the paper is to introduce the data set to a broader audience. We first present …

Ergebnisse einer Studie des DFG-geförderten Projekts EDaWaX (European Data Watch Extended) präsentiert und diskutiert, bei der …