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 …

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 …

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 …

question is how to store and manage data in a way that meets the increasing demand for secondary data analysis in both … quantitative and qualitative social science research. The first two sections focus mainly on aspects of data documentation, in … projects is to maintain the understandability and informative value of research data. In the third section a virtual research …