The topic of this paper is access to and documentation of survey data financed through public funds. We distinguish between four types of publicly financed survey data: (1) Academic survey data from the national or international research infrastructures; (2) data from DFG projects or similarly...

Mass media are defind as media which have their proper program and constitute their own audience. Mass media research, accordingly, deals with the production of programs and the consumption of the audience. For both perspectives, research topics are justified, data sources are introduced, and...

This paper is a contribution to the methodological and technical discussion of social research infrastructure. The main 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...

Mit der Sekundäranalyse qualitativer Interviewdaten werden aufgrund der Möglichkeit, bestehende Forschungsdaten aus einem neuen inhaltlichen und theoretischen Blickwinkeln betrachten zu können, zahlreiche Potenziale – insbesondere für Zeitvergleiche, Trendanalysen und für breit angelegte...

Statistiken sind zunächst lediglich systematische Anordnungen von Zahlen. Sie bedürfen der Interpretation und haben inhärente Grenzen, wenn es darum geht, soziale Phänomene zu begreifen. Arbeitskämpfe sind in dieser Hinsicht keine Ausnahme. Zugleich gilt, dass ohne annähernd verlässliche...

With open banking, consumers take greater control over their own financial data and share it at their discretion. Using a rich set of loan application data from the largest German FinTech lender in consumer credit, this paper studies what characterizes borrowers who share data and assesses its...

The Ifo Institute for Economic Research has been conducting regular business surveyssince its foundation in 1949. The most well-known of Ifo's surveys is the Ifo BusinessSurvey (ifo Konjunkturtest). The micro data of the Ifo Business Survey are accessible toexternal researchers on-site at Ifo as...

Based on the hypothesis that microdata are of crucial importance for internationally competitive economic research and scientific advice in economic and social policy, the authors develop various proposals for an improved data supply for empirical work in Germany. Present shortcomings are mainly...

International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...