Welcome to MISSY

MISSY (Microdata Information System) is an online service platform that provides structured metadata for official statistics.

MISSY includes metadata at the study and variable level as well as reports and tools for data handling and analysis. All documentation in MISSY refers to microdata available for scientific purposes.

MISSY is part of the service infrastructure of the German Microdata Lab at GESIS.

If you have any questions, please contact us by email.

German Microcensus

Scientific Use Files since 1973

Further documentation on the Microcensus in MISSY:

Microcensus Panel

Further Microcensus Files

The documentation for the GESIS Microcensus Trendfile is available on the GML website.

EU-Microdata

European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS)

European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)

Documentation was created for the following European surveys as part of completed projects. The metadata are still available in MISSY, but are no longer updated.

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