Official Microdata

Cunently there is metainformation available on the following data: European Adult Education Survey (AES), European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SLC), Statistics on Information and Communications Technologies usage in households and by individuals (ICT).

Microcensus

The Microcensus is a representative population sample containing structural population and labour market data in which one percent of all households in Germany are involved (approximately 370 000 households, 820 000 persons). The Microcensus has been carried out in the old West German states since 1957 and in the newly formed German states and East Berlin since l99l and is the largest annual household census in Europe. The scientific community has access to anonymised data of the Microcensus (Scientific Use Files). In addition to the basic files of the years 1973,1976, 1978,1980, 1982,1985, 1987 and from 1989 to 2008, there are two panel files (1996-1999,2001-2004) and a regional file (2000) available.

The Microcensus supplementary survey of 1971 (MZU 1971) contains detailed information on the occupational and social situation of the German population from 1939 through 1971. The respondents were surveyed in retrospect. The data can be analysed at the GML.

The data stock of the GML includes the Income and Expenditure Survey of the years 1962/63 and from 1978 through 2008, which can be analysed at the GESIS. Furthermore, acess is provided to metadata and program routines (microdata tools), which makes working with EVS data much easier.

The GML possesses anonymised data on the 10% sample of the Population and Profession Census from 1970 as well as on the 1% subsample. The data on the 1970 Population Census has been provided to research data centres and is obtainable there as scientific Use Files.

Several data sets from official statistics of the GDR is available at the GML. These are representative samples of cultural and social living conditions concerning income and consumption in households of the GDR during the late 1980’s.

Machine readable conditioned, multidimensional tables of the Profession Census from 1882 through 1972 (46 tables) and the Workplace Census from 1875 through 1970 (28 tables) is available at the GML. The data which is available in ASCII-format can be analysed by using the statistical program SPSS for example.

Further information about the access to data of the Federal Employment Office can be obtained here.