Links to (German) Data

German Administrative Data

German Census 2011 / 2022
https://www.zensus2011.de/
https://www.zensus2022.de/
• Aggregated on city-level
• Data on religious beliefs, demographics, job, …
• Max. 5 variables at the same time

Regional Database Germany
https://www.regionalstatistik.de/genesis/online
• Data aggregated on NUTS3 level
• Data on elections, education, social services, companies, …

INKAR
https://www.inkar.de/
• Data aggregated on NUTS3 level
• Data on social indicators (unemployment, …), housing, demography, traffic, …

Official German Shape-Files
https://gdz.bkg.bund.de/index.php/default/digitale-geodaten/verwaltungsgebiete.html
• Shapefiles on city and NUTS levels

(German) Geolocations
http://www.geonames.org/export/
• E.g. longitude and latitude of cities worldwide

Labour Market Data by IAB
https://fdz.iab.de/en/our-data-products/ • Admininstrative data on `customers’ of Employment Agencies, social security data, …
• 2% Sample SIAB of employer-employee matched data set can be matched with AKM effects from complete data • many linkages to surveys (SOEP, LPP, Betriebspanel) available

Micro Census
https://www.forschungsdatenzentrum.de/de/haushalte/mikrozensus
• Similar to Current Population Survey: 1% sample of German households, though cross-sectional
• Data on wages and demographics
• Other admin. statistics on firms, federal demographics, … on the webpage of the FDZ

Deutsches Zentrum für Hoschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung DZHW
https://metadata.fdz.dzhw.eu/de/search?page=1&size=10&type=data_packages
• Several (panel) data sets on university students and graduates

Nationales Bildungspanel NEPS
https://www.neps-data.de/Datenzentrum/Daten-und-Dokumentation • Several panel data sets on student / graduate cohorts (linked to IAB matched EE data)

Non-official access to federal API’s
https://bund.dev/
• Documents several API by German ministries and other official authorities
• E.g. weather data, traffic jams, job openings, air quality …

German Pension Insurance Data
https://www.eservice-drv.de/FdzPortalWeb/dispcontent.do?id=main_fdz_forschung&chmenu=ispvwNavEntriesByHierarchy27
• Different samples from German pension insurance data • Some include employer identifier & other information from IAB • Linkable to G-SOEP

German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training
https://www.bibb.de/de/26982.php
• Several surveys of firms, students, workers on vocational education and on-the-job training • German website lists more data sources!

Further Data Sets by the German Statistical Office
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Methods/Quality/QualityReports/_node.html#_9bcuj7jmi
• Trade, Earnings, Collective Bargaining Agreements, …

German Survey Data

(German / European) Structure of Earnings Survey
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/microdata/structure-of-earnings-survey
• Employer-Employee matched labour data, available for many European countries • Large survey on firm level every 4 years, participation mandatory

(G-)SOEP (Socioeconomic Panel)
https://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.678568.en/research_data_center_soep.html
http://companion.soep.de/index.html
• Large panel (n>30,000), started in the 1980’s, all kinds of microdata
• Special surveys, e.g. of refugees, COVID-19 related, …

ALLBUS
https://www.gesis.org/en/allbus/download
• German representative survey, n=3,000, starting in 1990 every two years randomly drawn
• Core questions and changeing questionnaires (e.g. on health)

Pairfam
https://www.pairfam.de/
• Panel on cohorts (‘71-‘73, …, ‘01-‘03; with ca n=3,000 each) on family / partnership

Other German panel studies
https://paneldata.org/

List of European Data Sources
https://webs.uab.cat/incasi/en/european-data-sources/

A great resource for further data on the German labour market is the FDZ-Methodenreport ‘‘Vorbereitende Forschung für die zweite Evaluationsrunde Mindestlöhne’’ [in German] https://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2014/MR_03-14.pdf