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Access to and Documentation of Publicly Financed Survey Data

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Authors:
Wolfgang Jagodzinski, Christof Wolf
Number:
084/2009

Abstract
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 funded projects; (3) survey data collected in research projects funded by the Federal State and the Länder (Ressortforschung); (4) Population and Household surveys from national and international statistical agencies. For each of these types of data we describe the current situation and present recommendations for future developments.

Keywords: Survey data, data access, data documentation, data archive