Publication An informational infrastructure has emerged in Germany - the Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office

The information infrastructure in Germany has progressed significantly since the end of the 1990s although the Covid-19 crisis has shown recently that it still has considerable deficits. The insight that individual data have a value and the demand for official microdata on the part of empirical researchers led to the establishment of the Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office in 2001. The article describes its development over the past 20 years and explains the envisaged remote access system which will provide improved data access for data users.

Authors: Hanna Brenzel, Markus Zwick

Article published in "WISTA – Scientific Journal", 6-2022