Abstract
The German Microdata Lab, located in the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA), began its work in autumn 2003. This occurred in conjunction with a nationwide reorganization of access to research data, such that five other service and research centres were set up / established almost at the same time: at the Federal Statistical Office (in Wiesbaden and Bonn), the Statistical Offices of the German states, the Federal Labour Office, the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) in Bonn and the Association of German Social Insurance Bodies (Verband Deutscher Rentenversicherungstrager, VDR). The goal is to make microdata gathered by official statistics agencies accessible and available to the empirically-oriented economic and social science research community. In what follows, we provide an overview of the historical development of access to official microdata in Germany, as well as a more specific examination of the work of the German Microdata Lab.
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