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Towards an Improved Statistical Infrastructure

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Towards an Improved Statistical Infrastructure. . Summary Report of the Commission set up by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) to improve the statistical infrastructure in cooperation with the scientific community and official statistics. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 121(3), 443-470. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.121.3.443
"Towards an Improved Statistical Infrastructure. Summary Report of the Commission set up by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) to improve the statistical infrastructure in cooperation with the scientific community and official statistics. " Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 121.3, 2001, 443-470. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.121.3.443
(2001): Towards an Improved Statistical Infrastructure, in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, vol. 121, iss. 3, 443-470, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.121.3.443

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Towards an Improved Statistical Infrastructure

Summary Report of the Commission set up by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) to improve the statistical infrastructure in cooperation with the scientific community and official statistics

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 121 (2001), Iss. 3 : pp. 443–470

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Towards an Improved Statistical Infrastructure. Summary Report of the Commission set up by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) to improve the statistical infrastructure in cooperation with the scientific community and official statistics 443
Major results of stocktaking 443
Assignment of the Commission 443
Society's demand for scientific-statistical information 444
Fulfilling the data requirements in various fields of information 444
Overview of the informational infrastructure in Germany 445
Cooperation and communication of official statistics with the scientific community 445
Specifying data collection and processing programs 447
Archiving 447
Educational deficits at and outside of universities 447
Scientists' access to (micro)data. Legal frame in Germany 448
International exchange of data and the Safe Harbor principle 450
Organizational and technical facilities and de facto access to aggregated data in Germany 451
Organizational and technical facilities and de facto access to microdata in Germany 451
(1) Scientists receive \"de facto anonymized\" microdata 451
(2) Scientists provide their own programs for analyzing purposes 453
(3) Scientists analyze non-anonymized microdata 453
(4) Specialized analyses of statistical material commissioned by the scientific community 453
Access to microdata in non-commercial research 454
Using commercial data 454
Actual situation of data linkage in Germany 455
Recommendations of the Commission 456
Improved cooperation between science and statistics is necessary for data users and data producers 456
Participation of the scientific community in developing survey and processing programs 457
Priorities in continuing and developing important statistics 458
Supporting research on data collection, processing and archiving 460
Higher education and training 461
Economic aspects of data access 462
Access to aggregated data 463
Microdata access and data protection 463
Using international microdata 465
Demand for services and service agency for microdata 466
Data linkage 467
Confidentiality of research data 467