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The Role of Internationally Comparable Microdata
for Improvement of Economic Analysis

• Gert G. Wagner
• DIW and TU Berlin
• and
• German Council for Social and Economic Data

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Providers

• of statistical data are no longer only official
  statistical agencies
• .. but academic providers too, esprecially in the
  field of longitudinal micro data (e. g. household
  panels)

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Examples for Analyses by Means of Microdata

• OECD Studies on Earnings Mobility
• OECD Studies on Retirement
• UNESCO Studies on Child Poverty
• Studies on Happiness / National Well-Being
  Accounts
• No Studies on Behavior of Firms ???

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Databases

• LIS (Luxemborg Income Study)
• CNEF (Vross National Equivalent File)
• ECHP (European Community Household Panel)
• ESS (European Social Survey)
• Firm Data???
• Employer-Employee-Link Data Sets ?

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LIS

• Luxemborg Income Study
• Organization LIS
• Funding US Funding Agencies and  National 
  Contributions
• Access to Microdata Easy and Cheap

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CNEF

• Cross National Equivalent File
• Organization Consortium of Universities and
  Instituts (Cornell, Essex, Melbourne, DIW,
  Statistics Canada)
• Funding Universities and Institutes and some
  Funding by NIA
• Access to Microdata Easy and Cheap

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ECHP

• European Community Household Panel
• Organization EUROSTAT
• Funding National Statistical agencies and
  EUROSTAT
• Access to Microdata Difficult and Expansive

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Role of OECD ?

• Funding International Surveys ?
• Funding and Maintaining of Harmonized National
  Surveys?