Mikrodaten im ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung: Bestand, Verwendung, Zugang

The Ifo Institute for Economic Research has been conducting regular business surveys since its foundation in 1949. Until now there was no institutionalized data access to the micro data for external researchers. The micro data are now being stored in the Ifo Datapool. Besides external data, the Ifo Datapool contains rich data sets of the four standard surveys of the institute: the business cycle test, the investment test, the innovation test, and the World Economic Survey. In this paper the coverage, documentation and access to the Ifo Datapool is described.