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Building on Progress Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences RatSWD German. Data Forum RatSWD (ed.) German. Data Forum (ed.) RatSWD German. Data Forum The publication provides a comprehensive compendium of the current state of Germany’s research infrastructure in the social, economic, and RatSWD RatSWD Rat für. Sozial- und behavioural sciences. In addition, the book presents detailed discus- WirtschaftsDaten German. Data Forum sions of the current needs of empirical researchers in these fields and C 30 opportunities for future development. Building M 0 BuildingY 0 on Progress K 90 The book contains 68 advisory reports by more than 100 internation- on ally recognized authors from a wide range of fields and recommenda- Expanding the Research Infrastructure tions by the German Data Forum (RatSWD) on how to improve the Progress C 0 for theM 90Social, Economic, and research infrastructure so as to create conditions ideal for making Ger- RatSWD Y 80 Rat für. KSozial- 0 und many’s social, economic, and behavioral sciences more innovative and Behavioral Sciences internationally competitive. WirtschaftsDaten C 30 The German Data Forum (RatSWD) has discussed the broad spectrum M 0 of issues covered by these advisory reports extensively, and has de- Y 0 veloped general recommendations on how to expand the research in- C 45 C 20 C 8 K 90 frastructure to meet the needs of scholars in the social and economic M 30 M 10 M 4 Y 80 Y 33 Y 12 sciences. vol ume 2 K 5 K 0 vol K ume 0 2 Edited by the German Data Forum C 0 C 0 M 0 M 0 C 0 (Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten, RatSWD). Y 0 Y 0 K 50 K 15 M 90 Y 80 K 0 ISBN 978-3-940755-58-2 C 45 C 20 C 8 M 30 M 10 M 4 Y 80 Y 33 Y 12 K 5 K 0 K 0 C 0 C 0 M 0 M 0 Y 0 Y 0 K 50 K 15 Building on Progress Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences Building on Progress Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences edited by the German Data Forum (RatSWD) Vol. 2 Budrich UniPress Ltd. Opladen & Farmington Hills, MI 2010 You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from Die Deutsche Bibliothek (The German Library) © 2010 by Budrich UniPress Ltd. Opladen & Farmington Hills www.budrich-unipress.eu ISBN 978-3-940755-58-2 2 Vols. in slipcase © These volumes are published by Budrich UniPress and are published under the Creative Commons licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/de/deed.en_GB You are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work as long as you tribute it to the original author/editors. No commercial use, or changes unless approved by Budrich UniPress. Both volumes may be downloaded free of charge at the Budrich UniPress website www.budrich-unipress.com The two volumes in slipcase may be ordered from your local bookseller or directly from the Budrich UniPress. Budrich UniPress Ltd. Stauffenbergstr. 7. 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USA www.budrich-unipress.eu Jacket illustration by Walburga Fichtner, Cologne, Germany Printed in Europe on acid-free paper by paper & tinta, Warszaw, Poland Table of Contents: Volume 1: PREFACE BY THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (BMBF)..................................................................i-iii EDITORS ...................................................................................................... 9 PREFACE BY THE GERMAN DATA FORUM (RATSWD)..................... 11 RECOMMENDATIONS .............................................................................. 17 EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES........................................................................ 41 ADVISORY REPORTS ............................................................................... 95 TOWARDS AN IMPROVED RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: FUTURE DEMANDS AND NEEDS FOR ACTION ............................................................................... 97 1. Providing a Permanent Institutional Guarantee for the German Information Infrastructure...Johann Hahlen ....................97 2. The European Dimension...Klaus Reeh ......................................115 3. The Role of the German Research Foundation...Eckard Kämper and Manfred Nießen ........................................................127 4. Providing Data on the European Level...Peter Elias ..................139 5. Infrastructure for High-Quality and Large-Scale Surveys. Cooperation between Academic Research and Private-Sector Agencies...Peter Ph. Mohler and Bernhard von Rosenbladt.............155 6. The Availability of Market Research Data and its Potential for Use in Empirical Social and Economic Research...Erich Wiegand .....................................................................................175 PROGRESS SINCE 2001 AND CURRENT STATE.................................... 189 1. The Recommendations of the 2001 KVI Report and Their Realizations up to 2008...Gabriele Rolf-Engel.............................189 2. Access to Microdata from Official Statistics...Stefan Bender, Ralf Himmelreicher, Sylvia Zühlke and Markus Zwick.....................215 3. Publicly Financed Survey Data: Access and Documentation Wolfgang Jagodzinski and Christof Wolf........................................231 3 4. Teaching and Statistical Training...Ulrich Rendtel .....................251 5. e- Infrastructure for the Social Sciences...Ekkehard Mochmann ..................................................................................265 CURRENT STATE OF AND FUTURE DEMANDS IN DIFFERENT FIELDS............................................................................... 287 I. (NEW) DATA TYPES AND THEIR POTENTIALS .................................. 287 1. Macroeconomic Data...Ulrich Heilemann ...................................289 2. Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Surveys...Jürgen Schupp and Joachim Frick .............................................................................303 3. Geodata...Tobia Lakes.................................................................325 4. Regional Data...Gerd Grözinger and Wenzel Matiaske ..................341 5. Genetically Sensitive Sample Designs...Frank M. Spinath..........353 6. Biological Variables in Social Surveys...Rainer Schnell.............367 7. Administrative Transaction Data...Julia Lane ............................383 8. Transaction Data: Commercial Transaction Surveys and Test Market Data....Bernhard Engel....................................................401 9. Time Use and Time Budgets....Joachim Merz.............................413 II. METHODS ........................................................................................ 451 1. Survey Methodology: International Developments...Frauke Kreuter .......................................................................................453 2. Improving Research Governance through Use of the Total Survey Error Framework...Marek Fuchs ....................................471 3. Metadata....Arofan Gregory, Pascal Heus and Jostein Ryssevik.......487 4. Paradata...Frauke Kreuter and Carolina Casas-Cordero ................509 5. Record Linkage from a Technical Point of View...Rainer Schnell........................................................................................531 6. Experiments, Surveys, and the Use of Representative Samples as Reference Data...Thomas Siedler and Bettina Sonnenberg .................................................................................547 7. Experimental Economics...Simon Gächter..................................563 8. Experience Sampling...Michaela Riediger...................................581 9. Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences...Edward Castronova and Matthew Falk..........................595 4 10. Qualitative Interviewing of Respondents in Large Representative Surveys...Olaf Groh-Samberg and Ingrid Tucci ..........................................................................................607 Volume 2: III. DATA PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ETHICS ........................... 627 1. Data Protection and Statistics – A Dynamic and Tension- Filled Relationship...Peter Schaar ..............................................629 2. Record Linkage from the Perspective of Data Protection... Rainer Metschke ..........................................................................643 3. New Methods in Human Subjects Research: Do We Need a New Ethics?...Karsten Weber......................................................657 4. Does Germany Need a (New) Research Ethics for the Social Sciences?...Claudia Oellers and Eva Wegner ................................673 IV. FIELDS .................................................................................... 687 1. Migration and Demography......................................................687 1.1 Migration and Globalization...Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann.............................................................................689 1.2 Migration and Statistics...Sonja Haug ......................................703 1.3 Internal Migration...Andreas Farwick .......................................723 1.4 Fertility and Mortality Data for Germany...Michaela Kreyenfeld and Rembrandt Scholz...............................................739 2. Measuring Competencies..........................................................753 2.1 Measuring Cognitive Ability...Roland H. Grabner and Elsbeth Stern.............................................................................753
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