The German SAVE study : design and results

Abstract

This book has three parts: scientific background, design, and results. We begin by describing the intellectual background of the SAVE survey and the strategic selections of topics to be covered. The second part is devoted to the design of SAVE: the often unpleasant choices between the researchers’ desire to measure everything and the respondents’ tiredness to answer very personal questions. Details are relegated to a technical appendix. The third part is the longest and delivers an overview of the central results drawn from the SAVE panel: How Germans save, and how this has changed from 2001 through 2007.