Cost Structure Surveys for Germany

Abstract

European Data WatchThis section will offer descriptions as well as discussions of data sources that may be of interest to social scientists engaged in empirical research or teaching courses that include empirical investigations performed by students.The purpose is to describe the information in the data source, to give examples of questions tackled with the data and to tel1 how to access the data for research and teaching.We will start with data from German speaking countries that allow international comparative research.While most of the data will be at the micro level (indivi duals, households, or firms), more aggregate data and meta data (for regions, industries, or nations) will be included, too.