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Enhancing Access to Environmental Microdata in Germany: Insights from the IAOS Conference 2010

This presentation by Markus Zwick from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany focuses on improving access to environmental microdata through Research Data Centers (RDC) in Germany. It outlines the integration of firm-level data, environmental factors, and economic analyses, emphasizing the importance of public access to research data as a part of the freedom of research. The presentation discusses varying levels of data anonymisation and the initiatives for linking economic and environmental datasets for enhanced research opportunities.

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Enhancing Access to Environmental Microdata in Germany: Insights from the IAOS Conference 2010

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  1. Access to environmental microdata in Germany IAOS Conference, Chile, 2010Markus ZwickFederal Statistical Office Germany

  2. Overview - Access to environmental data - Research Data Centers (RDC) in Germany - Official Firm Data for Germany (AFiD)

  3. Research Data Centers in Germany - interface organization between data producers and empirical science - consulting and service for the use of official microdata - possibility for access to microdata with low anonymisation level

  4. Main Goal of the Research Data Centers - better access for the empirical science to microdata which was created with public funds - this is a part of the ‚freedom of research‘ in the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany

  5. Level of Anonymisation Degree of confidentiality stronger anonymisationmethod delete direct identifier anonymisationmethod de-facto anonymised microdata fully anonymised microdata completemicrodata confidential microdata Degree of analysis potential

  6. German Microdata: Information Content and Degree of Anonymisation

  7. Access to microdata of the Statistical Office in Germany http://www.forschungsdatenzentrum.de/en/index.asp

  8. Access to European microdata http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/microdata/introduction

  9. Official Enterprise and Environmental Data for Germany (AFiD)

  10. AFiD Ambitions: • Development of an extensive treasure of data about units and enterprises in Germany • Merging of economic and environmental microdata for longitudinal analyses and • Integration of these datasets using the business register

  11. Environmental Modules Module Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal: • Analyses concerning environmental features like water usage or recycling acitivities in the establishment in connection with economic issues derived from AFiD-Panel Industrial Units • Analyses concerning product-related consumption of water and resources

  12. Environmental Modules Module Environmental Protection Expenditures: • Can be combined with the AFiD-Panels Industrial Units or Industrial Enterprises • Amount, structure and developments of environmentally related investments linked to information from the panel data sets can be examined

  13. Environmental Modules Module Environmental Protection Commodities: • Covers details to goods, construction works and services for environment protection purposes • Can be combined with the AFiD-Panels Industrial Units to analyse a multitude of economic issues

  14. ESSnet project: „Decentralised access to EU microdata sets“ - feasibility Study of setting up a network of Safe-Centres - ways of access to microdata throughout EU-countries international Partners: Office for National Statistics, UK; Statistics Netherlands Institution Nazionale di Statistica Italy; Hungarian Central Statistical Office;German Federal State, NRW Project leading: Federal Statistical Office Germany

  15. Thank you for your attention Markus ZwickFederal Statistical Office Germanymarkus.zwick@destatis.de

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