Post on 13-Dec-2015
Access to environmental microdata in Germany
IAOS Conference, Chile, 2010Markus ZwickFederal Statistical Office Germany
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Overview
- Access to environmental data
- Research Data Centers (RDC) in Germany
- Official Firm Data for Germany (AFiD)
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- 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
Research Data Centers in Germany
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- 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
Main Goal of the Research Data Centers
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complete
microdata
confidential microdata
de-facto anonymised microdata
delete direct identifier
anonymisationmethod
Degree of confidentiality
Degree ofanalysis potential
Level of Anonymisation
stronger anonymisationmethod
fully anonymised microdata
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German Microdata: Information Content and Degree of Anonymisation
Individual data Information content Form of access
not anonymous
full information content no access
formallyanonymous
no direct identifiers such as name and addresscomplete analysis content
controlled remote data processing
de facto anonymous
information reduced until effort of deanonymisation greater than benefitmedium analysis content
Data laboratoriesScientific Use Files
absolutely anonymous
information reduced until it can no longer be ascribed to respondents as far as it is possible to judge-low analysis content
Public Use FilesCAMPUS Files
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http://www.forschungsdatenzentrum.de/en/index.asp
Access to microdata of the Statistical Office in Germany
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http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/microdata/introduction
Access to European microdata
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Official Enterprise and Environmental Data for Germany (AFiD)
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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
AFiD
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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
Environmental Modules
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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
Environmental Modules
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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
Environmental Modules
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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
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Thank you for your attention
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