Which code of behavior should form the basis of science and research? Replicability is definitely among these values. It is a pivotal feature of good scientific practice. Only replicable results are indeed scientific results. Studies that cannot be replicated are, strictly speaking, not...

This paper discusses how household panels in general - and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in particular - an serve as reference data for researchers collecting datasets that do not represent the full universe of the population of interest (e.g., through clinical trials, intervention...

In this article, the two chairpersons of the German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD: Rat fuer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten) give a summary of the council’s work in the years 2004 to 2006 and its future plans for improving the statistical infrastructure for economic and social research

In den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren eine Kultur des Teilens von Daten (data sharing) durchgesetzt. Das heißt, es sind zunehmend interessante Daten für Forschungszwecke verfügbar; die Herausforderung besteht heute in der Organisation dieser...

Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society's prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission)...

Der Ausgangspunkt unserer Analyse ist der Rat der Enquete-Kommission Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität des Deutschen Bundestags, das bestehende Berichts- und Sachverständigenwesen der Bundesregierung im Wege einer Evaluierung auf Redundanzen und Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten hin zu...

Cooperation between researchers, research funders and peerreviewed journals is a key approach - otherwise we will continue to hear merry-go-round rationals why science is still unscientific in the 21st century and nobody's to blame: the researchers as individuals cannot bring about change. They...