This opinion by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) aims to inform the European Parliament’s position concerning the legislative proposal for a Regulation on strengthening the security of identity cards of European Union (EU) citizens and of residence documents issued to EU...

This opinion by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) aims to inform the European Parliament’s position concerning the legislative proposal for a Regulation on strengthening the security of identity cards of European Union (EU) citizens and of residence documents issued to EU...

The present study was conducted as part of a wider evidence gathering by the Commission on geo-blocking as a barrier to online cross-border trade in the European Digital Single Market. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of geo-blocking...

"Die seit 1973 aufgebaute Beschäftigtenstatistik ist neben der Volks- und Berufszählung, dem Mikrozensus und der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS) eine der für die Sozialforschung wichtigsten Datenquellen der deutschen Sozialstatistik. Angesichts der Bedeutung, die die...

"Representative longitudinal data for German firms (establishments or enterprises) that can be used for scientific analyses are mainly from two sources, the IAB Establishment Panel and the AFiD-Panel based on surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. This paper compares the data from these...

Der Verkauf von Non Performing Loans (NPLs) hat sich innerhalb von wenigen Jahren als ein bedeutendes Instrument zur Restrukturierung des Bankengeschäfts in Deutschland etabliert. Die vorliegende Arbeit gibt auf transparente Weise den aktuellen Stand wieder, welche Formen von NPLs existieren,...

"Providing scientific use files for business surveys is a difficult task. Due to smaller populations, higher sampling rates, and skewed distributions disclosure risks are much higher than for household surveys. Simple measures like coarsening are not sufficient to protect the data. The aim of...

"Im IAB wird derzeit die Anonymisierbarkeit von Paneldaten zur Erstellung von Scientific-Use-Files untersucht. Dabei wurden mithilfe der Multiplen Imputation synthetische Datensätze der Erhebungswelle 2007 des IAB-Betriebspanels erzeugt. Dieses Vorgehen stellt sicher, dass einerseits einzelne...

"For micro-datasets considered for release as scientific or public use files, statistical agencies have to face the dilemma of guaranteeing the confidentiality of survey respondents on the one hand and offering sufficiently detailed data on the other hand. For that reason a variety of methods to...