Data access and data protection

Procedure for requesting PHF data I) Required documentation II) Research data request form III) Certification document IV) Data transfer V) Encrypting documents with 7 zip Procedure for requesting PHF data Use of the anonymised PHF data can be requested for research projects. To do this, researchers must complete an application form and send it to the Research Data and Service Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank, along with other documents. The data must not be used for any commercial purposes. The research data file is anonymised with the aim of rendering re-identification of households or persons impossible. Besides deleting all personal identifiers, the process involves recoding or grouping and top-coding of some variables, especially coarsening any regional information. Job and employment descriptions are coarsened to the second digit of ISCO and the first digit of NACE, respectively. Most values denominated in euro, such as variables for income, assets, liabilities etc., are random-rounded. Age is top-coded at 90. Ages 70+ are disturbed by small stochastic error terms. I) Required documentation Completed research data request form (for details see section II)Curriculum vitae Completed and signed certification document (for details see section III)It may be useful to include other documents relating to the research project or any third-party funding of the project. II) Research data request form The request form for data access can be downloaded from this website. The form...