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The article focuses on the CAMPUS Files which have been free for public use since 2004 for teaching purposes. It states that the series of the files has been provided by the Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder due to the demand for microdata for scientific training. It says that the Federal Statistical Office is planning to offer a workshop in the spring of 2008 to improve communication with users.

The article offers descriptions and discussions of data sources that may be of interest to social scientists engaged in empirical research or teaching courses that include empirical economic investigations in Germany. The decisions leading to the de facto anonymous file of the German wage and income tax statistics in 1998 is described. It also explained in detail the income tax statistics and the 10% sample obtained from it.

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