Forschungsdatenzentrum des LIfBi
Also known as FDZ-LIfBi · Forschungsdatenzentrum des Leibniz-Instituts für Bildungsverläufe · Research Data Center at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories
The Research Data Center at LIfBi (Forschungsdatenzentrum, FDZ-LIfBi) is primarily responsible for the user-friendly preparation of survey and test data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) and its provision to researchers in the form of Scientific Use Files. Data from other panel studies such as ReGES are also part of the research data infrastructure. The FDZ-LIfBi offers comprehensive documentation of the data material in German and English. It ensures secure and flexible data access via several options (download, remote, on-site). Further services are contract and authorization management, regular data trainings and workshops, annual user conferences, the semi-annual newsletter…
Getting access
Registration required Restricted (registration, institutional membership)
- How to apply
- Not yet verified — we don’t publish a route we haven’t checked.
- Eligibility
- Institutional affiliation or membership required
Summarised from a registry — the exact application route is not yet verified.
Open access Open
- How to apply
- Not yet verified — we don’t publish a route we haven’t checked.
Summarised from a registry — the exact application route is not yet verified.
About this database
| Website | https://www.lifbi.de/en-us/Start/Data-Services |
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| Subjects | Humanities and Social Sciences · Social and Behavioural Sciences · Education Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · Economics · Empirical Social Research · Statistics and Econometrics |
| Last updated | 2026-09-12 |