Micro Data at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research – The “Ifo Business Survey” Usage and Access

The Ifo Institute for Economic Research has been conducting regular business surveys since its foundation in 1949. The most well-known of Ifo's surveys is the Ifo Business Survey (ifo Konjunkturtest). The micro data of the Ifo Business Survey are accessible to external researchers on-site at Ifo as part of the Ifo DataPool, Ifo's research data centre. This article gives an introduction of the survey questions and data coverage, an over- view of past and present research with the Ifo Business Survey, and describes the data access procedure.