With its business surveys the Ifo Institute collects data that are of great interest for empirical economic research both in Germany and abroad.
Long time-series are provided in Excel format for facilitating further processing by the user. This service contains time-series for the Ifo Business Climate (monthly), the Ifo Business Climate Services Sector, the Credit Constraint Indicator (monthly) and the Ifo World Economic Survey (quarterly).
The extensive data stocks of the Ifo Institute's business surveys are available as aggregated results. For our product catalogue and prices please refer to Ordering information for Ifo time series.
To provide researchers, undergraduate and doctoral students with an optimal data access for their empirical work, the Ifo Institute has created a collection of key micro and macro data in its intranet, the Ifo DataPool. The Ifo Institute makes this data available to external researchers under specific security precautions.
A selection of scholarly publications using Ifo survey data is presented in the literature list: Ifo DataLit (Scientific Publications using Ifo Data) .
The Diagram Service of the Ifo Institute provides a graphic representation of external economic data on various topics.
