Ifo Time Series

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 in the Services (monthly),
the Credit Constraint Indicator (monthly),
the Ifo Employment Barometer (monthly),
the Ifo Business Climate for Eastern Germany (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 on Ifo time series.