The Panel on Household Finances as an example for the use of micro data  One example of the many sets of micro data available in the Research Data and Service Center is our Panel on Household Finances. It provides survey data on households’ balance sheets, pension incomes, employment and demographic characteristics of German households.
The second wave of the survey was conducted in 2014 and the first results of this second wave will be published at the beginning of next year. Similar panels are now surveyed in all member states of the euro area under the guidance of the ECB, allowing empirical analyses to exploit variations not only over time but also across countries.