Support and resources

The Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance offers comprehensive support and resources for researchers in order to assist them with accessing the data and performing analyses.

Advice and support

Specialist advice

Our team offers comprehensive support in the planning and implementation of your research project. We advise you on selecting appropriate datasets, submitting applications and defining a suitable methodological approach.

Technical support 

Our team is available to answer questions on data processing and security, particularly in the use of guest researcher workstations and remote access.

Conferences and workshops

Conferences and workshops are organised at regular intervals. These provide a platform for open exchange between data users and employees of the FDZ-RV

Resources

Documentation and handbooks

We provide you with documentation, code plans and handbooks that help you to understand the structure and content of the datasets and use them effectively.

 

Software tools 

We offer access to software tools such as SPSS, Stata, R and Python in order to support your analyses.