DIW Berlin offers a wide range of databases which our indicators and publications are based on.
The DIW Berlin issues the monthly DIW Economic Barometer (in German only), the quarterly DIW Economic Outlook, and participate in the Joint Economic Forecast, the spring and fall reports of the leading economic research institutes. The Team analyses the consequences of economic policy interventions, such as the real economic effects as well as the distributional effects of fiscal and monetary policy stimuli.
More on the website of the Forecasting and Economic Policy team
DIW Berlin houses the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the largest and longest-running multidisciplinary household surveys worldwide. Every year, approximately 30,000 people in 20,000 households are interviewed for the SOEP study. The survey has been conducted since 1984. The SOEP is also a research-driven infrastructure based at DIW Berlin. The SOEP team prepares survey data for use by researchers around the globe, and team members use the data in research on various topics. Studies based on SOEP data examine diverse aspects of societal change. As part of the Leibniz Association, the SOEP receives funding from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and from Germany’s state (Länder) governments.
Please refer to the SOEP Service Pages for further information.
In the annual DIW Women Executives Barometer, we document the share of women on the executive and supervisory boards of the largest companies in Germany. We separately analyse different groups of companies, among which there are the 200 companies with the highest turnover in Germany outside the financial sector (top 200 companies), all companies listed in the German stock index DAX (DAX companies) as well as the four DAX subgroups (DAX-30/40, MDAX, SDAX and TecDax), all companies with federal participation, the 100 largest banks and the 60 largest insurance companies. Moreover, we separately document the share of women on the executive and supervisory boards for companies that have to comply to the gender quota for supervisory boards (since 2016) and the minimum participation requirement for executive boards (since 2022).
Please refer to the Women Executives Barometer for further information.
The Ampel-Monitor Energiewende is currently based on 15 indicators for renewable electricity generation, renewable heat, electromobility, hydrogen and energy consumption. The respective government targets are visualized with the help of interactive graphics and regularly compared with the current status actually achieved. A selection of graphs is shown on this page. For illustration purposes, a linear progression between the status at the beginning of the current legislative period and the respective target year is usually shown, as the exact paths to achieve these targets were often not specified in concrete terms by the government.
Please refer to the Ampel Monitor page for further information.
The construction volume comprises all domestic construction work in nominal and real terms. The data on the construction volume are regularly updated. The data collection is currently supported by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning in the framework of the research initiative "Zukunft Bau" (Future Construction) of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building.
Transport in Figures is an annual report compiled by DLR Institute of Transport Research and DIW Berlin on behalf of the German Ministry of Transport, Building, and Urban Affairs. The compendium presents statistical data on numerous aspects of the German transport sector.