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The German SAVE survey : documentation and methodology

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The purpose of this document is to describe methodological details of the German SAVE survey and to provide users of SAVE with all necessary information for working with the publicly available SAVE dataset.

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  • Schunk, Daniel, 2007. "The German SAVE survey : documentation and methodology," Papers 07-08, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
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