Researchers are invited to submit Open Modules for the third round of ASEP by July 31, 2026.
More information regarding submission format and evaluation criteria can be found in the call for submissions.
Call for Open Modules – ASEP Wave 3 2027
The Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) is a long-term research project offering researchers in Austria and beyond a unique analytical potential for longitudinal analyses. ASEP consists of two different sub-projects: ASEP Survey and Administrative Data Collection for the Social Sciences (ADCOL).
The ASEP Survey is designed as a long-term household panel survey collecting data on the same people every year to enable scientific research on the influence of changing social conditions as well as intra-individual changes on people living in Austria. To ensure that analyses can also be carried out in a household context, all individuals from randomly selected households are interviewed. The ASEP Survey is based on international reference surveys such as the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) or the British UK Household Longitudinal Study and so far unique in Austria.
The first wave of the main ASEP survey was conducted in 2025 with a net sample of approximately 5,400 households and 11,000 individuals. Previously, two waves were conducted during the pilot phase in 2023 and 2024.
For the ADCOL, we are preparing to provide administrative data from Statistics Austria for scientific research. This provides completely new research potentials to the scientific community by enabling analyses of data from the entire Austrian resident population for the characteristics provided. These data are also available longitudinally, making it possible to carry out panel analyses. The data from the ADCOL can further be linked with data from the ASEP Survey, other surveys of Statistics Austria, and even external data - in compliance with strict data protection guidelines.
Researchers are invited to submit Open Modules for the third round of ASEP by July 31, 2026.
More information regarding submission format and evaluation criteria can be found in the call for submissions.
Call for Open Modules – ASEP Wave 3 2027
The conception of the ASEP as a socio-economic household panel results in seven subject areas which form the content-related basis of the ASEP Survey and the ADCOL register characteristics:
ASEP Survey
Administrative Data Collection for the Social Sciences (ADCOL)
The data from the ASEP Survey is available for free download in the form of an anonymized Scientific Use File (SUF) via the Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA). In addition, researchers at accredited research institutions can acquire the data in pseudonymized form as a Full Edition (i.e. without the data aggregation required for the SUF for data protection reasons) via the microdata catalog of the Austrian Micro Data Center (AMDC).
The Administrative Data Collection for the Social Sciences (ADCOL) is also available in the AMDC microdata catalog as a Full Edition for a fee and can be linked with the survey data of the ASEP Survey. The ADCOL is already available for the years 2015 to 2022 and is published annually at the same time as the data release of the ASEP Survey for the respective following year.
Funding is provided by the Federal Ministry Women, Science and Research (BMFWF), which commissioned Statistics Austria to carry out the project. Statistics Austria is responsible for project management, survey design, survey implementation, data preparation, and quality assurance. A scientific advisory board comprising international experts advises the employees of Statistics Austria and represents the interests of the scientific community with its input. The content of the questionnaire and the selection of the register data to be made available come from seven thematic working groups made up of various representatives from the relevant scientific disciplines. The mediation between the scientific advisory board, the thematic working groups, and Statistics Austria is organized by a scientific coordination, which is currently located at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS).