Sparen und Altersvorsorge in Deutschland In order to improve the research concerning the saving behavior of German households, the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) conducts the SAVE survey since 2001 in collaboration with TNS Infratest Sozialforschung.
It lays its main emphasis on saving behaviour, old-age provision and wealth creation in Germany.
This means that it collects information about income, wealth and old-age provision and about socio-demographic and psychological characteristics.
This cooperation lead to the linking of information about employment status and social security contributions to answers in SAVE.
The following list shows in detail which topics are covered by the questionnaire: The SAVE-dataset is made available to the public by the GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften for non-commercial use only.
The results of the SAVE study are published by scientific journals and specialist books as well as by certain types of media addressing the public.