Inhaltsbereich: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
The Establishment History Panel: Outline
Content characteristics
Methodological characteristics
Data access
The detailed dataset description is available under "working tools".
Content characteristics
| Categories |
Descriptions |
| Topics |
Establishment characteristics, total number of employees, number of full-time employees, number of employees by main occupation, number of unpaid employees, number of female employees, employee age structure, division of employees by educational and vocational qualifications, division of employees by occupational status, division of employees by person group, wage structure of full-time employees
Extension file – worker flows:
Total number of inflows and outflows, number of female inflows and outflows, number of inflows and outflows from movers, number of inflows and outflows by age, number of inflows and outflows by occupational status, number of outflows by seniority
Extension file – entry and exit:
Classification of establishment entry and exit
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| Data unit |
Establishments in Germany with at least one employee liable to social security or (sice 1999) with at least one marginal part-time employee on June 30th
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| Number of cases |
Between approx. 650,000 and 1.3 million establishments p.a. (in the samples) |
| Period covered |
West-Germany: 1975 - 2008
East-Germany: 1992 - 2008 |
| Time reference |
30 June |
| Regional structure |
ferderal states (Bundeslaender)
further varibles see below "sensitive variables" |
| Regional status quo |
31/12/2008 (updated regional allocation) |
Methodological characteristics
| Categories |
Descriptions |
| Method of data collection |
50% random sample or
random sample stratified by 8 establishment sizes (0-4, 5-9, 10-19, 20-49, 50-99, 100-199, 200-499, 500 and more employees) |
| Institutions involved |
Social security agencies, Federal Employment Agency |
| Frequency of data collection |
Permanent |
| File format and size |
Stata (between 170 and 390 MB per year)
Extension file – worker flows: Stata ( 3.5 GB)
Extension file – entry and exit: Stata (entry 51 MB, exit 45 MB) |
| File architecture |
Files by year
Extension file – worker flows: One additional data file
Extension file – entry and exit: Two additional data files |
Data access
| Categories |
Descriptions |
| Data access |
On-site use and remote data access |
| Degree of anonymisation |
Weakly anonymous |
| Sensitive variables |
district (Kreis), classification of industries WZ93, 5-digit; classification of industries WZ03, 5-digit; classification of industries WZ08, 5-digit |
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