Inhaltsbereich: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
IAB Establishment Panel: Outline Original Data
Content characteristics
Methodological characteristics
Data access
The detailed dataset description is available under "working tools".
Content characteristics
| Category |
Description |
| Topics |
Development of employment, business policy and development, investments, in-house innovations, government subsidies, personnel structure, vocational training and apprenticeship places, recruitments and dismissals, personnel search, wages, working hours, training programmes, general company information
Main focus of each wave:
1994: Contact with the employment agency
1997: Business start-ups; recruitment of skilled labour
1998: Investments abroad
1999: Progressive retirement and pre-retirement; share of turnover in environmentally protective goods; revision of the DM 630 job regulation
2000: Skilled worker demand; elderly employees; financial incentives for employees
2001: Computer and Internet equipment; staff shares and profit-sharing
2002: Elderly employees; health protection; equal opportunities; contact with the employment agency
2003: Operational flexibility
2004: Personnel structure (senior management), working hours
2005: Environmentally protective goods, personnel recruitment
2006: Job security and locational security of industries
2007: Future staffing for qualified employees
2008: Job security and locational security of industries, equal opportunities
2009: Types of employment, vocational training and apprenticeship
2010: Business policy and development in the financial crisis |
| Data unit |
Establishments
|
| Number of cases |
Between 4,265 and approx. 16,000 establishments per year |
| Period covered |
West Germany: 1993 to 2010
East Germany: 1996 to 2010 |
| Time reference |
Reference date: 30th June |
| Regional structure |
East/West Germany, German federal states (Bundeslaender), further varibles see below "sensitive variables" |
Methodological characteristics
| Category |
Description |
| Method of data collection |
representative random sample, stratifed according to establishment size, industry and federal state |
| Institutions involved |
Commissioning authorities: IAB department 'Establishments and Employment', Federal Ministries and Regional Directorates
Survey carried out by: TNS Infratest Sozialforschung GmbH in cooperation with SÖSTRA (Institute for Socio-economic Structural Analysis)
Partner institutes
|
| Frequency of data collection |
Annual questionnaire |
| File format and size |
STATA; all datasets max. 150 MB |
| File architecture |
Data file per year |
Data access
| Category |
Description |
| Data access |
Remote data access, on-site use |
| Degree of anonymisation |
weakly anonymous |
| Sensitive variables |
districts, type of local authorities, classification of industries 1993 (waves 2000, 2001, 2003 5-digit, wave 2002 3-digit WZ93), classification of industries 2003 (from wave 2004 WZ03, 5-digit), classification of industries 2008 (from wave 2009 WZ08, 5-digit) |
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