Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

BA Employment Panel (BAP)

The BA Employment Panel is generated from the quarterly employment statistics of the Federal Employment Agency since 1998. The employment statistics cover all employees in Germany who are subject to social security; from this sampling frame  2% quarterly samples are drawn[, the reference date being the last day of each quarter].

Apart from information on employees liable to social security, the BA Employment Panel has details on unemployment and participation in measures of active labour market policy. Additionally, marginal part-time employment has been included since 1999. Finally, the data contain a few characteristics on establishments.

The BA Employment Panel is available as a scientific use file and in a ‘weakly anonymous’ version. For details please refer to the outline of the BA Employment Panel.