Inhaltsbereich: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
IAB Employment Samples: Outline of the Regional File 1975 - 1997
Content characteristics
Methodological characteristics
Data access
The detailed dataset description is available under "working tools".
Content characteristics
| Categories |
Descriptions |
| Topics |
Socio-demographic characteristics:
Individual ID, gender, year of birth, marital status, number of children, nationality (for West Germany only), school education and professional qualifications
Employment-related characteristics:
Information on employment:
Including start and end date of employment, gross earnings subject to social security, profession (117 aggregated files), occupational status (including full or part-time employment), reason for employment notification (e.g. end of or break in employment)
Information on establishment:
Establishment counter (for identification of establishment changes), industry (13 classes), establishment location (348 regions as defined by the 'Mikrozensus'*)
Benefit-related characteristics:
Start and end date of benefit receipt period, type of benefit (unemployment benefit, unemployment assistance or maintenance allowance), reason for termination of benefit payments
|
| Data unit |
Employees covered by social security, benefit recipients |
| Number of cases |
588,827 individuals |
| Period covered |
West: 01/01/1975 – 31/12/1997
East: 01/01/1992 – 31/12/1997 |
| Time reference |
employment biographies on on a day-to-day basis |
| Regional structure |
Place of work: West/East Germany, federal states (Bundeslaender), 348 regions as defined per 'Mikrozensus' on the basis of the district code number |
* The 'Mikrozensus' is an official statistical survey in Germany organized and conducted by the Federal Statistical Office.
Methodological characteristics
| Categories |
Descriptions |
| Method of data collection |
1 % random sample taken from the Employment History of the IAB, straified according to Germans and non-Germans and East and West Germany |
| Institutions involved |
Social security agencies, Federal Employment Agency |
| Frequency of data collection |
Permanent |
| File format and size |
ASCII files(525 MB) |
| File architecture |
REG7597.DAT (data file)
REG7597.VAR (variable description file for the 'TDA' statistics program)
|
Data access
| Categories |
Descriptions |
| Data access |
Scientific use file |
| Degree of anonymisation |
factually anonymous |
| Sensitive variables |
None |
Back to top