Inhaltsbereich: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
IAB Employment Samples: Outline of the Weakly anonymous Version 1975 - 2004
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, age, nationality, marital status, No. of children, school education and professional qualifications, since 1999: Place of residence: district
Employment-related characteristics:
Information on employment:
Including start and end date of employment, type of employment (especially differentiation between employment covered by social security and marginal employment), person group (e.g. employment subject to social security/ marginal part-time employment), gross earnings subject to social security, profession, 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 (3-Digit level WS73, 5-Digit WZ93 since 1999), establishment location district (“Kreise”), Establishment size, Number of employees with/ without voc. training/ university degree, Average daily wage, Year of first and last appearance in the BHP
Benefit-related characteristics:
Start and end date of benefit receipt period, type of benefit, location of responsible employment agency: district, reason for termination of benefit payment |
| Data unit |
Employees covered by social security (including marginal employment since 1999), benefit recipients |
| Number of cases |
1,360,949 individuals |
| Period covered |
West: 01/01/1975 – 31/12/2004
East: 01/01/1992 – 31/12/2004 |
| Time reference |
employment biographies on on a day-to-day basis |
| Regional structure |
Place of residence: West/ East Germany, federal states (Bundeslaender), further varibles see below "sensitive variables"
Place of work: West/ East Germany, federal states (Bundeslaender), further varibles see below "sensitive variables" |
| Territorial allocation |
31/12/2005 (for exceptions see FDZ-Datenreport 3/2007) |
Methodological characteristics
| Categories |
Descriptions |
| Method of data collection |
2 % random sample taken from the Employee and Benefit Recipient 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 |
Stata (3.7 GB) |
| File architecture |
IABS-7504.DTA (Stata file)
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Data access
| Categories |
Descriptions |
| Data access |
On-site use and subsequently remote data access |
| Degree of anonymisation |
Weakly anonymous |
| Sensitive variables |
Place of work: employment agency (Arbeitsagentur), district (Kreis); place of residence: employment agency (Arbeitsagentur), district (Kreis); nationality (non-aggregated); classification of industries WZ93, 5-digit; classification of industries WZ03, 5-digit
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