Inhaltsbereich: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
Cross-sectional survey 'Life Situation and Social Security 2005 (LSS 2005)': Outline
Content characteristics
Methodological characteristics
Data access
The detailed dataset description is available under "working tools".
Content characteristics
| Categories |
Description |
| Topics |
- General characteristics
- Demographic characteristics
- Basic household data as of December 2004
- Household income as of December 2004
- Receipt of benefits in 2004, application for benefits, responsibility of the ARGE
- Financial situation of the person surveyed in 2005, receipt of benefit and sanctions
- General school qualification: for all persons aged under 25
- School leaving qualification and date: for all persons aged 25 and over
- Household situation as of November 2005
- Household income as of November 2005
- (Pension-related questions)
- Living arrangements as of November 2005
- Support
- Questions related to measures and schemes
- Health, incapacity
- Search of job or training place, reservation wage
- Social security, self-perception within society (top-bottom), confidence in institutions, social integration
- Nationality, date of arrival, languages spoken in the family
- Social background |
| Data unit |
Recipients of unemployment or social assistance or Unemployment Benefit II (ALG II) |
| Number of cases |
LSSI: 20,832 individuals
LSSII: 3,167 individuals |
| Period covered |
11/05 – 03/06 |
| Time reference |
Survey date |
| Regional structure |
Place of residence: East and West Germany; regional comparable samples according to Rüb/Werner 2007 |
| Regional status quo |
at the date of survey |
Methodological characteristics
| Categories |
Description |
| Method of data collection |
- Recipients of unemployment or social assistance of employable age (aged 15-64, cohorts 1940-1989, one-year tolerance) who were registered as unemployed or job seekers in December 2004 and
- employable persons in need of assistance aged 15-64 (cohorts 1940-1989, one-year tolerance) who were registered as unemployed or job seekers in January 2005 and who were recipients of Unemployment Benefit II (ALG II) according to the German Social Code Book II |
| Institutions involved |
Commissioning authorities: Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Survey carried out by: Institut für Angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH (Institute for Applied Social Sciences; infas) |
| Frequency of data collection |
Unique survey |
| File format and size |
Stata (35 MB) and SPSS |
Data access
| Categories |
Description |
| Data access |
Scientific use file |
| Degree of anonymisation |
Factually anonymised |
| Sensitive variables |
None |
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