Das Forschungsdatenzentrum der BA im IAB

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The detailed dataset description is available under 'working tools'.

Content characteristics
Categories	Description
Topics	Individual characteristics: socio-demographic information, retrospective employment biography since January 2006, further vocational training since January 2006, further training not undertaken, job satisfaction, expectations, questions about the respondent and his/her household, cost-value ratio Establishment characteristics: establishment size class, industry, federal state, willingness to invest
Data unit	Employees covered by social security
Number of cases	1st wave: 6404 2nd wave: 4894 3rd wave: 4930
Period covered	January 2006 to late 2009
Time reference	Cross-sectional and longitudinal data
Regional structure	East Germany (Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) West Germany (Bavaria, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia)
Territorial allocation	as of the respective reference data

Methodological characteristics
Categories	Description
Method of data collection	Sample of employees from establishments in the IAB Establishment Panel, which was stratified according to establishment size class, industry and rate of investment
Institutions involved	RWI-Essen (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.), DIE (German Institute for Adult Education), IAB (Institute for Employment Research ) and infas GmbH (Institute for Applied Social Sciences)
Frequency of data collection	Annual survey
File format and size	STATA (6.5 MB), SPSS (8.3 MB)
File architecture	well1_org_suf, well1_quer_suf, well1_bio_suf, well1_wb_suf, well2_org_suf, well2_quer_v2_suf, well2_bio_v2_suf, well2_wb_suf, well1_bio_korr_suf.dta, well1_quer_korr_suf.dta, well2_bio_v2_suf.dta, well2_org_suf.dta, well2_quer_v2_suf.dta, well2_wb_suf.dta, well3_org_suf.dta; well3_quer_suf.dta;, well3_wb_suf.dta, well3_bio_suf.dta well3_bio_korr_suf.dta