DOI: 10.5164/IAB.IABSE0021.de.en.v1
Summary
The IAB Job Vacancy Survey is an establishment survey covering the entire unfilled labour demand in Germany. It identifies the entire number of vacancies on the German labour market, including those vacancies that are not reported to the Federal Employment Agency (FEA), Germany’s public employment service. Furthermore, it offers information on lapsed vacancies and on employers’ perceptions of recent labour market policy developments.
For detailed information as well as a current list of publications please refer to the IAB Job Vacancy Survey’s web site.
Dataset Description and List of Variables
The data set description includes the current data report, the variable-time-matrix, the codebooks and the frequency tables.
German
- DOI: 10.5164/IAB.FDZD.2406.de.v1
- FDZ-Datenreport 06/2024 (pdf)
- Auszählungen (zip)
- Variablen-Zeitpunkte-Matrix (Excel)
- Codepläne (zip)
English
- DOI: 10.5164/IAB.FDZD.2406.en.v1
- FDZ-Datenreport 06/2024 (pdf)
- Frequencies (zip)
- Variable-Time-Matrix (Excel)
- Codebooks (zip)
Data Quality Control
The FDZ-Methodenreport 05/2022 (pdf) contains a data quality concept due to deviant interviewer behavior in the IAB Job Vacancy Survey.
Data Access
On-site Use and Remote Data Access
Test data
Test data of the IAB Job Vacancy Survey are intended to enable you to write and test evaluation programs. The test data are generated by means disassociation of the original data. They are not eligible for analysis.
The test data include all variables of the original data with the same variable name, variable label and value label. Variables which are particularly sensitive under the current data protection legislation are not included in the test data.
Test data for Stata: Testdaten.zip
Other working tools
- Bossler, Mario; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Kubis, Alexander; Küfner, Benjamin; Lochner, Benjamin (2020): The IAB Job Vacancy Survey: design and research potential. In: Journal for Labour Market Research, Vol. 54, No. 1, Art. 13. DOI: 10.1186/s12651-020-00278-6
- Brenzel, Hanna; Czepek, Judith; Kiesl, Hans; Kriechel, Ben; Kubis, Alexander; Moczall, Andreas; Rebien, Martina; Röttger, Christof; Szameitat, Jörg; Warning, Anja; Weber, Enzo (2016): Revision of the IAB job vacancy survey * backgrounds, methods and results. (IAB-Forschungsbericht, 04/2016 (en)), Nürnberg, 61 S.
- Datenkompendium: Kernindikatoren der IAB-Erhebung des Gesamtwirtschaftlichen Stellenangebots ('Data Compendium – Main indicators of the German Job Vacancy Survey of the IAB') FDZ-Methodenreport 03/2013 (pdf, only in German)
- Additional variables from the Establishment-History-Panel (BHP):
Selected establishment characteristics from the Establishment History Panel (BHP) as well as BHP extension files can be merged to the IAB Job Vacancy Survey after conformation of the request form. The variables of the BHP which are available for merging are listed in the document FDZ-Datenreport 08/2022 (pdf).
Further working tools such as publications on working with the FDZ data can be found under key working tools of the FDZ.
Citation
Researchers working with the IAB Job Vacancy Survey are obligated to acknowledge the data base and its documentation within their publications, including the DOI, by using the following reference:
Data:
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Kubis, Alexander; Börschlein, Erik-Benjamin; Diegmann, André; Pirralha, André; Pohlan, Laura; Popp, Martin; Vetter, Franka (2024): "German Job Vacancy Survey of the IAB – Version 0021 v1". Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). DOI: 10.5164/IAB.IABSE0021.de.en.v1
The data access was provided via on-site use at the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and/or remote data execution.
Data documentation:
- Börschlein, Erik-Benjamin; Diegmann, André; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Kubis, Alexander; Pirralha, André; Pohlan, Laura; Popp, Martin; Vetter, Franka (2024): IAB-Stellenerhebung: Betriebsbefragung zu Stellenangebot und Besetzungsprozessen, Wellen 2000 bis 2021 mit Folgequartalen von 2006 bis 2022. FDZ-Datenreport, 06/2024 (de), Nürnberg. DOI: 10.5164/IAB.FDZD.2406.de.v1
- Börschlein, Erik-Benjamin; Diegmann, André; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Kubis, Alexander; Pirralha, André; Pohlan, Laura; Popp, Martin; Vetter, Franka (2024): The IAB Job Vacancy Survey: Establishment survey on labour demand and recruitment processes, waves 2000 to 2021 and subsequent quarters 2006 to 2022. FDZ-Datenreport, 06/2024 (en), Nuremberg. DOI: 10.5164/IAB.FDZD.2406.en.v1
According to the FDZ Data Usage Agreement, any type of publication resulting from work with FDZ data must be reported to the FDZ by email at the latest one month after publication. The notification must include an electronic version of the printed version or, after publication, a reprint or a copy of the publication free of charge.