The Emplyment Survey for East Germany 1989 (Beschäftigtenerhebung 1989, BTE1989) is the last employment survey for the German Democratic Republic (GDR) before German re-unification.
The Emplyment Survey for East Germany 1989 (Beschäftigtenerhebung 1989, BTE1989) is referenced on 09/30/1989 and provides detailed information on the scope and structure of emplyoment in the former GDR along the dimensions gender, age, regions and industries. This survey represents an important reference as well as a statistical basis for the measurement of the impact on the employment structure caused by the extensive transformation process in the course of the German re-unification.
Outline
The detailed dataset description is available under working Tools.
Category | Description |
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Topics | structuring characteristics: type of establishment, districts, DDR-areas, federal states,, employment agencies, type of ownership, division of economic activity, industry, class of economic activity, group of economic activity, type of region counting block, weighting of employment per establishment: in each case total, female and male: employees, permanently employees, blue- and white-collar employee, members of the cooperative, permanently assisting employees, part-time employees, employees at the age of retirement, not permanently employees, year of birth |
Data unit | Employees of East Germany (DDR) |
Number of cases | 8.545.398 employees (based on calculations by IAB) on September 30, 1989 |
Period covered | September 30, 1989 |
Time reference | Survey period. Reference date September 30, 1989 |
Regional structure | Areas and employment offices broken down by associated districts |
Regional status quo | East Germany (DDR) 1989 |
Category | Description |
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Method of data collection | census |
Frequency of data collection | onetime |
File organisation, format and size | The data is stored in one file: BTE1989.dta, STATA (8 MB) |
Category | Description |
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Data Access | On-site use and subsequent remote data access |
Degree of anonymisation | weakly anonymous |
Sensitive variables | None |
Standards for the citation of data and data documentation | Data: 'This study uses the weakly anonymous data of the Employment survey in East Germany (DDR) 1989 from the IAB. 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 subsequently remote data access.' Data documentation: Rudolph, Helmut (2016): DDR Berufstätigenerhebung 1989. FDZ Datenreport, 02/2016 (de), Nürnberg |
Working Tools
Dataset Descriptions
All details on variables are included in FDZ Datenreport 02/2016 (pdf, only in German).
Data Access
The dataset of the Employment survey in East Germany (DDR) 1989 is only available for replication studies via the following ways of Access:
- On-site Use
- Remote Data Access
If you want to use this dataset we ask you to contact us directly (iab.fdz@iab.de).