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IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees – version 1620 v1

DOI: 10.5684/soep.iab-bamf-soep-mig.2020

Summary

The IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany is a representative longitudinal survey conducted jointly by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, the Research Centre on Migration, Integration, and Asylum of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the DIW Berlin. The first wave of the survey was carried out in 2016, where interviews were sought with 4,465 persons who have arrived in Germany since 2013. A refreshment sample of 2,252 persons was added in 2017, to consider asylum-seekers and refugees who moved in by 31.12.2016 and were registered by 1.1.2017. An additional refreshment sample of 1,216 persons was carried out in 2020, including asylum-seekers and refugees who arrived in Germany between January 2017 and June 2019. In total, 4,473 persons were interviewed in 2020. The IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees provides a database which permits to gain new insights about living conditions of individuals who sought protection in Germany in recent years. Please find more detailed information on the dataset in the outline.

In addition, the data product SOEP-CMI-ADIAB, in which the survey data were linked with administrative data from the IAB, is available via the FDZ of the BA at the IAB.

Dataset Descriptions and Questionnaires

German

English

Questionnaires, wave 1-3 (zip)

Further information and working tools about the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees can be found at the SOEP at DIW Berlin and at the BAMF.

Quality Control in the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees

Information on the quality control in the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees can be found in this info sheet (pdf).

More detailed information on the method of identifying interviewer falsification in the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees are available in the FDZ-Methodenreport 02/19 (pdf).

Data Access

Data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees are available at the FDZ of SOEP.

Citation

Researchers working with the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees are obligated to acknowledge the data base and its documentation within their publications, including the DOI, by using the following reference:

Data:

Brücker, Herbert; Liebig, Stefan; Martin Kroh, Renate Leistner-Rocca, Jan Goebel, Nina Rother, Jürgen Schupp, Charlotte Bartels, Alexandra Fedorets, Andreas Franken, Martin Gerike, Florian Griese, Markus M. Grabka, Jannes Jacobsen, Selin Kara, Yuliya Kosyakova, Peter Krause, Hannes Kröger, Elisabeth Liebau, Maria Metzing, Jana Nebelin, Lisa Pagel, Marvin Petrenz, David Richter, Diana Schacht, Paul Schmelzer, Christian Schmitt, Daniel Schnitzlein, Carsten Schröder, Rainer Siegers, Manuel Siegert, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Pavarti Trübswetter, Ehsan Vallizadeh, Knut Wenzig, Stefan Zimermann (2021): "IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees – version 1620 v1". Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). DOI: 10.5684/soep.iab-bamf-soep-mig.2020
Data access was provided via a Scientific Use File supplied by the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB).

Data documentation:

Brücker, Herbert; Rother, Nina; Schupp, Jürgen (2017): IAB-BAMF-SOEP Befragung von Geflüchteten 2016. Studiendesign, Feldergebnisse sowie Analysen zu schulischer wie beruflicher Qualifikation, Sprachkenntnissen sowie kognitiven Potenzialen. IAB Forschungsbericht 13/2017 (de), Nuremberg (only in german).

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.

Data Versions

>> Further information on other versions of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees dataset.