DOI: 10.5684/soep.iab-bamf-soep-mig.2021.1
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, 2,636 persons were interviewed in 2021. 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 SOEP-CMI-ADIAB data product is available, in which the survey data was linked with administrative data of the IAB.
Dataset Descriptions and Questionnaires
German
- Introduction into the sample: Herbert Brücker, Nina Rother, Jürgen Schupp. 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 (pdf)
- Fragebögen, Welle 1-6 (zip)
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
Scientific Use Files (SUF). Further information on Requesting a SUF.
The IAB-BAMF-SOEP-REF-Survey Data are also contained in the SOEP data which can be ordered at the SOEP at DIW Berlin.
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, Kosyakova, Rother, Zinn, Eckhard, Maddox, Niehues, Schwanhäuser, Siegert, Tanis, Trübswetter, Goebel, Grabka, Schröder, Bartels, Beckmannshagen, Franken, Gerike, Griese, Halbmeier, Kara, Krause, Liebau, Nebelin, Petrenz, Satilmis, Siegers, Steinhauer, Wenzig, Zimmermann (2023): "IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees – version 1621 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.2021.1
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.