Summary
The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample is a household survey conducted jointly by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample provides a database which permits to gain new insights by addressing various aspects of immigration regarding activation and attraction of skilled immigrants and to provide clear guidance regarding immigration, integration and labour market policies in Germany. The first five survey waves were carried out between 2013 and 2017, with between 3,400 and almost 5,000 persons taking part in each of them. The survey has partly been financed by the Ministry of labour and social affairs and the questionnaires are similar to the survey “Living in Germany” from the GSOEP at DIW Berlin. Please find more detailed information on the dataset in the outline (pdf).
IAB-SOEP-MIG-ADIAB makes it possible to analyse survey and administrative data for a part of the participants in the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample simultaneously. The linked administrative data set contains both variables with individual characteristics and characteristics of the establishments the respondents work at. The administrative data cover the years 1975-2014. Thus, episodes which started or ended after the actual interview are included as well.
Dataset Descriptions, Questionnaires and Frequencies
German
- FDZ-Datenreport 11/2016 (pdf)
- Fragebögen, Welle 1-5 (zip, in German and English and as helping tool in Polish, Turkish, Rumanian und Russian)
- Auszählungen und Labels (zip)
English
- Questionnaires, wave 1-5 (zip, in German and English and as helping tool in Polish, Turkish, Rumanian und Russian)
- Frequencies and labels (zip)
Data Access
The data product is only available for replication studies via the following ways of access:
On-site Use included Remote Data Access.
Test Data
Usually test data are available in order to allow for the preparation of programs to facilitate remote data access as well as on-site use. But there are currently no test data available for IAB-SOEP-MIG-ADIAB.
We recommend users to apply for the scientific use file IAB-SOEP Migration sample in order to prepare the analysis of the survey data. Further information on requesting a SUF.
Furthermore we recommend users to make use of the test data for the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies in order to prepare the analysis of the administrative data. Although these data are based on a different sample, they contain the same variables.
To the SIAB test data
Other Working Tools
Error correction
An error has been detected in the labels for the variable 'estatvor' (employment status prior to job search). Please read the following info sheet (pdf) to learn more and find guidelines to correct the error.
Citation
Researchers working with the IAB-SOEP-MIG-ADIAB are obligated to acknowledge the data base and its documentation within their publications by using the following reference:
Data:
The study uses weakly anonymized data combining the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample with administrative data of IAB (IAB-SOEP MIG ADIAB, version 7514). 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 access.
Data documentation:
Trübswetter, Parvati; Fendel, Tanja (2016): IAB-SOEP Migrationsstichprobe verknüpft mit administrativen Daten des IAB - Version 1 (IAB-SOEP-MIG-ADIAB 7514, Version 1). FDZ-Datenreport, 11/2016 (de). Nürnberg (only in german)
Herbert Brücker, Martin Kroh, Simone Bartsch, Jan Goebel, Simon Kühne, Elisabeth Liebau, Parvati Trübswetter, Ingrid Tucci, Jürgen Schupp. 2014. The new IAB-SOEP Migration Sample: an introduction into the methodology and the contents. SOEP Survey Papers 216: Series C. Berlin: DIW/SOEP
According to the FDZ Data Usage Agreement, any type of publication resulting from work with FDZ data must be reported to the FDZ by e-mail to iab.fdz@iab.de 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-SOEP Migration Sample dataset.