BASiD - Biographical data of selected social security agencies in Germany

Abstract

"The Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency in the Institute for Employment Research (FDZ BA/IAB) and the Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance (FDZ-RV - GRV) offer longitudinal individual-level datasets. These datasets contain on the one hand information of the social security notifications and on the other hand characteristics of the administrative procedures of both institutions. In each institution, only information for accomplishment of their own current tasks is kept. The ambition of this project is to compile a common dataset which contains data of the GRV and the BA and/or, respectively, the IAB. The amount of information on individuals will be increased by filling the gaps in the single data sources by using the information of the other data source, which will provide new potential for scientific research. The combination of different data sources also supports the improvement of the quality of administrative records. The data are provided to the scientific community as a scientific use file as well as a weakly anonymised dataset accessible by on-site use." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Hochfellner, D., Müller, D. & Wurdack, A. (2011): BASiD - Biographical data of selected social security agencies in Germany. (FDZ-Datenreport 09/2011 (en)), Nürnberg, 94 p.