User Guide "Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security" (PASS) : Wave 6

"This User Guide is meant to give information on general issues of the panel study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) and to offer assistance for the work with the datasets of the scientific use file (SUF). While the data reports, which are released for every wave, inform in detail about key statistics, data editing, generated variables and the weighting of a certain wave, the User Guide offers comprehensive information that is not specific for a single wave. Arne Bethmann, Benjamin Fuchs, Anja Wurdack: Getting started with PASS (8-10); Mark Trappmann: PASS backround (11-12); Mark Trappmann, Gerrit Müller; Arne Bethmann: Design of the study (13-22); Jonas Beste, Johannes Eggs, Stefanie Gundert, Claudia Wenzig: Instruments and interview programme (23-26); Benjamin Fuchs: Structure of the scientific use file and its datasets (27-47); Arne Bethmann: Variable types and their names (48-51); Daniel Gebhardt: Data editing (52-55); Mark Trappmann: Weighting (56-66); Daniel Gebhardt, Arne Bethmann: Key variables (68-80); Mark Trappmann: Weights (81-99); Daniel Gebhardt, Arne Bethmann: Generated variables (99-103); Daniel Gebhardt, Arne Bethmann: Constant characteristics (103-107)" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))