"Further education and training activities are considered to be recalled only with difficulty. Therefore non-formal and informal training activities have mostly not been collected in retrospective surveys. Within the framework of the IAB-ALWA study 'Working and Learning in a Changing World' also...

"Further education and training activities are considered to be recalled only with difficulty. Therefore non-formal and informal training activities have mostly not been collected in retrospective surveys. Within the framework of the IAB-ALWA study 'Working and Learning in a Changing World' also...

Weiterbildungsaktivitäten gelten als schwer erinnerbare Ereignisse. Daher wurde bislang auf die retrospektive Erhebung nicht-formaler und informeller Weiterbildungsaktivitäten weitgehend verzichtet. Im Rahmen der IAB-Studie 'Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel (ALWA)' stehen jedoch auch kurze und...

Weiterbildungsaktivitäten gelten als schwer erinnerbare Ereignisse. Daher wurde bislang auf die retrospektive Erhebung nicht-formaler und informeller Weiterbildungsaktivitäten weitgehend verzichtet. Im Rahmen der IAB-Studie 'Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel (ALWA)' stehen jedoch auch kurze und...

"'Working and Learning in a Changing World', or ALWA (the acronym being derived from the study's German name 'Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel'), is a dataset which was collected as part of the research-project 'Qualifications, Competencies and Working Life' carried out by the department 'Education...

"Event history calendars (EHC) have proven to be a useful tool to collect retrospective autobiographic life course data. One problem is that they are only standardized to some extent. This limits their applicability in large-scale surveys. However, in such surveys a modularized retrospective...

"By editing the life course data in ALWA we on the one hand intended to eliminate temporal and substantial inconsistencies in the educational and employment histories, which have been revealed by data analyses of the raw data. On the other hand, with that we wanted to produce a data base for...

"The IAB-ALWA study (Work and Learning in a Changing World) was conducted between September 2007 and March 2008 on behalf of the IAB. The aim of this representative telephone survey was to collect systematically educational and employment histories of 10,000 adults who were between 18 and 50...

Biografische Kalender (EHC) haben sich als ein nützliches Instrument zur Erfassung retrospektiver autobiografischer Lebensverlaufsdaten erwiesen. Problematisch ist allerdings, dass biographische Kalender nur zu einem gewissen Grad standardisiert sind, was deren Einsetzbarkeit in...

"'Working and Learning in a Changing World', ALWA derived from its German name 'Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel' for short, is a dataset which is collected within the project 'Qualifications, Competencies and Working Life' at the department 'Education and Employment over the Life Course' of the...