"The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency provides access to high quality micro data on the German labour market. With 'ALWA survey data linked to administrative data of the IAB' (ALWA-ADIAB) it offers a new data set that combines survey information from the ALWA study (...

"This data report describes the linked data of the survey Working and Learning in a Changing World (ALWA) with administrative data of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))<br><br><b>Additional Information</b><ul><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2011/DR_05-11_frequencies_labels_DE.zip'>Fallzahlen</a></li><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2011/DR_05-11_frequencies_labels_EN.zip'>frequencies labels</a></li><li><a href='http://fdz.iab.de/de/FDZ_Individual_Data/ALWA.aspx'>Weitere Informationen zu dem...</a></li></ul>

"This report contains an analysis of nonresponse bias in the IAB survey ALWA ('Working and Learning in a Changing World'). Besides the usual processes of attrition in standardized surveys, which result from persons who cannot be reached and persons who do not cooperate, two additional sources of...

"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...

In this Datenreport you find a short description of the data set and the codebook with a detailed description of the moduls and the variables. (IAB)<br><br><b>Additional Information</b><ul><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2010/DR_02-10_EN.xls'>codebook</a></li><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2010/DR_02-10_Anhang_EN.zip'>frequencies</a></li><li><a href='http://fdz.iab.de/342/section.aspx/Publikation/k100831n03'>german version</a></li></ul>

"This report describes the variables of ALWA-LiNu data. The IAB study ALWA ('Work-ing and Learning in a Changing World') was conducted in 2007/08 and contains de-tailed retrospective life course data of 10,404 individuals living in Germany born in between 1956 and 1988. ALWA-LiNu provides...

"This report describes the skills tests conducted in the face-to-face (PAPI) interview of the IAB study 'Working and Learning in a Changing World' (ALWA). These tests focused on measuring cognitive skills in two domains, prose literacy and numeracy. The major goal of the ALWA study, for which...

"'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...

The english version of this Datenreport you'll find here: http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2010/DR_02-10_EN.pdf<br><br><b>Additional Information</b><ul><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2010/DR_02-10_Anhang.pdf'>Hier finden Sie ergänzende Informationen - Anhang</a></li><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2010/DR_02-10.xls'>xls-Version des Datenreports - Stand: 16.03.2011</a></li><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2010/DR_02-10.xlsx'>xlsx-Version des Datenreports - Stand: 30.06.2012</a></li><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2010/DR_02-10_Anhang.xls'>xls-Version des...</a></li></ul>