"This FDZ data report describes the 'Regionalfile' of the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies 1975-2010 (SIAB-R 7510). This dataset represents the factual anonymous version of the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) and may be delivered to scientific research...

"The goal of developing a new German Classification of Occupations 2010 (KldB 2010) was to create an up-to-date and generally accepted classification of occupations for Germany which on the one hand satisfies the pronounced occupation-specific structuring of the German labour market and on the...

"The administrative data of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) holds the daily gross pay for each person. For specific research questions however the net wage is of greater importance. The aim of this methodic report is to offer a first approach for the calculation of net wages as well as the...

"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...

"Exclusively for use in academic teaching at universities or research institutes, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) generated absolutely anonymized data, a so-called campus file (CF), based on the data of the Scientific Use File of the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies...

"The fifth wave of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) includes an experimental Factorial Survey design, which aims to analyse the dynamics of job-related mobility decisions. About 5,000 persons were presented with five hypothetical job offers ('vignettes') each. These...

"The analysis of FDZ BA data is hampered by changing industry classifications. This report describes two methods to deal with this and provides ready-to-use working tools. The first method is the usage of directional correspondence tables. We create several correspondence tables for the...

"Remote data access as defined as the possibility for a researcher to access and evaluate restricted micro data via a secure internet connection from his home desktop computer at any time has not been implemented by a German Research Data Centre (RDC) so far. Privacy regulations and especially...

"The annual report 2009/10 gives an overview of functions and activities of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The general function of the FDZ - to prepare individual datasets and make them available for research...

"Das IAB hat infas im Herbst 2009 mit der Durchführung der vierten Erhebungswelle im PASS beauftragt. Der vorliegende Methodenbericht beschreibt die Zusammensetzung der Stichprobe aus Bestands- und Auffrischungsadressen (Kapitel 2), die Befragungspersonen der Studie (Kapitel 3) und geht auf die...