Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) [Germany], 1975-2017 (ICPSR 37154)

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Manfred Antoni, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung; Alexandra Schmucker, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung; Stefan Seth, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung; Philipp vom Berge, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

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SIAB 7517, Stichprobe integrierter Arbeitsmarktbiografien

The Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) is a 2% random sample of the population of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the Institute for Employment Research IAB). The IEB comprises all individuals in Germany, who were in one of the following statuses at least once during the observation period:

  • employment subject to social security (recorded from 1975 onwards)
  • marginal part-time employment (recorded from 1999 onwards)
  • receipt of benefits in accordance with Social Code Book III (recorded from 1975 onwards) or Social Code Book II (recorded from 2005 onwards)
  • registered with the Federal Employment Agency (BA) as a jobseeker (recorded from 2000 onwards)
  • participation in an employment or training measure (recorded from 2000 onwards)
The SIAB covers the employment histories of 1,875,439 individuals. The IEB make it possible to track the employment status of a person to a given day.

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1975 -- 2017
  1. Approved researchers can access these confidential data through on-site machines in ICPSR's physical data enclave in Ann Arbor. Additional information can be found here. Users should consult the data owners directly for details on obtaining the SIAB data and documentation.
  2. Please cite the data documentation as follows: Antoni, Manfred; Schmucker, Alexandra; Seth, Stefan; vom Berge, Philipp (2019): Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) 1975-2017. FDZ-Datenreport, 02/2019 (en), Nürnberg.

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The administrative individual data were drawn from the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the IAB. They unite data from different data sources, each of which may contain information from different administrative procedures. In addition, some supplementary variables from these data sources which are not part of the IEB are incorporated into the administrative individual data.

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