The Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for

Employment Research

ODaF Europe 2008, 14th-15th April 2008

Stefan Bender & Dana Mueller

(Germany)

Gliederung 2

Contents

Administrative data Metadata National and international co-operations/projects

Administrative Data 3

Administrative Data in the Federal Employment Agency

Two different sources:

• notification procedure of the Social Security System (health-, pension-, unemployment- and long-term care insurance)

• administrative data of the Federal Employment Agency

Administrative Data 4

Notification procedure of the Social Security System

Intention of data collection:

calculation of social security contribution and entitlement of benefit

statistics

Procedures:

every employee and marginal worker covered by social security system (notification requirement)

identification: social security number and establishment number

annual, begin or end of employment, employment interruption, change of health insurance

What is notified?

Administrative Data 5

Notification of Social Security:• Insurance Number• Last Name• First Name• Address• Country• Reason for Notification• Date of Employment• Establishment Number• Nationality • School Education • Professional Education • Type of Employment • Gross Earning • Occupational Status

Administrative Data 6

Administrative data of the Federal Employment Agency

Receipt of benefit

Job placement

Participation in measures

computer-aided processes

Federal Employment Agency is not allowed to store data for a long time

data are transmitted to the Institute for Employment Research

Administrative Data 7

Employment history covered by social security system

Benefit receipt

Job search (2000)

Participation in measures of the Federal Employment Agency (2000)

apprenticeship pensionsince 1975

IAB data are merged data

Administrative Data 8

Notification to Social Security

Administrative Data of Federal Employment Agency

Surveys

Employment Statistics

Employment History

Benefit Recipient History

Participants in measures

Job-seekers

Employee and Benefit Recipient History

Integrated Employment Biographies

BAP BHP IABS IEBS LIAB

Data Warehouse and further editing

Source

Research Data (RDC)

Editing

IAB Data (ITM)

Administrative Data 9

Data and information flow

Data Warehouse

IT and Information management (ITM)

FDZ

External Researchers

data information

Metadata 10

Metadata

Standardized handbooks/data-reports in MS-Word

Prototype (ITM):

• aim of prototype: optimization of handbook’s preparation and care

• focus on variable description

• read-in and read-out routines (MS-Word)

• enter of changes and new descriptions of variables and values

• versioning

Metadata 11

Prototype (ITM)

New version

Variable description

DWH information Detailed description

Scale type

Variable Groups (Categories)

Synonyms of older Variable Labels

Name and label

New handbook

Recodes/assign

Value label

Value

Digits

MS Word

Link to variables

Handbooks Further description in MS Word

Metadata 12

Prototype

Further steps:

• search for variables, synonyms and variable groups

• link to frequencies

• input und output DDI3/XML

• automatically adjustment to DWH information

• web application (intranet)

• tests for documentation of surveys

National and International Projects 13

National co-operations

Co-operation of Research Data Centres and Data Service Centres in Germany

• Task force (AKöffFDZ)

Projects:

translation of questionnaires in English (IdZA)

third-party funds project KombiFID - Combination of Enterprise Data in Germany (with Research Data Centre of the Federal

Statistical Office)

National and International Projects 14

Submitted EU-Project

EURASI – European Access to Statistical Information

Taskforces:

Management

Networking Data access

Integration activities data access

Metadata

European standards of output statistical disclosure control

Research on microdata SDC

Research on tabular data protection on remote access data systems

Exploition, Communication and dissemination

Research on data access and methods

Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Swiss, Denmark, UK, Bulgaria

Thanks for your intention!

Contact:

stefan.bender@iab.de

dana.mueller@iab.de

http://fdz.iab.de

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Administrative Data – Brief Introduction

are produced to collect data for administrative processes and to complete tasks of public institutions/organisations/establishments

Advantages:

• individual information

• complete coverage of time

• important administrative questions are reliable

• to report statistics and longitudinal studies

• to create research data

Disadvantages:

• depend on the administrative system’s population

• changes in administrative systems make comparison difficult

• lower quality of less important administrative information

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Prototype

Hardware/Software:

• Windows-Server 2003

- XAMPP 1.6.4

- Oracle Instant Client 10.2

- Microsoft Word 2002

- Zend Framwork1.03

• Oracle-server in Version 9i (or 10g)

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Prototype

Sources of applications and libraries

XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/de/xampp.html

Oracle Instant Client http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html

Zend Framework http://framework.zend.com/

TinyMCE http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

Prototype http://www.prototypejs.org/

Scriptaculous http://script.aculo.us/

CSS-Design fortables http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/index.php

HTML-Tidy (read-in of handbooks)

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Microsoft Word 2002 http://www.microsoft.com