Abstract
The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) in the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) was founded in 2004 and is intended mainly to facilitate access to BA and IAB microdata for non-commercial empirical research using standardized and transparent access rules. Five years after its foundation the FDZ is acknowledged as a producer of innovative data products and has become a visible element of the research community. Furthermore, linkages to other data producers and the internationalization of data products and data access have been promoted by the FDZ.
Highlights
The German Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA) is the most important public producer of labour market data in Germany
A short description of these datasets is given in the paragraphs below whereas detailed information is provided on the website of the FDZ
Scientific use files are available for the Regional File 1975–2004 of the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) Employment Sample (IABS)2, the Integrated Employment Biographies Sample of the IAB (IEBS), the survey “Life Situation and Social Security 2005” (LSS 2005), the panel “Labour Market and Social Security” (PASS) and the Client Survey
Summary
The German Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA) is the most important public producer of labour market data in Germany. Since its foundation the FDZ has had a clear perception of itself (Kohlmann 2005) It is primarily a service-oriented institution, providing access to high-quality microdata under compliance of the current data privacy legislation. An employee survey for the project “Further Training as a Part of Lifelong Learning” (“Berufliche Weiterbildung als Bestandteil Lebenslangen Lernens”) has been linked to the data of the BA Another project aimed at enlarging the existing data supply and facilitating accessibility is the “Research Data Centre in Research Data Centre” (RDC-in-RDC) approach, promoted by the FDZ. By being an active member in the research community, the members of the FDZ are able to follow the current methodical discussions in order to assess the research potential of the data and to provide high-level individual counseling. The FDZ has to fulfill a role as a service provider, and as an active research unit
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