A guide to preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies (SIAB, version 7519 v1) for scientific analysis

Abstract The Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) is the most frequently requested data set provided by the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). However, preparing the SIAB for scientific analysis is a compl...

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Main Authors: Heiko Stüber, Wolfgang Dauth, Johann Eppelsheimer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2023-02-01
Series:Journal for Labour Market Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-023-00335-w
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description Abstract The Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) is the most frequently requested data set provided by the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). However, preparing the SIAB for scientific analysis is a complicated and error-prone task. This article explains steps necessary to prepare the latest version of the SIAB (7519 v1) and gives examples of how the preparation can be done. Among other things, it shows how to impute right-censored wages, deal with parallel employment episodes, and clean up the data set. The supplementary material to this article contains extensively annotated Stata do-files to replicate our data preparation.
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spellingShingle Heiko Stüber
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A guide to preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies (SIAB, version 7519 v1) for scientific analysis
Journal for Labour Market Research
SIAB 7519
Data preparation
Stata
IAB
FDZ
title A guide to preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies (SIAB, version 7519 v1) for scientific analysis
title_full A guide to preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies (SIAB, version 7519 v1) for scientific analysis
title_fullStr A guide to preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies (SIAB, version 7519 v1) for scientific analysis
title_full_unstemmed A guide to preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies (SIAB, version 7519 v1) for scientific analysis
title_short A guide to preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies (SIAB, version 7519 v1) for scientific analysis
title_sort guide to preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies siab version 7519 v1 for scientific analysis
topic SIAB 7519
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Stata
IAB
FDZ
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