Data Set Repository - Dataset: IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey

Data Set Description

The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey (IZA ED) was developed in order to obtain reliable longitudinal estimates for the impact of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMP). Moreover, it is suitable for studying the processes of job search and labor market reintegration. The data allow analyzing dynamics with respect to a rich set of individual and labor market characteristics. It covers the initial period of unemployment as well as long-term outcomes, for a total period of up to 3 years after unemployment entry.

A longitudinal questionnaire records monthly labor market activities and their duration in detail for the mentioned period. These activities are, for example, employment, unemployment, ALMP, other training etc. Available information covers employment status, occupation, sector, and related earnings, hours, unemployment benefits or other transfer payments.

A cross-sectional questionnaire contains all basic information including the process of entering into unemployment, and demographics. The entry into unemployment describes detailed job search behavior such as search intensity, search channels and the role of the Employment Agency. Moreover, reservation wages and individual expectations about leaving unemployment or participating in ALMP programs are recorded.
The available demographic information covers employment status, occupation and sector, as well as specifics about citizenship and ethnic background, educational levels, number and age of children, household structure and income, family background, health status, and workplace as well as place of residence regions. The survey provides as well detailed information about the treatment by the unemployment insurance authorities, imposed labor market policies, benefit receipt and sanctions.

The survey focuses additionally on individual characteristics and behavior. Such co-variates of individuals comprise social networks, ethnic and migration background, relations and identity, personality traits, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, life and job satisfaction, risky behavior, attitudes and preferences.

The main advantages of the IZA ED are the large sample size of unemployed individuals, the accuracy of employment histories, the innovative and rich set of individual co-variates and the fact that the survey measures important characteristics shortly after entry into unemployment.

Sampling

The IZA ED focuses exclusively on entries into unemployment. The survey covers a longitudinal panel of 17,396 individuals who registered as unemployed at the German Federal Employment Agency between May 2007 and May 2008. The sampling of the data is restricted to individuals who are 16 to 54 years old, and who receive or are eligible to receive unemployment benefits.

Starting from unemployment entry the individuals were surveyed at least three times: For the first time as closely as possible to the entry point into unemployment, the second time 12 months later and the third time three years (36 months) after entry into unemployment. Additionally, three selected cohorts were interviewed 6 months after entry into unemployment, in order to provide more details about the early stage of the unemployment spell..

From the registered monthly unemployment inflows of about 8 million individuals between June 2007 and May 2008, a subsample of approximately 220,000 individuals has been drawn from the administrative records (3% random sample). Out of this gross sample each month a representative sample of approximately 1,450 individuals is interviewed, so that after one year 12 monthly cohorts are gathered. Altogether, this amounts to a total of 17,396 realized interviews with an average time lag of about two months between the unemployment registration and the interview.

The IZA Evaluation Dataset complemented administrative data of the German Federal Employment Agency with survey data. The administrative data are based on social security records relevant for pension claims and unemployment insurance. The survey data can be merged with administrative information in the cases where the respondents agreed to this. The administrative part of the data is not available with the survey data for external researchers.

Further Information

-- Patrick Arni, Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Klaus F. Zimmermann (2013). The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File  (Link)
-- Patrick Arni, Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Klaus F. Zimmermann (2013). User Manual IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey

-- Marco Caliendo, Armin Falk, Lutz C. Kaiser, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann (2010). The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making. International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 731-752 --

Date Created: 2013-09-16

Scope of Data Set

Subject Terms: AGE, ATTITUDES, CITIZENSHIP, CLINICAL TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS, COMMUTING, COOPERATION, CULTURAL IDENTITY, CULTURAL INTEGRATION, DEBTS, DEGREES, DRINKING BEHAVIOUR, ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, EDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCE, EDUCATIONAL LEVELS, EDUCATIONAL TESTS, EDUCATIONAL VOUCHERS, EMPLOYERS, EMPLOYMENT HISTORY, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, EMPLOYMENT POLICY, EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMES, EMPLOYMENT SERVICES, ENGLISH (LANGUAGE), ETHNIC GROUPS, EVALUATION, EVERYDAY LIFE, EXPECTATION, FAMILY LIFE, FATHER'S PLACE OF BIRTH, FRIENDS, FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, GENDER, GERMAN (LANGUAGE), HEALTH BEHAVIOUR, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLDS, HOUSING, IMMIGRANTS, IMMIGRATION, INCOME, INTERETHNIC RELATIONS, INTERGROUP RELATIONS, INTERPERSONAL TRUST, JOB CHANGING, JOB CHARACTERISTICS, JOB HUNTING, JOB SATISFACTION, JOB SECURITY, LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT, LABOUR MOBILITY, LANGUAGE SKILLS, LANGUAGES USED AT HOME, LANGUAGES USED AT WORK, LIFE SATISFACTION, LONGTERM UNEMPLOYMENT, MIGRANTS, MOTHER'S PLACE OF BIRTH, PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT, PERSONALITY, PERSONALITY TRAITS, PLACE OF BIRTH, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS, RACE RELATIONS, RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION, RELIGIOUS ATTENDANCE, RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOUR, RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY, RISK, SCHOOL TIME, SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT, SELF-EMPLOYED, SELF-HELP GROUPS, SMOKING, SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, SOCIAL NETWORKS, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL SKILLS, SOCIAL WELFARE, SPOUSE'S ETHNIC GROUP, STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT, TERMINATION OF SERVICE, TIME, TRANSFER PAYMENTS, TRUST, UNEMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, VOLUNTARY WORK, WAGES, WEALTH, WELL-BEING, WORKING TIME, YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR, OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT REASONS, UNEMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE, DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT, NET INCOME, UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE, SURVEY LINKED TO ADMINISTRATIVE SOURCES, INTERNSHIP, MARGINAL EMPLOYMENT, WAGE SUBSIDY, UNEMPLOYMENT HISTORY, SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATES, NATURALIZATIONS, HEALTH STATUS, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, RETURN MIGRATION, UNEMPLOYMENT SPELLS

Time Periods: 2007 - 2011

Citation(s)

Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey (IZA ED) (yyyy – yyyy years of data suing in your analysis). Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC). http://dx.doi.org/ 10.15185/izadp.7971.1
Researchers working with the “IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey” are obligated to acknowledge the data base and its documentation within their publications, including the DOI, by using this reference.

Arni, P., Caliendo, M., Künn, S. & Zimmermann, K. F.. (2014): The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File, IZA Journal of European Labor Studies,3:6.
Researchers working with the “IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey” are obligated to acknowledge the data base and its documentation within their publications by using this reference.

Publication(s)

IZA Discussion Paper(s)

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Availability:

Restricted Access

Investigator(s):

Institute for the Study of Labor, IZA

Type:

Longitudinal survey data

Source:

Telephone interview

Right:

Access to the data is provided to non-for-profit research, replication and teaching purposes. The data is available from the Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC).
Please contact IDSC for any access requests.

Coverage:

Districts, Country

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