1. 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)

2. 2 Contents Administrative data Metadata National and international co-operations/projects

3. 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

4. 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?

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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 pension since 1975 IAB data are merged data

8. 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 BAPBHP IABSIEBSLIAB Data Warehouse and further editing Source Research Data (RDC) Editing IAB Data (ITM)

9. Administrative Data 9 Data and information flow Data Warehouse IT and Information management (ITM) FDZ External Researchers datainformation

10. Metadata 10 Metadata Standardized handbooks/data-reports in MS-Word Prototype (ITM): aim of prototype: optimization of handbooks 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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)

14. 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

15. Thanks for your intention! Contact: stefan.bender@iab.de dana.mueller@iab.de http://fdz.iab.de

16. Administrative Data 16 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 systems population changes in administrative systems make comparison difficult lower quality of less important administrative information

17. Metadata 17 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)

18. Metadata 18 Prototype Sources of applications and libraries XAMPPhttp://www.apachefriends.org/de/xampp.html Oracle Instant Clienthttp://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/ind ex.html Zend Frameworkhttp://framework.zend.com/ TinyMCEhttp://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ Prototypehttp://www.prototypejs.org/ Scriptaculoushttp://script.aculo.us/ CSS-Design fortableshttp://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/index.php HTML-Tidy (read-in of handbooks) http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ Microsoft Word 2002http://www.microsoft.com