Beschreibung

"The panel study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS), established by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), creates a new empirical dataset for labour market, welfare state and poverty research and policy counselling in Germany.<br> This data report provides an overview of the sixth survey wave, for which 14,619 individuals in 9,513 households were interviewed between February 2012 and September 2012. This sample included 12,687 individuals and 8,401 households that had previously been interviewed for PASS.<br> This data report documents the wave-specific aspects of the study. Following a short overview of the innovations and characteristics of wave 6 (Chapter 1.3), the data report provides key figures on the wave's sample and response rates (Chapter 2). The data preparation process is described (Chapter 5), and an overview of the variables generated is presented (Chapter 4). Additionally, the weighting procedure is presented (Chapter 6). Separate tables list the frequencies of all of the variables included in the scientific use file that were recorded in wave 6 by their respective datasets (Volumes II through V)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))