Research SAFELINK - Specification and implementation of a privacy-preserving record-linkage procedure

Collaborative partners

Augmenting survey data by linking the "Panel Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung (PASS)" with the "Integrated Employment Biographies of the IAB (IEB)"

The household panel study Labour Market and Social Security (IAB-PASS) for research on German Social Code II was initiated and started in December 2006 at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB).
The study investigates the life situation of benefit recipients' of the recently introduced Unemployment Benefit 2. Among the main analytic interests are:

  • A comparison of recipients' economic situation and social circumstances to those of the rest of the German population.
  • Providing a database that allows scientists to monitor processes of entering as well as leaving recipient status.
  • When looking at processes of leaving recipient status a particular focus is on an evaluation of policy measures aiming to assist recipients to do so.

The project group undertook the task of identifying records corresponding to the same entity from the panel data and the "Integrated Employment Biographies of the IAB (IEB)" using the "Merge Toolbox" (MTB). Thereby the project stuff at the IAB was enabled to augment PASS with information from the IEB to broaden the analytical potential of the panel data.