Microdata tools

Our microdata tools are a service provided by the German Microdata Lab (GML). These are brief reports which give information on the practical use of microdata in various subject areas and are complemented by tabulations, graphs, and SPSS/Stata jobs, including, among others, the construction of various social science classification systems (e.g. CASMIN-Classification) for microcensus data. Furthermore, the concepts underlying data from official sources are explained (e.g. labor force concept).

EU-Microdata

• EU-Silc
• EU-LFS
  

• The identification of non-marital living arrangement in the microcensus  [in German]
• Households, families, and living arrangements in the microcensus - concepts and typology [in German]
• Employment and the microcensus. Definition, concept, operationalization [in German]
• Reconstruction of derived variables on household, family, and living arrangements within the microcensus [in German]
• Construction of derived variables on household and family within the microcensus 1995 [in German]

• The classification of education CASMIN [in German]
• The International Standard Classification of Education ISCED-1997 [in German]
• Blossfeld’s classification of occupations [in German]
• The International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status, ISEI [in German]
• Transmission of Wegener’s magnitude-prestige scale into the classification of occupations [in German]
• The class scheme according to Erikson, Goldthorpe, and Portocarero (EGP) [in German]

• Information regarding the calculation of the microcensus sampling error [in German]
• LEM-Sample Program to proceed analyses on sample selectivity with the microcensus-panel  [in German]

• Harmonization key SEA83 to SEA98 [in German]

• EVS survey metadata 1962/63 to 2003 [in German]
• Overviews of variable/year for the EVS data sets 1962/63 and 1978 to 2003 [in German]
• Tools to harmonize and cumulate EVS data sets 1962/63 and 1978 to 2003 [in German]