The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency: Data Supply and Demand Between 2004 and 2009

Background and data portfolioSince 2004, the Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (RDC-IAB) has been offering comprehensive individual data on employees, unemployed persons, job seekers and participants in active labour market policy programmes for scientific labour market research. For this purpose, data from employer notifications and from different administrative processes in the labour market administration are linked. These administrative data are also combined with survey data. In addition, linked employer-employee data allow simultaneous analyses of the supply and demand sides of the labour market. Data linkageThe data can be linked using unique identifiers, such as social insurance numbers, client numbers from local employment agencies, or establishment numbers. Since the foundation of the German Record Linkage Center (GRLC) in 2011, the RDC-IAB also applies methods for linking with non-unique and error-prone linkage identifiers like names, addresses and birth dates. Data accessGerman data protection law classifies the data offered by the RDC-IAB as highly sensitive and strictly regulates their use by external researchers. The RDC-IAB has therefore established various data access modes. Although data can be transferred directly to research institutions in anonymised form, this procedure is generally not effective for linked data, as the loss of information due to the necessary anonymisation would be too great. For this reason, the RDC-IAB focuses on the access modes on-site use and remote data execution. In cooperation with other data centres, RDC-IAB has therefore established on-site data access at currently 16 locations worldwide.

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German labour market data – Data provision and access for the international scientific community

German Economic Review ◽

10.1515/ger-2019-0127 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 313-333

Author(s):

Dana Müller ◽

Stefanie Wolter

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Survey Data ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Market Research ◽

Research Data ◽

International Scientific Community ◽

High Quality ◽

Data Centre ◽

Integrated Employment ◽

Data Provision

AbstractThe Research Data Centre at the Institute for Employment Research (RDC-IAB) has been offering high-quality administrative and survey data on the German labour market for 15 years and has become one of the most important locations worldwide for researchers interested in data for labour market research. This article provides an overview of the RDC-IAB, including its data and access modes. The article presents two datasets in more detail: the Sample of Integrated Employment Biographies, a classic dataset, and the Linked Personnel Panel, a new dataset. Finally, this article provides insights into future infrastructure and data developments.

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Canadian Research Data Centre Network

Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research ◽

10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3359 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 500-502

Author(s):

Raymond F. Currie

Keyword(s):

Research Data ◽

Data Centre ◽

Canadian Research

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Towards publishing soil and agricultural research data: the BonaRes DOI

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13531 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Nikolai Svoboda ◽

Xenia Specka ◽

Carsten Hoffmann ◽

Uwe Heinrich

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Research ◽

Professional Community ◽

Field Trials ◽

Research Data ◽

Ministry Of Education ◽

Data Centre ◽

Research Initiative ◽

Data Collections ◽

User Friendly

The German research initiative BonaRes (&#8220;Soil as a sustainable resource for the bioeconomy&#8221;, financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF) was launched in 2015 with a duration of 9 years and perpetuation envisaged. BonaRes includes 10 collaborative soil research projects and, additionally, the BonaRes Centre.Within the BonaRes Data Centre (important infrastructure in the planned NFDI4Agri), diverse research data with mostly agricultural and soil background are collected from BonaRes collaborative projects and external scientists. &#160;After a possible embargo expires, all data are made available in a standardized form for free reuse via the BonaRes Repository. Once the administrative and technical infrastructure has been established, the Data Centre provides services for scientists in all terms of data management. The focus here is on the publication of research data (e.g. long-term experiments, field trials, model results) to ensure availability and citeability and thus foster scientific reuse. Available data can be accessed via the BonaRes Repository. For instance: https://doi.org/10.20387/BonaRes-BSVY-R418.Due to the high diversity of agricultural data provided via our repository, we have developed individually tailored strategies to make them citable for 1.) finalized data, 2.) regularly updating and 3.) data collections with related tables. The challenge is that the author's rights (license CC-BY) must be preserved and yet a user-friendly citation of even large amounts of data must be ensured. We will present our BonaRes DOI concept by means of use cases and will be looking forward to discuss it with the professional community.

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