Employment and retirement

Summary

The dataset is designed to identify factors which have an impact on the willingness to continue to work beyond retirement age, as well as the desired working conditions for this continuation. The study does not only allow analysis of the current professional situation, opinion on the increase of the retirement age, job satisfaction, working conditions, work atmosphere, health and information on further education, but also correlation of these aspects with others such as gender, family status, various personality traits or establishment size and sector. However, the data set includes only 1500 employees who were born between 1944-1953. Moreover, it is a cross-sectional study, which was conducted in 2008. Therefore, it cannot be surveyed if the intention to work beyond retirement age has been realised or not. Furthermore, the data are available in German only and the documentation provided is not very extensive.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Crosssection occasional

Data gathering method
Telephone

Access to data

Conditions of access
Available for scientific, non-profit use via GESIS (Study number 5457); Data can be downloaded directly after online registration as SPSS or STATA files. However, access is permitted for the use of data in a scientific, non-profit context only.

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
anonymised microdata

Formats available
SPSS, STATA

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data was first collected in 2008 and had a sample size of 1500 units.

First year of collection
2008

Stratification if applicable
The master sample provided by infratest is stratified by communities. Moreover, a quota sampling of education, age, region and social status was applied (cf. http://www.bib-demografie.de/SharedDocs/Publikationen/DE/Download/Materialienbaende/129.pdf;jsessionid=974D94114D69743826946D0D3495E9B2.2_cid284?__blob=publicationFile&v=4: 14).

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
National

Age range
employees (freelancers excluded) born 1944-1953

Statistical representativeness
Special group, please specify

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
With the objective to identify reasons for the continuation of work beyond retirement age, the data set includes variables on a variety of topics related to the field of work and productivity. The data set covers the following topics within the work domain: • current employment (contractual number of hours, position, receipt of pension besides income from employment, short-time work, seasonal work, position, hours worked within a week, years worked for the current workplace, number of former employers), • current workplace (number of employees, sector), • unemployment (when and for how long), • retirement (opinion on the increase of the retirement age from 65 to 67 years, own retirement age without deduction, desired retirement age), • self-assessment of current working conditions (interest, identification with workplace, motivation, satisfaction, concentration, monotony, posing risks to health etc.), • working atmosphere (relationship to colleagues and management etc.), • continuation of work after reaching retirement age (motivation, requirements and desires).

Linkage

Standardisation
No information available

Possibility of linkage among databases
Linkage among databases or registries is not possible.

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
No information is available.

Breaks
No information is available.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
No information is available.

Governance

Contact information
Frank Micheel
Federal Institute for Population Research
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4
D-65185 Wiesbaden Germany Phone: +49 611 75 2445
Email: frank.micheel(at)bib.bund.de
Url: http://info1.gesis.org/dbksearch19/SDesc2.asp?no=5457&tab=0&ll=10¬abs=&af=&nf=1&search=&search2=&db=E

Timeliness, transparency
There are about 3 years between when the data is collected and when it is published. Data was collected from 05/2008 to 06/2008. The data set has been available since 04/2011.