Employment Registry

Summary

Strengths: Employment trajectory data is cleaned from breaks. Data is processed and prepared for relevant questions in social sciences. Control of AMS data with Central Registry reported high degree of data match/overlap. Weaknesses: As typical for registry-data, trajectories contain in detail, however, breaks and inconsistency in the terminology. This is an effect of changes in the legislative system.

Type of data

Data Source
Registry

Type of Study
Other: Registry

Data gathering method
Other: Administrative records

Access to data

Conditions of access

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

Formats available

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Different data series included in the AMS statistics have been collected for varying numbers of years.

First year of collection
Earliest data collection in (more or less) its current format dating back 25 years (1988)

Stratification if applicable
Age, sex, region, employment service/agency district, occupation, nationality, disability status, employment status (self-employed, employed, marginally employed) and economic sector of employment (NACE), working time (part-time, full-time)

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
By region and employment service district

Age range

Statistical representativeness
Population representative

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Registry covers (Un)employment status, labour market programmes, foreign employed persons, unemployment beneficiaries Corresponds to Work and Productivity and Social Systems and Welfare Topics

Linkage

Standardisation
NACE Regions (correspond to European wide used system)

Possibility of linkage among databases
Linkage to data of Statiscs Austria is possible, but must be reported and receive authorization by the Data Protection Commission.

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
Yes

Breaks
Containing breaks due to policy changes of social security entitlements. Employment trajectories are, however, cleaned from these breaks.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
Some terms are not consistent due to changes in policy and terminology used.

Governance

Contact information
Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer, AMS Österreich (Labour Market Service Austria), Veronika Murauer, Manuela Eichinger
Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer, AMS Österreich (Labour Market Service Austria)

Austria Phone: (0043) 01 331 78-605, (0043) 01 331 78-601
Email: veronika.murauer(at)ams.at, Manuela.Eichinger(at)ams.at
Url: Aggregate tables can be retrieved here: http://www.ams.at/ueber_ams/14172.html or http://www.dnet.at/elis/Default.aspx

Timeliness, transparency