Social Statistical Database - Jobs of employees

Summary

Strengths: The data source provides full coverage, high quality data, and longitudinally consistent data.

Type of data

Data Source
Registry + Survey

Type of Study
Crosssection regular

Data gathering method
Other: 1999 - 2005: Combination/ integration of electronic registrations (Wage tax registration (Fibase), Insurance Registration Employees (VZA)) and survey (Survey of Employment and wages (EWL)), 2006 onwards: Edited version of Registration of wage tax and social insurance premiums (Polisadministratie).

Access to data

Conditions of access
Cannot be downloaded directly

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

Formats available
SPSS (default)

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data was collected between 1999 and 2010 with an integral observation. Data collection is scheduled to continue at some point in the future.

First year of collection
1999

Stratification if applicable
Not applicable

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
All jobs in Dutch companies (within Dutch tax regime)

Age range
No age restrictions

Statistical representativeness
Special group, please specify

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Detailed study of: Salary, type of job, duration of job, part-time factor, industry, location of establishment employer, company size.

Linkage

Standardisation
Standardised wage concepts

Possibility of linkage among databases
Linkable to other person databases through anonymised personal number

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable

Breaks
Break in 2001 due to the addition of new variables: type of work agreement, part time factor. In 2006, there was a methodological break because of a new data source (Fibase/VZA/EWL -> Polisadministratie).

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
Most concepts are consistent in time.

Governance

Contact information
Department of Demographic and Socioeconomic Statistics
Statistics Netherlands
Henri Faasdreef 312
2492 JP Den Haag Netherlands Phone: Infoservice: 003188 570 70 70
Email: info(at)cbs.nl
Url:

Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected annually and is available 18 months after collection.