Education as a Lifelong Process
(2013)Abstract
The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) develops and conducts
panel surveys in six age cohorts. The data produced by these panel
studies are, accompanied by two additional cross-sectional studies on
school reforms, edited, documented and disseminated to the scientific
community. As a result, NEPS Scientific Use Files establish a
comprehensive base for research on educational trajectories, their
outcomes and implications. Researchers from various disciplines
(including sociology, psychology, educational research, economics and
demographics) are already using NEPS data to further insights into
educational development.
In order to further enhance the usefulness of the data, NEPS, in close
cooperation with the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal
Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB),
works on linking the surveys' data to administrative employment data
held at the FDZ. This includes efforts in probabilistic record linkage
to identify a respondent's records in the administrative data. As a
result, the NEPS Data Center and the FDZ will jointly provide linked
data in the future.