Individual Data at WIFO

The processing of individual data from the Federation of Social Insurances and the Public Employment Service Austria (PES) is carried out in close collaboration between researchers and the Data Science department as the INDI-DV team.

The individual data of the Federation of Social Insurances encompass social insurance episodes (including periods of employment, unemployment, retirement, and social insurance contribution bases) and are available from 1972 onwards. The individual data of the Public Employment Service (in particular regarding registrations) are available from 1998 onwards. Both datasets represent (with minor limitations) the totality of employees, unemployed persons, etc. on a daily basis.

The INDI-DV Group at WIFO

For working with administrative mass data, WIFO established the INDI-DV team since 2000. It is responsible for building and further developing the data infrastructure as well as for project-specific data processing. It consists of economists and IT specialists and is supported by scientific assistants.

Environment

• Public Employment Service Austria (PES)
• Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection (BMASGPK)
• Labour Market Database (Arbeitsmarktdatenbank) by PES and BMASGPK

Data Used

Individual data from the Federation of Social Insurances are available from 1972 onwards, parts of the PES data from 1998 onwards. Additional data are linked to the data from the Federation of Social Insurances and the PES on a project-specific basis. The individual data processed at WIFO contain two strongly pronounced dimensions – persons and employer accounts – which are linked via career trajectories. The perspectives of persons and employer accounts form a central aspect of labour market analyses and are often evaluated jointly.