Table 1
Overview of surveys and tests.
| WAVE | MODE/METHOD | START | END | COMMENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PAPI (recruitment survey) & CATI | 30.11.2010 | 28.01.2012 | |
| 1T | Competence test | 21.03.2011 | 22.07.2011 | Group administered PBA |
| 2 | CAWI | 26.10.2011 | 11.12.2011 | |
| 3 | CATI | 10.04.2012 | 18.08.2012 | |
| 4 | CAWI | 29.10.2012 | 17.12.2012 | |
| 5 | CATI | 19.03.2013 | 03.08.2013 | |
| 5T | Competence test | 02.05.2013 | 31.07.2013 | Mode experiment: group administered PBA/E-Pen/CBA & individual CBWA |
| 6 | CAWI | 29.10.2013 | 15.12.2013 | |
| 7T | Competence test | 24.01.2014 | 06.04.2014 | Individual subject-specific PBA |
| 7a) | CATI | 28.04.2014 | 13.09.2014 | |
| 8b) | CAWI | 29.10.2014 | 07.12.2014 | |
| 9 | CATI | 27.04.2015 | 31.08.2015 | |
| 10 | CATI | 21.03.2016 | 07.08.2016 | |
| 11 | CAWI | 02.11.2016 | 11.12.2016 | |
| 12 | CAPI CATI | 27.02.2017 25.04.2017 | 04.08.2017 23.09.2017 | Mode experiment: CAPI/CATI |
| 12T | Competence test | 27.02.2017 | 30.11.2017 | Mode experiment: individual CBA and CBWA |
| 13 | CATI | 23.04.2018 | 01.09.2018 | |
| 14 | CAWI | 07.11.2018 | 16.12.2018 | |
| 15 | CATI | 18.03.2019 | 03.08.2019 | |
| 16 | CATI | 16.03.2020 | 01.08.2020 | |
| CAWI | 13.05.2020 | 22.06.2020 | Additional NEPS survey on the Corona pandemic, published since version 14.1.0 of the Scientific Use File (SUF) | |
| 17 | CAWI | 04.11.2020 | 11.01.2021 | |
| 18c) | CATI | 22.03.2021 | 21.08.2021 | |
| 19 | CATI + CAWI | 19.04.2022 | 17.09.2022 13.11.2022 | Combined CATI and CAWI survey |
| a) Without the LAP oversample; b) Additional questions specific to teaching for the first time (see Chapter 2.1 and 2.5); c) For internal reasons, the field period ended for the LAP oversample on 19.06.2021 and the additional questions specific to teaching were suspended. | ||||
Table 2
Size of the LAP target group by status (wave 8 to wave 17).
| WAVE | VARIABLE | TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMME | PREPARATORY SERVICE | EMPLOYED AS TEACHER | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8a) | tg60011 | 2,757 | 2,757 | ||
| 9b) | tg60014 & tg64012 | 2,870 | 341 | 3,211 | |
| 10 | tg60022_v1, tg60015 & tg64012 | 1,679 | 857 | 282 | 2,818 |
| 11 | tg60012_v1 | 905 | 776 | 291 | 1,972 |
| 12 | tg60013_v1 | 823 | 1,042 | 691 | 2,556 |
| 13 | tg60013_g1v2 | 420 | 686 | 1,023 | 2,129 |
| 14 | tg60017_v1 | 222 | 304 | 840 | 1,366 |
| 15 | tg60013_g1v2 | 244 | 318 | 1,279 | 1,841 |
| 16 | tg60013 | 135 | 152 | 1,444 | 1,731 |
| 17 | tg60017 | 109 | 82 | 1,197 | 1,388 |
| a) Information on participants in preparatory service or working as teachers not shown separately; b) Information on participants working as teachers not shown separately. | |||||
Table 3
Overview of NEPS SC5/LAP datasets (as of February 2023).
| DATA FILEa) | CONTENT |
|---|---|
| Basics | Basic information about participants, such as sociodemographic characteristics |
| Biography | Integrated and edited life course data; serves to facilitate the analysis of complex life course data |
| CohortProfile | Meta information for all participants and waves, such as participation status and interview date |
| EditionBackups | Information on single values that have been changed or modified in the data edition process |
| Education | Longitudinal information on transitions in participants’ educational history |
| MethodsCATI | Paradata from the CATI interviews, e.g., interview duration, interviewer characteristics |
| MethodsCAWI | Paradata from the CAWI interviews, e.g., interview duration |
| MethodsCompetencies | Paradata from the competence tests, e.g., test date, interviewer characteristics |
| pTargetCATI | Data from CATI questionnaires |
| pTargetCAWI | Data from CAWI questionnaires |
| pTargetMicrom | Small-scale regional indicators of participants’ place of residence; only available via on-site access |
| spChild | Information on participants biological, foster, and adopted children |
| spChildCohab | Data on cohabitation spells with children |
| spCourses | Information on courses/trainings taken during employment, unemployment, parental leave, and other episodes |
| spEmp | Information on employment episodes |
| spFurtherEdu1 | Information on further courses since the last interview that have not been reported elsewhere |
| spFurtherEdu2 | Additional information on two randomly selected course from the ‘spCourses’ and ‘spFurtherEdu1’ modules |
| spGap | Information on gaps in the individual life course identified by a check module (e.g., type of gap) |
| spInternship | Information on internship episodes that took place after completing school and before or during higher education |
| spMilitary | Data on episodes of military/civilian service and voluntary gap years |
| spParLeave | Data on parental leave episodes |
| spPartner | Data on the participants’ partnership history and basic information about the participants’ partners |
| spSchool | Data on participants’ general school history |
| spSchoolExtExam | Information on school certificates acquired by recognition or external examination |
| spSibling | Basic information on participants’ siblings reported in wave 1 |
| spUnemp | Data on unemployment episodes |
| spVocBreaks | Information on breaks further education and training with a special focus on higher education |
| spVocExtExam | Information on vocational education certificates acquired outside the regular German educational system, e.g., certificates acquired abroad or as an external examinee |
| spVocPrep | Data on episodes of vocational preparation after general education |
| spVocTrain | Information on participants’ vocational education history covering all further (vocational and/or academic) trainings |
| StudyStates | Information on participants’ higher education phase or status, derived from ‘spVocTrain’; e.g., type of degree acquired, ongoing/completed degree programme |
| Weights | Sample weights, cluster and stratification variables |
| xEcoCAPI | Data of a subject-specific competence test in business administration, conducted on a subsample of students in economics |
| xInstitution | Context data for all higher education institutions (e.g., size, regional unemployment rate) and subject areas within institutions (e.g., number of female and male first-year students, number of professors); most variables only available on-site |
| xPlausibleValues | Plausible values of the competence data stored in ‘xTargetCompetencies’ |
| xTargetCompetencies | Data from competence tests in reading (German), mathematics, science, ICT, English, and domain-general cognitive functioning |
| xTargetCORONA | Data collected in an additional survey in May/June 2020 regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on participants’ life |
| NEPS-SC5-ADIAB | Combined NEPS SC5 data and administrative data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB); available in restricted access environments |
| a) The complete names of the datasets consist of (1) an indicator for the starting cohort (e.g., SC5), (2) the unique file name indicating content and type of data (e.g., Basics), (3) an indicator for the confidentiality level (D = download; R = remote access; O = on-site access) and (4) an indicator for the release version. For example, the ‘Basics’ file of NEPS SC5, download version, SUF release 17.0.0 is labelled ‘SC5_Basics_D_17-0-0’. Unique file names with the prefix ‘x’ refer to cross-sectional data, the prefix ‘sp’ indicate spell data, and the prefix ‘p’ panel data. Datasets without a prefix are generated by the LIfBi Research Data Center. | |
Table 4
Overview of relevant documents and materials (as of February 2023).
| DOCUMENT/MATERIAL | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| NEPSPlorera) | Tool for searching through survey instruments of all NEPS Starting Cohorts |
| Glossaryb) | Overview of the NEPS terminology and abbreviations and specific terms in the German education and occupation system |
| Questionnairesb) | Provided as SUF and field versions (SUF versions in German and English) |
| Field reportsb) | Information on the data collection process |
| Interviewer manualsb) | Information for the interviewers on the process and content of the interviews |
| Check module for life course datab) | Description of the module that checks the life course data reported in CATI for gaps between and overlaps of episodes |
| Information on competence testsb) | Description of the measured constructs, data, and psychometric properties |
| Data manualb) | Overview of the panel waves and data |
| Codebookb) | Overview of all variables measured |
| Semantic data structure fileb) | Contains meta-data stored in the SUF; useful to explore the data |
| Release notesb) | Information on known bugs, solutions, and changes compared to previous versions |
| Anonymisation manualb)c) | Description of the anonymisation procedure; overview of restricted variables |
| Sample, weights, nonresponseb) | Information on the sampling process and the construction of the weighting variables |
| Merging matrixb) | Instruction of how to link information from different datasets |
| Non-traditional studentsb) | Documentation of the variable tg24150 (non-traditional students) |
| Context datab) | Description of the context data for higher education institutions (file ‘xInstitution’) |
| Regional datab) | Documentation of the regional structural information; can be merged on-site |
| Immigrants in the NEPSd) | Information on how immigrants were identified and categorised in the NEPS |
| Special Stata commandse) | NEPS-specific Stata commands in the package ‘NEPStools’ |
| a) https://www.neps-data.de/Data-Center/Overview-and-Assistance/NEPSplorer. b) https://www.neps-data.de/Data-Center/Data-and-Documentation/Start-Cohort-Students/Documentation. c) https://www.neps-data.de/Data-Center/Data-Access/Sensitive-Information. d) Olczyk et al., 2016. e) https://www.neps-data.de/Data-Center/Overview-and-Assistance/Stata-Tools. | |