...Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure (“Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe - EVS”) and Insurance Account Sample (”Versi-cherungskonten-stichprobe - VSKT”)
Authors: Associate Professor Dr. Ralf K. Himmelreicher, Assistant Professor Dr. Carsten Schröder/Locations: Berlin, Kiel
The authors combine survey-data acquried by the Federal Statistical Office (“Statistisches Bundesamt”) – sample survey of income and expenditure (“Einkommens- und Ver-brauchsstichproben - EVS”) – with process-produced longitudinal data acquired by the statu-tory pension scheme – insurance account sample (”Versicherungskontenstichprobe - VSKT”) – in the context of a research project. The project aims at an exploration of questions in the fields of old-age provision and acquisition of personal assets during a lifetime by means of an adequate dataset. The construction of a synthetic panel by a combination of different scien-tific use files of the sample survey of income and expenditure, and of the insurance account sample is a complex task. This is mainly due to the different data collection designs of both datasets, to the underlying population, and to the differences regarding the information con-tent of the respective variables.
