Summary information

Study title

Adult Education Survey (AES 2014 - Germany)

Creator

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Berlin

Study number / PID

ZA5981, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.12276 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

Content Learning in adulthood. Employment status. Characteristics of the main professional activity. Professional situation. Educational background: regular education (Part 1: school, Part 2: training). Participation in various forms of learning in the last 12 months. Formal Education (FED). Regular courses of education, further training and educational events. Informal learning (INF) in the last 12 months. Access to information on learning and training opportunities. 1. Job-related information: employment status; employment situation; unemployment benefit; paid employment; previous and current employment; year of last employment. 2. Characteristics of the main professional activity: weekly working time; full-time/part-time; occupation (classification of occupations according to ISCO 2008); completed vocational training required; activity corresponds to the learned occupation; differentiated occupation; career group; start of self-employment; group of self-employed persons; employment of permanent employees; number of employees in the company; fewer than 10 or more persons employed in the company; sector (NACE code); type of enterprise; sector; enterprise is part of a larger enterprise; start of employment with the last employer; change of job; more diversified activity; change of employer; change of occupation; fixed-term or permanent employment contract; monthly gross income; unemployment last year; duration of unemployment in months; attitude to own school time (scale: fun in school lessons, school-leaving certificate achieved, truancy). 3. Educational background: regular education a) School: highest school leaving certificate according to ISCED97; school location; school type; type of school leaving certificate; school attendance abroad: school successfully completed with or without a certificate; type of correspondence between the foreign school leaving certificate and a German school leaving certificate; targeted school leaving certificate upon leaving...
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Methodology

Data collection period

13/05/2014 - 14/07/2014

Country

Germany

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage
Probability Sample: Multistage Sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)
Face-to-face inerview: CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview)

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2015

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

Related publications

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