Documentation Material
The
first ECHP wave took place in 1994 and Austria was not participating. The
first Austrian ECHP wave started in 1995. Therefore the EUROSTAT wave 2
corresponds to the Austrian wave 1. (EUROSTAT wave 3 corresponds with wave 2).
EUROSTAT
produces the UDB, a harmonised, comparative dataset for 15 EU
Member States. Currently there are five waves in the UDB (User Data Base) format available (including the Austrian
wave 1 to 4). The sixth wave is expected to be released in autumn 2002.
Documentation and Codebooks for the UDB version can be downloaded from
the CIRCA
homepage, provided by EUROSTAT.
The
Austrian ECHP data is available for five waves (EUROSTAT wave 2 to 6) from
1995 to 1999. There are two databases which are produced and provided by the
ICCR. The completed Austrian data get translated to the EUROSTAT format by the
ICCR and transmitted to EUROSTAT and after anonymisation available as the Austrian
Production Database to users. Additionally a database with
Constructed Key variables is provided. The key variables database contains imputed and aggregated income
components, similar to the UDB and key classification variables, withdrawn
from the precedent survey year, in accordance with the income reference year.
Codebooks
are available in two formats. The Austrian version and the EUROSTAT version.
The
Austrian questionnaire is in German, and gives more detailed information on
income and has some specific national questions included. The EUROSTAT
version corresponds to the Austrian production database provided by the ICCR.
Each
wave consists of four data files:
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The
Household Register (D-file)
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The
Personal Register (R-File)
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The
Household Questionnaire (H-file)
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The
Personal Questionnaire (P-file)
Subsequent you find the codebooks of each survey year in the Austrian and
the EUROSTAT format. Each codebook includes all variables (labels, codes,
routing and classifications) of the four data files. Additionally you find a documentation of various classifications used in
the data files (NUTS, ISCO-88, NACE, etc.).
Codebooks Austria - more...
Codebooks EUROSTAT -
more...
Documentation Key
Variables - more...
Correspondence of
Variables - more...
Classifications - more...
Tables of Frequencies
- more...
Tables of Frequencies for
Key Variables - more...
Data Alerts - more...