A guide to preparing the sample of integrated labour market biographies (SIAB, version 7519 v1) for scientific analysis

Abstract The Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) is the most frequently requested data set provided by Research Data Centre (FDZ) Federal Employment Agency (BA) at Institute for (IAB). However, preparing SIAB scientific analysis a complicated and error-prone task. This article explains steps necessary to prepare latest version (7519 v1) gives examples how preparation can be done. Among other things, it shows impute right-censored wages, deal with parallel employment episodes, clean up set. supplementary material this contains extensively annotated Stata do-files replicate our preparation.