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Surveying recently arrived refugees in Germany: the approach of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Study
3rd Policy Forum on Strength through Diversity (OECD) and Global Education Monitoring Report (UNESCO): Learning from Data 12-13 February 2018, Paris
Nina Rother Research Centre for Migration, Integration and Asylum (FZ) at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF)
• The Situation in Germany 2016
• The IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Survey
• Goals
• Population, Sampling
• Design
• Contents
• Challenges
• Measuring educational outcomes
Asylum Applications in Germany from 1991 to 2017
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Countries of Origins 2016 (First Applications) Total of first applications : 722.370
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• The Situation in Germany 2016
• The IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Survey
• Goals
• Population, Sampling
• Design
• Contents
• Challenges
• Measuring educational outcomes
The German IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Survey Goals
• Filling knowledge gaps
• Obtaining reliable information for politics and administration (e.g. labour market, social und educational policies)
• Surveying the life situation of persons who came to Germany seeking asylum
• Analysis of the impact of legal and institutional frameworks
• Analysis of the effect of programs aiming at the target population
• Representative data for scientific community
• Cooperation between German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Research Centre for Migration, Integration and Asylum at the BAMF (BAMF-FZ)
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The German IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Survey Population
• Persons who came to Germany between 1st of January 2013 and 31st of January 2016 and applied for asylum:
• Asylum seekers
• Individuals granted asylum, recognized refugees or with subsidiary protection
• Individuals whose asylum claims have been rejected but who are permitted to remain in the country temporarily with the status of “Duldung”
• Sampling via German Central Register of Foreigners (AZR), access limited to BAMF-Research Centre
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The German IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Survey Design
• Household concept (typical as in GSOEP): interview with anchor person 18+ and all other household members (from wave 2 on: incl. children )
• Panel study with at least 3 waves 2016, 2017 and 2018
• First wave: 4.500 individuals in 3.200 households; response rate: 50,1%
• Additional refreshment sample: 1.500 additional interviews, first surveyed 2017
• Integration into GSOEP
• Linkage with Employment Data of the IAB
• Mode:
• CAPI, translated into 8 most common languages, audio-files available e.g. for illiterates
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The German IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Survey Contents – Wave 1 +2
• Origin and path to Germany
• Status of asylum procedure
• Accommodation in Germany
• Knowledge, needs and use of support/counseling offers
• Knowledge of languages and attendance of language courses
• Education and vocational training abroad and in Germany
• Labour market participation and income abroad and in Germany
• Health
• Personality, attitudes, values
• Social networks, social participation
• Family Situation
• School Attendance of children
• Cognitive skills
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• The Situation in Germany 2016
• The IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Survey
• Goals
• Population, Sampling
• Design
• Contents
• Challenges
• Measuring educational outcomes
Challenges Measuring educational outcomes
• Basic problems:
• Institutional differences across countries, translation of names of educational qualifications quite impossible Transferability and comparability difficult
• “Collapsed” educational systems
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Challenges Measuring educational outcomes - questionnaire
• “Solution” 1 – abstract measures for education:
• Years of schooling
• School attendance
• School leaving certificate
• Vocational training/university attendance and certificates
Transformation into ISCED11
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Challenges Measuring educational outcomes - ISCED
Educational level upon arrival in Germany
ISCED11 ISCED11 ISCED11 ISCED11 ISCED11 ISCED11 ISCED11 ISCED
Missings 0 1 2 3 4 6 / 7 8
Total 16 19 18 23 3 10 1 11
Citizenship
Syria 8 18 19 29 2 14 1 10 Afghanistan 30 18 12 18 4 3 0 15 Irak 22 23 17 16 1 10 1 10
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Source: IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Survey, 2016, weighted
Challenges Measuring educational outcomes - CAMCES
• Solution 2 – Camces-Tool: Computer-Assisted Measurement and Coding of Educational Qualifications in Surveys (developed by GESIS)
• Elements:
• Country-specific database of educational qualifications
• Questionnaire module currently available in 5 languages
• Software interface to allow database searches and provide context-sensitive response categories
• Universal coding scheme for educational attainment
• Advantages:
• Efficiency through standardization and automation of data collection, coding and harmonization processes
• Better coverage of foreign, rare, and outdated educational qualifications
• More accurate information through detailed measurement
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Challenges Measuring educational outcomes - CAMCES
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Challenges Measuring Educational Outcomes – Other Problems
• Problem: “collapsed” educational systems educational level as proxy for “capacity” does not work anymore
• “Solution”: cognitive skills test (SOEP-numbers-symbols-test)
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To Sum-Up
• IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Refugee Survey is the only representative survey of refugees in Germany benchmark data for other refugee surveys
• Very rich dataset
• Innovative approaches to deal with challenges to ensure high quality data
• 1st wave: available for researchers at data research centre of GSOEP
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More information at…
• Research Reports (also in English): http://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Projekte/DE/DasBAMF/Forschung/Integration/iab-bamf-soep-befragung-gefluechtete.html?nn=1363666
• Questionnaires of IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Study (also in English):
http://panel.gsoep.de/soep-docs/surveypapers/diw_ssp0361.pdf http://panel.gsoep.de/soep-docs/surveypapers/diw_ssp0362.pdf
• CAMCES-Tool: Ortmanns, Verena (o.J.). Computer-assisted measurement and coding of educational qualifications (CAMCES). 2015 International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation. Better: SOEP-documentation (soon to be published)
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Contact information: Federal Office for Migration and Refugees Research Centre Migration, Integration and Asylum Research Field II „Integration and Social Cohesion “
Dr. Nina Rother [email protected] www.bamf.de Tel. +49 (0) 911 943 24700 Fax +49 (0) 911 943 24032
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