SHARE-RV

SHARE-RV

Release 8.0.0
Date 11 March 2022
DOI 10.6103/SHARE.SHARE-RV.800

SHARE-RV: Linking German SHARE Survey Data with Administrative Records

SHARE-RV stands for the direct linkage of survey data of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with administrative records of the German Pension Insurance (DRV). 

SHARE-RV is a project within the German subsample of SHARE which started as a pilot study in 2009 and is now integrated as a standard module of the German SHARE questionnaire. Upon respondents’ consent, the German Pension Insurance provides the administrative records which can be linked to the SHARE interviews of the same person. 

The combination of accurate administrative data and profound information about different aspects of the respondents’ lives in SHARE-RV provide a wide range of research possibilities.

The great advantage of SHARE-RV lies in the possibility to combine administrative data of the German Pension Insurance and contextual factors of the respondents. Hence, SHARE-RV enables the investigation of connections between various aspects of respondents´ lives and their working history or their socio-economic status in later life. In addition administrative data of persons living in the same household can be identified and analysed simultaneously. 

The Release 8.0.0 of the administrative data is available now. To get access to the administrative data, please register at the Research Data Center of the German Pension Insurance. After successful registration you will receive a dataset which can be linked easily to the SHARE survey data. If any problems regarding data access occur, please feel free to contact Imke Herold.

Citation of the dataset

Forschungsdatenzentrum der Rentenversicherung, Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik (2022). SHARE-RV. Release version: 8.0.0. SHARE-ERIC. Dataset. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.SHARE-RV.800

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Börsch-Supan, A., B. Alt and T. Bucher-Koenen (2015):  Early retirement for the underprivileged? Using the record-linked SHARE-RV data to evaluate the most recent German pension reform. In: Börsch-Supan, A., T. Kneip, H. Litwin, M. Myck and G. Weber (eds.): Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society, 267–278. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Börsch-Supan, A., T. Bucher-Koenen, I. Ferrari, V. Kutlu-Koc and J. Rausch (2016): The development of the pension gap and German households' saving behavior. MEA Discussion Paper (02-2016). Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA). Munich.

Börsch-Supan, A., T. Bucher-Koenen, N. Goll and F. Hanemann (2019): Targets missed: Three case studies exploiting the linked SHARE-RV data. MEA Discussion Paper (04-2019). Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA). Munich.

Börsch-Supan, A., C. Czaplicki, S. Friedel, I. Herold, J. Korbmacher and T. Mika (2018): SHARE-RV: Linked Data to Study Aging in Germany. In: Winker, P. (ed.-in-chief), v. Büttner, T., Riphahn, R., Smolny, W., Wagner, J. (eds.): Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Bühler, B., Möhring, K. & Weiland, A.P. (2022): Assessing dissimilarity of employment history information from survey and administrative data using sequence analysis techniques. Qual Quant. doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01333-9

Czaplicki, C. and T. Stern (2016): Sozialstrukturelle Determinanten von Tabakkonsum im Alter. RVaktuell, 2/2016: 39-46.

Czaplicki, C. and J. C. Post (2015): SHARE-RV: Neues Analysepotential für die Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs von Fertilität und Erwerbstätigkeit in den Lebensverläufen von Männern und Frauen. In: DGD - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie e. V. (eds.): Das Potenzial amtlicher Daten für die demografische Forschung und die Familienforschung. DGD-Online-Publikation 01/2015, Bonn.

Czaplicki, C. and J. Korbmacher (2010): SHARE-RV: Verknüpfung von Befragungsdaten des Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe mit administrativen Daten der Rentenversicherung, DRV-Schriften 55/2010: 28-37.

Dolls, M., P. Doerrenberg, A. Peichl and H. Stichnoth (2018): Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions? Journal of Public Economics, online first.

Etgeton, S., Fischer, B., & Ye, H. (2021): The effect of increasing retirement age on households’ savings and consumption expenditures (No. crctr224_2021_255v1). University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.

Fechter, C. (2019): The Role of Health in Flexible Working Arrangements in Germany. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie. DOI: 10.1007/s00391-019-01551-1.

Goll, N., F. Hanemann (2020): Financial Incentives and Heterogeneity in Retirement Behavior - An Empirical Analysis Based on SHARE-RV Data. MEA Discussion Paper (21-2020). Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA). Munich.

Herold, I., Y. Pettinicchi, D. Schmidutz (2021): Harmonising Record Linkage Procedures in SHARE. In: Bergmann, M., A. Börsch-Supan: SHARE Wave 8 Methodology: Collecting Cross-National Survey Data in Times of COVID-19 (S. 193-197). Munich: MEA, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.

Herold, I. (2020): SHARE-RV: Erste Ergebnisse der achten Erhebungswelle. RVaktuell 9/10/2020.

Korbmacher, J. and M. Schröder (2013): Consent when Linking Survey Data with Administrative Records: The Role of the Interviewer, Survey Research Methods 7(2): 115-131.

Korbmacher, J. and C. Czaplicki (2013): Linking SHARE Survey Data with Administrative Records: First Experiences from SHARE-Germany. In: Malter, F. and A. Börsch-Supan (eds.): SHARE Wave 4: Innovations & Methodology, 47-53. Munich: Munich Center for the Economics of Ageing.

Korbmacher, J. (2014): Recall error in the year of retirement. SHARE Working Paper Series 21-2014. SHARE-ERIC. Munich.

Kreyenfeld, M., Mika, T., & Radenacker, A. (2018): Der Gender Pension Gap in Ost-und Westdeutschland: Welchen Einfluss hat eine Scheidung auf die Alterssicherung? Sozialer Fortschritt, Bd. 67, Heft 11-12: S. 973-996.

Kreyenfeld, M., Schmauk, S., & Mika, T. (2022): The gender pension gap in Germany: Is divorce a gender-equaliser? Ageing and Society, 1-21. doi:10.1017/S0144686X21001513

Krolage, C. (2020): Essays in Empirical Public Economics. Dissertation LMU München.

Mäcken, J. (2019): Work Stress among Older Employees in Germany: Effects on Health and Retirement Age. Plos One 14(2): e0211487. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211487.

Mäcken, J. (2020): Antecedents and consequences of retirement: The role of health, work-related stress, and education. Dissertation Universität zu Köln.

Mika, T. and C. Czaplicki (2017): Fertility and Women’s Old-Age Income in Germany. In: Kreyenfeld, M. and D. Konietzka (eds.): Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences, 331-349. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Mika, T., C. Czaplicki and J.C. Post (2016): Alterseinkommen von Müttern und kinderlosen Frauen im Haushaltskontext. RVaktuell 2016: 117-123.

Mika, T. and C. Czaplicki (2010): SHARE-RV: Eine Datengrundlage für Analysen zu Alterssicherung, Gesundheit und Familie auf der Basis des Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe und der Daten der Deutschen Rentenversicherung, RVaktuell 12/2010: 396-400.

Möhring, K. and A. Weiland (2018): Ausgleich oder Verschärfung von Einkommensrisiken? Lebensläufe und Alterseinkommen in Deutschland aus der Paarperspektive. (Compensating or exacerbating income risks? CVs and age income in Germany from a couple's perspective.) Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 64(4): 463–493. DOI: 10.1515/zsr-2018-0023.

Möhring, K., A. Weiland (2021): Couples‘ Life Courses and Women’s Income in Later Life: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis of Linked Lives in Germany. European Sociological Review, jcab048.

Möhring, K., A. Weiland, B. Bühler and K. Kuhn (2020): Lebensläufe und Alterseinkommen von Frauen nach Familienstand - Ergebnisse aus SHARE-RV. Deutsche Rentenversicherung 75 (2).

Weiland (2021): Married Mothers’ Bargaining Power and Their Accrual of Pension Entitlements: Evidence From East and West Germany. Work, Aging and Retirement, waab009.

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