The IAB job survey is carried out nationwide by the Economics & Data ED23 GmbH on behalf of the Institute for Employment
Research (IAB), the research institution of the Federal Employment
Agency (BA). The legal basis for this is § 282 Abs. 5 SGB III. It is a
written main survey and three possible telephone follow-up surveys. TM
Quadrat GmbH acts as a service provider for the short follow-up
surveys in the first three quarters of the following year. All
participating institutes bear the responsibility under data protection
law and work in accordance with the extensive legal provisions on data
protection.
Origin of addresses
The following information is transmitted to the Economics & Data survey
institute: name and address of the company, company number, number of
employees subject to social security contributions as of 31.12. of the
previous year, industry identifiers and existing contact information
of a contact person. The legal basis for this is Article 28 GDPR.
What happens to your data?
After you have returned the completed questionnaire to us, Economics & Data
will separate it from your address. This remains with Economics & Data until
the end of the investigation and is then deleted. Of course, this also
applies if you answer the questionnaire online. The information
provided by all companies is processed anonymously in a large data set
in which it is combined with information that is already available at
the Federal Employment Agency about the company. The merging takes
place exclusively via an anonymous code number, i.e. without name and
address.
This data set is then evaluated at the IAB for scientific purposes. In
principle, the following applies: None of the scientists is able to
recognize from which company which information originates, address
information is not accessible to them. The presentation of all results
is completely anonymous. This means that no one can see from the
results what answers individual companies or administrations have
given. This also applies to the short telephone repeat surveys in the
first three quarters of the following year. The identification of
individual companies or administrations is also not possible here.
Voluntary participation
Your participation is of course voluntary, and you have the right to
withdraw your participation at any time. In the event of
non-participation or revocation, you will not incur any disadvantages.
The revocation does not affect the previous processing.
Your rights and our guarantees
You can assert the following rights with regard to your survey data at
any time:
In case of complaints, you can also contact the responsible data
protection supervisory authority. The research institutes involved in
this project guarantee you:
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Your information will only be evaluated in anonymous form;
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the address of your company will in no case be passed on to third
parties;
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the scientists involved in the collection and evaluation are bound
by data secrecy.
Answer questions about data protection:
Dr. Ben Kriechel, Head of Survey and Data Protection Officer, Economics & Data ED23 GmbH, Lindwurmstraße 9, 80337 Munich. Phone: 089 9901566-27
Dr. Alexander Kubis, Coordinator IAB Job Survey, Institute for Employment Research of the
Federal Employment Agency, Regensburger Straße 104, 90478 Nuremberg.
Data Protection Officer of the Federal Employment Agency:
Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Stabsstelle Datenschutz, Regensburger Straße 104, 90478 Nürnberg. Contact
Data protection related complaints can also be sent to the Landesdatenschutzbeauftrage. Or to the national coordinator:
Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI), Graurheindorfer Str. 153, 53117 Bonn. poststelle@bfdi.bund.de
