Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), Germany - Extended Version – microm data

This data set contains contextual information that describes either the household or the neighbourhood of the respondents and which was not included in the regular PIAAC Scientific Use File (SUF) ´PIAAC, Germany - Reduced Version´ (ZA5845) due to national data privacy legislation. This spatial data comes from microm Micromarketing-Systeme und Consult GmbH in Neuss, Germany. Using an identification number of the respondent, the corresponding information can be merged to the SUF and is available in the Secure Data Center in Cologne, Germany.

The microm data available here include more than 100 variables from the microm domains Sociodemographics & -economics, Consumer Behavior, Area- & Site Planning, and Strategic Segmentation Models. Among other things, the corresponding indicators provide more information about:

- Type of residential area;
- Number of private households and businesses;
- Sociodemographic and -economic characteristics related to social status, unemployment, family structure, number of children, life phases, confessions, share of foreigners or ethnic composition;
- Mobility with regard to the relocation volume, relocation balance, population fluctuation, short and long distance relocations;
- Affinity towards fundraising, communications and print media;
- Sinus Geo-Milieus ®;
- Purchasing power at the level of street sections.

A more detailed description of geo and market data can be found on the <a href=https://www.microm.de/home/ target=_blank>microm homepage </a> (only in German) and in the codebook.