SWIP - Swedish income panel 2003, assessment family

The Swedish income panel was originally set up in the beginning of the 90s to make studies of how immigrants assimilate in the Swedish labour market possible. It consists of large samples of foreign-born and Swedish-born persons. Income information from registers is added for nearly 40 years. In addition income information relating to spouses is also available as well as for a subset of mothers and fathers. This makes it possible to construct measures of household income based on a relatively narrow definition. However, starting in 1998 there is also more information making it possible to include children over 18 and their incomes in the family. By matching with some different additional registers information has been added for people who have been unemployed or involved in labour market programmes during the 90s, on causes of deaths for people who have deceased since 1978 and on recent arrived immigrants from various origins. It has turned out that the data-base is quite useful for analysing research-questions other than originally motivating construction of the panel. The panel has been used for cross country comparisons of immigrants in the labour market and to analyse income mobility for different breakdowns of the population, and analyses the development in cohort income. There have been analyses of social assistance receipt among immigrants as well as studies of intergeneration mobility of income, the labour market situation of young immigrants and the second generation of immigrants. On-going work includes evaluation of labour market training programmes and studies of early retirement among immigrants. Planned work includes studies of the economic transition from child to adulthood during the 80s and 90s as well as studies of how frequent immigrant children are subject to measures under the Social Service Act and the Care of Youth Persons Act. The potentials of the Swedish Income Panel can be understood if one compares it with better known income-panels in other countries. For example SWIP covers more years and has a larger sample than the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). On the other hand, the fact that information is obtained from registers only makes this Swedish panel less rich in variables. There are striking parallels between the Gothenburg Income Panel and the labour market panel at the Centre for Labour Market and Social Research in Aarhus for the Danish population.瑞典收入面板（Swedish Income Panel，简称SWIP）最初于20世纪90年代初创建，初衷是为开展移民在瑞典劳动力市场的同化情况研究提供数据支撑。该数据集涵盖大量外国出生与瑞典本土出生人群的样本，收录了近40年的官方登记收入信息。此外，还包含部分样本的配偶以及部分父母群体的收入信息，这使得基于相对狭义定义构建家庭收入核算指标成为可能。 不过自1998年起，新增的统计信息可将18周岁以上子女及其收入纳入家庭收入统计范畴。通过与多类补充行政登记数据进行匹配，该数据集补充了以下三类信息：一是20世纪90年代期间失业或参与劳动力市场项目的人群相关数据；二是1978年以来已故人群的死亡原因数据；三是来自不同来源地的新近移民相关信息。 后续研究显示，该数据库不仅可用于最初设立该面板的研究主题，还可支撑诸多其他研究问题的分析。该面板已被应用于多项研究：包括移民劳动力市场表现的跨国比较、不同人口分组的收入流动性分析，以及同批出生队列的收入变化趋势研究。相关研究还涵盖了移民社会救助申领情况分析、收入代际流动研究、青年移民劳动力市场状况及移民第二代群体的相关研究。当前正在推进的研究包括劳动力市场培训项目评估以及移民提前退休情况研究；未来规划的研究方向则包括：20世纪80至90年代儿童向成年阶段的经济转型过程研究，以及移民儿童受《社会服务法》与《青少年照料法》相关措施规制的频次研究。 若将瑞典收入面板与其他国家知名度较高的收入面板进行对比，便可明晰其研究潜力。例如，相较于德国社会经济面板（German Socio-Economic Panel，简称GSOEP），瑞典收入面板（SWIP）的覆盖年限更长、样本规模更大。但另一方面，由于该面板仅采用行政登记数据作为信息来源，其变量丰富度相对不足。奥胡斯劳动力市场与社会研究中心针对丹麦人群构建的劳动力市场面板，与哥德堡收入面板（Gothenburg Income Panel）存在诸多显著相似之处。