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"Linking survey data with administrative records is becoming more common in the social sciences in recent years. Regulatory frameworks require the respondent's consent to this procedure in most cases. Similar to non-response, non-consent may lead to selective samples and could pose a problem when using the combined data for analyses. Thus investigating the selectivity and the determinants of the consent decision is important in order to find ways to reduce non-consent. Adapting the survey participation model by Groves and Couper (1998), this paper identifies different areas influencing the respondents' willingness to consent. In addition to control variables at the individual and household level, two further areas of interest are included: the interview situation and the characteristics of the interviewer. A multilevel approach highlights the importance of the interviewer for the consent decision: the empty model shows an intra-class correlation of 55%, which can be reduced to 35% in a full model including interviewer variables. An additional analysis including measures of interviewer performance shows that there are further unobserved interviewer characteristics that influence the respondent's consent decision. The results suggest that although respondent and household characteristics are important for the consent decision, a large part of the variation in the data is explained by the interviewers. This finding stresses the importance of the interviewers not only as an integral part in data collection efforts, but also as the direct link to gain a respondent's consent for linking survey data with administrative records." (author's abstract)

Die Auswirkungen der Geburtenfolge auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung der Bevölkerung im späteren Lebensverlauf wurden bisher nur unzureichend untersucht. Die Autoren gehen daher anhand von SHARELIFE-Daten der Frage nach, inwieweit der Einstieg in den Ruhestand von Männern und Frauen mit dem elterlichen Status und der Kinderzahl assoziiert ist, und ob dieser innerhalb der Wohlfahrtsregime in Europa mit ihren unterschiedlichen Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten und Rentenansprüchen für Eltern variiert. Ihre Analysen zeigen, dass Mütter häufiger als kinderlose Frauen dazu neigen, ihr Erwerbsleben früh zu beenden, während sich Väter zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt aus dem Beruf zurückziehen als andere Männer. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Geburt und vorzeitigem Ruhestand scheint besonders stark bei Frauen ausgeprägt, welche unter einem sozialdemokratischen oder post-kommunistischen Wohlfahrtsstaats-Regime leben, das heißt in Ländern, die eine relativ hohe Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen aufweisen. (ICI).

Interviewer effects are found across all types of interviewer-mediated surveys crossing disciplines and countries. While studies describing interviewer effects are manifold, identifying characteristics explaining these effects has proven difficult due to a lack of data on the interviewers. This paper proposes a conceptual framework of interviewer characteristics for explaining interviewer effects and its operationalization in an interviewer questionnaire. The framework encompasses four dimensions of interviewer characteristics: interviewer attitudes, interviewers' own behaviour, interviewers' experience with measurements, and interviewers' expectations. Our analyses of the data collected from interviewers working on the fourth wave of SHARE Germany show that the above measures distinguish well between interviewers.

SHARE is a unique panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks covering most of the European Union and Israel. To date, SHARE has collected three panel waves (2004, 2006, 2010) of current living circumstances and retrospective life histories (2008, SHARELIFE); 6 additional waves are planned until 2024. The more than 150 000 interviews give a broad picture of life after the age of 50 years, measuring physical and mental health, economic and non-economic activities, income and wealth, transfers of time and money within and outside the family as well as life satisfaction and well-being. The data are available to the scientific community free of charge at www.share-project.org after registration. SHARE is harmonized with the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and has become a role model for several ageing surveys worldwide. SHARE's scientific power is based on its panel design that grasps the dynamic character of the ageing process, its multidisciplinary approach that delivers the full picture of individual and societal ageing, and its cross-nationally ex-ante harmonized design that permits international comparisons of health, economic and social outcomes in Europe and the USA.