This variable reflects the total length of full-time employment in the respondent's career up to the point of the interview in a given year. The variable is created by combining monthly information on employment status from the calendar dataset ARTKALEN (which provides monthly information on activity status since an individual entered the SOEP) and annual information from the biographical dataset PBIOSPE (which provides information on activity status over the individual's life course). PGEXPPT is generated by adding up the years of full-time employment before a respondent's first interview (from PBIOSPE) plus months of full-time employment after their first interview (from ARTKALEN). If there is no monthly calendar data available in a given year of a respondent's career, the annual data from PBIOSPE is used for that year. For annual data, if the year in which a spell started and ended is the same, a spell of 0.5 years is assumed.
PGEXPFT gives the length of full-time employment in years with months in decimal form. This means that a person with 2 years and 6 months of full-time experience, has a PGEXPFT value of 2.5 years.
Individuals without annual data (not contained in PBIOSPE) are only assigned a non-missing value for this variable if they joined SOEP by the age of 18 and if there is calendar data on them in ARTKALEN. Respondents whose life course has been observed completely but with no spell of full-time employment are assigned the code (0). The code (-1) is assigned to all people whose life course has not been observed completely. People with inconsistent information receive a (-3).
Starting from 2021 a new spell-type was introduced in the ARTKALEN dataset, indicating when a respondent was in short-time employment (Kurzarbeit). Since for these spells there is no information on what kind of working-contract the respondent had, but this time formally still counts as work-experience, past information was used. Respondents short-time seplls are counted as full-time experiece when the last available employment spell before the short-time spell was in full-time. Short-time spells were already once introduced in the years 1991 to 1995. Back then, all short-time spells were counted as full-time experience. For consistency reasons this was kept this way for these years in all waves.
Please also see PGEXPPT and PGEXPUE.
This variable reflects the total length of full-time employment in the respondent's career up to the point of the interview in a given year. The variable is created by combining monthly information on employment status from the calendar dataset ARTKALEN (which provides monthly information on activity status since an individual entered the SOEP) and annual information from the biographical dataset PBIOSPE (which provides information on activity status over the individual's life course). PGEXPPT is generated by adding up the years of full-time employment before a respondent's first interview (from PBIOSPE) plus months of full-time employment after their first interview (from ARTKALEN). If there is no monthly calendar data available in a given year of a respondent's career, the annual data from PBIOSPE is used for that year. For annual data, if the year in which a spell started and ended is the same, a spell of 0.5 years is assumed.
PGEXPFT gives the length of full-time employment in years with months in decimal form. This means that a person with 2 years and 6 months of full-time experience, has a PGEXPFT value of 2.5 years.
Individuals without annual data (not contained in PBIOSPE) are only assigned a non-missing value for this variable if they joined SOEP by the age of 18 and if there is calendar data on them in ARTKALEN. Respondents whose life course has been observed completely but with no spell of full-time employment are assigned the code (0). The code (-1) is assigned to all people whose life course has not been observed completely. People with inconsistent information receive a (-3).
Starting from 2021 a new spell-type was introduced in the ARTKALEN dataset, indicating when a respondent was in short-time employment (Kurzarbeit). Since for these spells there is no information on what kind of working-contract the respondent had, but this time formally still counts as work-experience, past information was used. Respondents short-time seplls are counted as full-time experiece when the last available employment spell before the short-time spell was in full-time. Short-time spells were already once introduced in the years 1991 to 1995. Back then, all short-time spells were counted as full-time experience. For consistency reasons this was kept this way for these years in all waves.
Please also see PGEXPPT and PGEXPUE.