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German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study • 30.03.2020Data and Methodology Report of the First Wave Now Online
Nowadays, an increasing number of persons spend parts of their lives living abroad. The longitudinal study GERPS wants to find out why persons move abroad and how this experience affects their lives. It provides new data for analysing the consequences of international migration for persons’ further life course.
Since March, researchers interested in the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) have access to the data of the first wave. The first wave of GERPS focuses on persons’ lives before migration. Among other things, this includes questions on migration motives, income, job and family.
GERPS surveys 20- to 70- year-old internationally mobile persons with German citizenship. Over 11,000 persons – roughly 4,600 emigrants and 6,400 return migrants – participated in the first wave. The survey took place between November 2018 and February 2019. The Methodology Report of GERPS documents the survey process and the study’s design in detail. Interested researchers can now access the Scientific Use File (SUF) of the first GERPS wave in the GESIS data archive.
Background
The longitudinal study GERPS currently comprises four waves over a period of two years. Its aim is to understand how the lives of internationally mobile persons change shortly after migration. The study is conducted in cooperation between the BiB and the University of Duisburg Essen. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).