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vom Berge, P., Burghardt, A. and Trenkle, S. (2013). Sample-of-IntegratedLabour -Market-Biographies Regional-File 1975-2010 (SIAB-R 7510). Tech. rep., Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Appendices A Data Appendix This appendix briefly describes the variables used for each of the datasets and lists the numbers of observations after the sample selection steps. A.1 PSID Variables Demographic and Socioeconomic Head and Relationship to Head. We identify current heads and spouses as those individuals within the family unit with Sequence Number equal to 1 and 2, respectively. In the PSID, the man is labelled as the household head and the woman as his spouse. Only when the household is headed by a woman alone is she considered the head. If the family is a split-off family from a sampled family, then a new head is selected.