Linking information on unemployment benefit sanctions from different datasets about welfare receipt: proceedings and research potential

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 4 Matching information on sanctions from ALLEGRO and UB II Income and Benefit Statistics datasets

	Months	Individuals
(1) All	408,115	64,869
(2) Sanctioned according to ALLEGRO and LST-S	349,405	60,593
(3) Sanctioned only according to ALLEGRO	49,423	19,762
(4) Sanctioned only according to LST-S	2752	867
(5) Number of sanctions in ALLEGRO > Number of sanctions in LST-S	6078	3428
(6) Number of sanctions in ALLEGRO < Number of sanctions in LST-S	457	245

This table shows the mismatches for the whole sample. Implemented sanctions (Row 2) include months in which information about the occurrence and number of sanctions corresponds between ALLEGRO and LST-S. No plausibility check can be provided if the type of sanction matches since the LST-S does not provide information on the type of sanctions. Months in which an alternative reason could lead to a mismatch are discarded in Rows 3 and 4. Note that while each calendar month is only counted once per individual, individuals can be observed with different calendar months more than once within but also across rows. Restrictions of dataset 3 apply (see Appendix 2)
Source: IEB V14.00.00–190,927, LHG V10.00.00–201,904, LST-S V10.00.00–201,904, data from the data warehouse (DWH) of the FEA January 2020. Own calculations