Welfare receipt misreporting in survey data and its consequences for state dependence estimates: new insights from linked administrative and survey data

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Welfare benefit recipients and their activities 2016 (annual average)

Welfare benefit recipients and their activities		Total (in 1000)
Households		3267
Recipients		5925
Incapable of working		1613
Recipients capable of working		4312
Unemployed recipients		1777
Not unemployed recipients		2535
	thereof
	Participants in labour market policy measures	495
	Employed recipients	682
	In Education	360
	Care for relatives or children	295
	Temporarily incapable of working	300
	Early retirement	162
	Else	241

Source: Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Tabellen, Strukturen der Grundsicherung SGB II (Zeitreihe Monats- und Jahreszahlen ab 2005), Nürnberg, November 2017