A tale of two data sets: comparing German administrative and survey data using wage inequality as an example

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 Summary statistics SOEP-Pure 2 sample

No. of observations	Mean wage	Median wage	Mean age
204,560	34,369	30,250	43.01

Source: own calculations, SOEP-Core.v37.EU, years 2001–2020
Wage: nominal annual wage of the main occupation in euro, mean over (median of) all observations of the sample. Age: mean age in years
Only wages above the marginal earnings threshold are taken into account