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

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 6 Summary statistics SIAB-Pure 2 sample

No. of observations	Mean wage	Median wage	Mean age
10,376,844	96.59	82.38	42.41

Source: own calculations, SIAB 7519, years 2000–2019
Wage: nominal daily wage 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