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Daniel Bela

Center for Study Management | Survey Technology

Vita

Research interests

  • Data Management
  • Metadata
  • Paradata
  • Survey Statistics

    • Publications

    2020

    Maaz, K., Artelt, C., Buchholz, S., Roßbach, H.-G., Mudiappa, M., Bayer, M., Bela, D., Gnambs, T., Koberg, T., Kutscher, T., Lockl, K., Würbach, A., & Zielonka, M. (2020). Bildung in Deutschland 2020: Ein indikatorengestützter Bericht mit einer Analyse zu Bildung in einer digitalisierten Welt. 8. wbv Media. https://doi.org/10.3278/6001820gw

    2019

    Antoni, M., Bela, D., & Vicari, B. (2019). Validating earnings in the German National Educational Panel Study: Determinants of measurement accuracy of survey questions on earnings. methods, data, analyses, 13(1), 59–90. https://doi.org/10.12758/mda.2018.08

    2018

    Bela, D. (2018). Filesearch: Stata module to recursively list files matching to a pattern or regular expression. S458532. Boston College Department of Economics. https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:boc:bocode:s458532
    Bela, D. (2018). STATACMDS: Stata module to produce list of all commands known to Stata, including functions and built-ins. S458533. Boston College Department of Economics. https://econpapers.repec.org/software/bocbocode/s458533.htm

    2016

    Bela, D. (2016). Applied large-scale data editing. In H.-P. Blossfeld, J. von Maurice, M. Bayer, & J. Skopek (Hrsg.), Methodological issues of longitudinal surveys: The example of the National Educational Panel Study (S. 649-667). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11994-2_36
    Munz, M., Wenzig, K., & Bela, D. (2016). String coding in a generic framework. In H.-P. Blossfeld, J. von Maurice, M. Bayer, & J. Skopek (Hrsg.), Methodological issues of longitudinal surveys: The example of the National Educational Panel Study (S. 709–726). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11994-2_39
    Skopek, J., Wenzig, K., Bela, D., Koberg, T., Munz, M., & Fuß, D. (2016). Data dissemination, documentation, and user support. In H.-P. Blossfeld, J. von Maurice, M. Bayer, & J. Skopek (Hrsg.), Methodological issues of longitudinal surveys: The example of the National Educational Panel Study (S. 597–609). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11994-2_33
    Wenzig, K., Matyas, C., Bela, D., Barkow, I., & Rittberger, M. (2016). Management of metadata: An integrated approach to structured documentation. In H.-P. Blossfeld, J. von Maurice, M. Bayer, & J. Skopek (Hrsg.), Methodological issues of longitudinal surveys: The example of the National Educational Panel Study (S. 627–647). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11994-2_35

    2015

    Bela, D. (2015). SaveAscii: Stata module to provide wrapper for saveold, incorporating translation of unicode characters to extended ASCII encodings. Boston College Department of Economics. https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s458053.html
    Bela, D. (2015). Useold: Stata module to provide a convenient wrapper for unicode translate in Stata 14+. Boston College Department of Economics. https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s458054.html

    2014

    Bayer, M., Goßmann, F., & Bela, D. (2014). NEPS Technical Report: Generated school type variable t723080_g1 in Starting Cohorts 3 and 4. NEPS Working Paper 46. Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:WP46:1.0

    Selected presentations and lectures

    2021

    Bela, A., & Bela, D. (20. - 22. September 2021). Vocational educational training success: What role do individual skills play? [Vortrag]. SLLS International Online Conference, London, England.
    Bela, A., & Bela, D. (2021, October 7 - 8). Vocational educational training success: What role do inidividual skills play? [Paper presentation]. ECSR Annual Conference 2021, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Bela, D. (9. - 11. Juni 2021). Data edition [Vortrag]. YouthLife project advanced training school: Methods of data collection, Tallinn, Estonia. https://www.tlu.ee/en/taxonomy/term/2155/events/youthlife-project-advanced-training-school-methods-data-collection

    2020

    Bela, A., & Bela, D. (5. - 7. Oktober 2020). The relevance of students' skill level for vocational training success [Vortrag]. Annual Conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, Vilnius, Lithuania. https://www.sllsconference.com/

    2019

    Bela, D. (1. Juli 2019). Automating data management and documentation using shared metadata across projects [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb, Croatia.
    Bela, D. (1. Oktober 2019). Datenschutz, Datensicherheit und technische Zugangsmöglichkeiten [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der 73. NEPS-Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, Deutschland.
    Bela, D. (19. März 2019). Introduction into the survey design and the data structure of Starting Cohort 3 [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 67th NEPS User Training, Bamberg, Germany.

    2018

    Bela, D. (1. April 2018). Einführung in das Erhebungsdesign und die Datenstruktur der SC4 [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen einer NEPS-Nutzerschulung an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Deutschland.
    Bela, D. (1. Dezember 2018). Kurzeinführung in die Dokumenterstellung mit LaTeX [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung "Einführung in das Soziologische Arbeiten", Studiengang Soziologie (Bachelor), Bamberg, Germany.
    Bela, D. (1. Dezember 2018). Kurzeinführung in die Dokumenterstellung mit LaTeX [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung "Einführung in das Soziologische Arbeiten", Studiengang Soziologie (Bachelor), Bamberg, Germany.
    Bela, D. (1. Dezember 2018). Validating earnings in the German National Educational Panel Study: Determinants of measurement accuracy of survey questions on earnings [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 5th User Conference of the Research Data Centre of the Federal Employment Agency, Nuremberg, Germany.
    Bela, D. (1. Juli 2018). The German National Education Panel Study: Introducing the NEPS data infrastructure and its research potential [Vortrag]. Paper presented at NEPS User Training, Milan, Italy.
    Bela, D. (1. März 2018). Introduction into the survey design and the data structure of Starting Cohort 3 [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 58th NEPS User Training, Bamberg, Germany.
    Bela, D. (19. - 20. April 2018). Einführung in das Daten- und Informationsangebot des NEPS [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen einer NEPS-Nutzerschulung an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Deutschland.
    Kleine, L., & Bela, D. (1. September 2018). Introduction into working with NEPS data using the example of the Starting Cohort 4 [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 63rd NEPS User Training, Bamberg, Germany.

    2017

    Bela, D. (1. Juli 2017). Metadata-driven scientific use file data management [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Bela, D. (1. Juli 2017). Structured derivation of variables from occupational classifications with stata [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Bela, D. (1. März 2017). Datenschutz, Datensicherheit und technische Zugangsmöglichkeiten [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der 50. NEPS-Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, Deutschland.
    Bela, D. (1. September 2017). Introduction to the data portfolio of the German National Educational Panel Study [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 4th ECADOC Summer School of the University of Applied Labour Studies of the Federal Employment Agency, Mannheim, Germany.
    Fuß, D., & Bela, D. (1. März 2017). RemoteNEPS: An innovative infrastructure for the provision of sensitive data [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 3rd workshop on "spatial dimensions" of the Labour Market of the Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany.
    Kleine, L., & Bela, D. (1. September 2017). Einführung in die Datenarbeit am Beispiel der Startkohorte 4 (Klasse 9) [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der 54. NEPS-Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, Deutschland.

    2016

    Bela, D. (1. April 2016). Einführung in die Datenstruktur der Startkohorte 6 (Erwachsene) und Beispielanalysen [Vortrag]. 43. NEPS-Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, Deutschland.

    2015

    Bela, D. (1. April 2015). Einführung in die Datenbankstruktur der SC6 und Beispielanalysen [Vortrag]. 35. NEPS-Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, de.
    Bela, D. (12. März 2015). Beispielanalysen und freie Arbeit mit den NEPS-Daten [Vortrag]. 34. NEPS-Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, de.
    Bela, D. (13. März 2015). Freie Arbeit mit den NEPS-Daten [Vortrag]. 34. NEPS-Nutzerschulung, Bamberg, de.
    Bela, D. (2015, February 10). Free hands-on work with the NEPS data [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the 33rd NEPS User Training, Bamberg, Germany.
    Bela, D. (2015, February 10). Introduction into the data structure of Starting Cohorts 2, 3 and 4 and data examples [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the 33rd NEPS User Training, Bamberg, Germany.
    Bela, D. (2015, July 13 - 17). Interviewers´ influence on bias in reported income [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Reykjavik, Iceland.
    Bela, D. (2015, November 1). Introduction to NEPS data [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the NEPS data workshop for the Berlin Interdisciplinary Education Research Network, the Leibniz Education Research Network and the German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany.
    Bela, D. (2015, September 18). Introduction into the data structure of Starting Cohorts 2, 3 and 4 and data examples [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the 38th NEPS User Training, Bamberg, Germany.
    Bela, D. (2015, September 18). Introduction into the NEPS data portfolio [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the 38th NEPS User Training, Bamberg, Germany.
    Bela, D., & Angerer, D. (2015, October 2). Overview and assistance with NEPS data [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the NEPS data workshop within the Opening Meeting of the 2nd Funding Phase of the DFG Priority Program 1646, Bamberg, Germany.
    Tudose, M., Bela, D., & Fuß, D. (1. September 2015). Metadatenerfassung - Vom Feldinstrument bis zum SUF [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der Teamsitzung des Leibniz-Instituts für Bildungsverläufe e.V., Bamberg, de.

    2014

    Antoni, M., Vicari, B., & Bela, D. (2014, February 20 - 21). Interviewer´s influence on bias in reported income [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the 6th "Konferenz für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten".
    Bela, D. (13. Januar 2014). Anreicherung von NEPS SUFs auf Basis strukturierter Metadaten [Vortrag]. 8. Workshop der Panelsurveys in Deutschland, Bielefeld, de.
    Bela, D. (2014, October 12 - 17). Metadata (not DDI) use case: LIfBi. Production use of metadata in NEPS Scientific Use File data processing and dissemination, facilitating process and metadata-driven automation in the social, economic and behavioral sciences with the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the seminar "Optimal Algorithms and Proofs" of the Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, de.
    Bethmann, A., Antoni, M., Bela, D., Schierholz, M., Wenzig, K., & Zielonka, M. (2014, July 23 - 25). The role of technology in advancing the practice of survey research - Automatic coding of occupations [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the VI European Congress of Methodology, Utrecht, nld.

    2011

    Bela, D. (2011, September 26 - 28). Introducing NEPS data - Starting Cohort 6 "Adult Education and Lifelong Learning" [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, Bielefeld, de.