The Aussiedler reception centre of the Saarland could not provide a dataset with the standard information on the Aussiedler as in NRW. As an alternative, all local refugee offices of the Saarland were contacted to ask for access to their available data on the Aussiedler. In order to be eligible for the Saarland cohort, migrants must have arrived in Germany between 1990 and 2005 from countries of the FSU. All together information on 26,384 Aussiedler (more than 90% of all Aussiedler who settled in the Saarland during the respective period) was available
