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The Research Data Center of the SOEP (SOEP RDC) has signed a "service level agreement" with the GESIS registration agency for social science data (see the Gesis Report [in German]). This agreement defines the requirements and procedures for future registration of data from the SOEP RDC. The data covered by the agreement include those regularly provided on the DVD, but also data ...
18.07.2011
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The new SOEPnewsletter 93/July 2011, is publishedWe provide information about: *** SOEP Data- The new SOEP 1984-2010 data release (v 27) - CNEF: revised variables on household income- More comprehensive information on revisions of the SOEP data - The new 2011 SOEP User Survey- How to protect the SOEP data on your computer when using services like DropBox, MegaUpload, and RapidShare*** News from ...
30.06.2011
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Prior to every SOEP data release, extensive work is done to process and prepare the data for publication. SOEP Beta Users receive a beta version of the new SOEP data in advance of the normal data release. Beta Users check the data and provide important feedback that we use in the final update of the dataset. By becoming a Beta User, you can help us to improve the SOEP data. The precondition is ...
29.06.2011
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Synchronization services like “DropBox,” “MegaUpload,” and “RapidShare” are frequently used for exchanging data. But by using these services, you give up control over your data and also over the data that you exchange through them, since you don’t know who last saved the data, or where they were saved, or what right the data provider has to these data.SOEP ...
29.06.2011
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The revision (v25) of variables with the annual household income (particularly the variable I11102$$ in the $PEQUIV file) provided to users as of October 2009 resulted in a substantial reduction in the poverty rate for households with children. An OECD publication that did not refer to the revision attracted attention in the media.More detailed information on the data revision, our future information ...
29.06.2011
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Marco Gießelmann joined the SOEP team end of May. He is involved in managing biography and life history data. Moreover, he is our new contact person for the user-training program SOEP@campus. Marco has a degree in Sociology (University of Bielefeld) and worked at the University of Cologne as research assistant at the Chair for Empirical Social and Economic Research. His recent work focuses ...
31.05.2011
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The SOEPnewsletter no. 92 / April 2011 is published.You will find information aboutnew developments in the SOEP studysome changes in the SOEP teamand many new presentations and publications
01.04.2011
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On February 11, the DIW Board of Trustees appointed Gert G. Wagner to serve as Chairman of the Executive Board for the next almost two years. Prof. Dr. Wagner's previous Deputy Heads, PD Dr. Joachim Frick and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp, will take over as Interim Heads of the SOEP during this period. Since Joachim Frick is currently ill, Jürgen Schupp will initially carry this responsibility ...
11.02.2011
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There was a problem in the assignment of the correct current household number in 3% of the children in the generated longitudinal dataset KIDLONG. The variable HHNRAKT has been corrected accordingly. In addition, the data in the variable K_NRKID for survey year 1987 have changed for child 397403.Here, the "number of children in the HH below the age of 16" went from 1 to 2.Please contact ...
07.01.2011
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The new SOEPnewsletter No. 91/2011 is available now! We have good news: The main SOEP sample will be increased to about 3,000 households in 2011. Our fieldwork organization TNS Infratest Sozialforschung of the last 26 years will continue to work with us, they won the Europe-wide tender for a ten-year contract. The SOEP has been given greater autonomy: it is no longer a regular department but a “research ...
22.12.2010
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The SOEPnewsletter No. 90 / October 2010 is available.Please see: The Comment: Jacqui Smith underlines the importance of subjective indicators in longitudinal studies and argues for more harmonization efforts for international comparisons SOEP Data Release 1984-2009 – now available in the EEA countries What’s new in the 1984-2009 data distribution (SOEP v26)? What’s ‘v26’, ...
30.09.2010
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On Sunday afternoon (September 12, 2010) our former colleague Johannes Schwarze tragically lost his life at the age of 51 in a road accident near Bamberg where he lives. The accident was caused by a motorist.Johannes Schwarze worked for the SOEP from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. From 2000 onward, he was a Research Professor at DIW Berlin. After holding positions as Deputy Chair in Bochum and Professor ...
30.09.2010
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The shipping of the DVD containing the SOEP data 1984-2009 (wave Z, v26) just started. 26 waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data are available for Euro 30,- (plus shipping costs) within EEA.If you want to get the data, you have to have a data distribution contract and have to order the data.More information about our conditionsOrder form onlineOrder form
22.09.2010
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The recently opened SOEP Archive for Re-Analysis of Published Findings now contains the first datasets.On our website you will find not only links to completely anonymized datasets used in some publications and available for free in the internet. We also provide information to publications using a working dataset deposited at our archive, available for licenced SOEP users, as well as references to ...
22.09.2010
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Photo: Stephan Röhl The 9th International Conference of SOEP Users has been a great success. More than 70 presentations (incl. poster session) were given and more than ...
22.07.2010
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The SOEPnewsletter 89 (July 2010) is online now. SOEPnewsletter 89
30.06.2010
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The SOEP is not only active at scientific conferences; we also work hard to bring our work to the broader public. We had the chance to do so the evening of June 5, 2010, at the tenth annual “Long Night of the Sciences” in Berlin. At this event, the capital city’s scientific institutions open their doors to the public for workshops, lectures, and activities. SOEP participated this ...
08.06.2010
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Mathis Schröder took over coordination of the project “Familien in Deutschland” (FID, families in Germany) in May 2010 as senior project manager. He studied economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and during this time also worked for SOEP as a student research assistant. In 2006 he attained his Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY/USA. After working for six ...
06.05.2010
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SOEP user Richard A. Easterlin of the University of Southern California/USA was awarded the 2009 IZA Prize in Labor Economics in October of last year. He was recognized, according to the prize committee, for his “outstanding research on the analysis of subjective well-being and on the relationship between demographic developments and economic outcomes.” He has expanded traditional economic ...
15.04.2010
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Publication
The SOEPnewsletter 88 (April 2010) is online now. SOEPnewsletter 88
31.03.2010