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Version SOEP v35 (data 1984-2018) is now available for analysis.
We have provided initial information on this version on our SOEP-Core website.And don't forget to order the current dataset if you have not already done so.
04.02.2020
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We regret to inform you that SOEP 2020 cannot take place this year.
The call for papers on our SOEP2020 - 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online.
Conference date: July 9-10, 2020, in Berlin!
Please submit electronic versions of abstracts (up to 300 words) no later than JAN 31, 2020 to: soep2020@diw.de
Researchers of all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract.The ...
12.12.2019
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Martin Gerike, who recently completed his training as a Specialist in Market and Social Research (FAMS) at the SOEP, was selected by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) as the best in his graduating class of a total of 67 FAMS across Germany. He was awarded this distinction at a national awards ceremony at the Maritim Hotel Berlin on December 9. Federal Education Minister Anja Karliczek ...
10.12.2019
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Michael Krämer has been working as a research assistant at the SOEP since November 1, 2019, on the DFG-funded project, “Personality and social relationship dynamics: Short- and medium-term processes in daily life (DIPS),” with David Richter. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science in Clinical and Health Psychology, both from Freie Universität Berlin. ...
10.12.2019
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The second local SOEPremote client has been opened as part of the “The Politics of Inequality” Cluster of Excellence at the University of Konstanz. This SOEPremote client can also be used under restricted conditions by users outside the Cluster of Excellence. The other SOEPremote client is at the University of Bielefeld. What is unique about these local, highly secure SOEPremote clients ...
10.12.2019| SOEPhotline
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We would like to ask you to complete a short questionnaire. By doing so, you will help us continue improving the SOEP data and our services to the international SOEP user community.If you did not receive a personal invitation, please register here(This link will be active only up to December 23, 2019).The entire survey will take only 10 minutes to complete. We hope to have achieved an appropriate balance ...
21.11.2019
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The SOEP Brown Bag is a lunch-time seminar at the SOEP in Berlin taking place every second week throughout the semesterin in which researches can present their work using SOEP data and other longitudinal household panels. Not only is it a good format to get into contact with SOEP staff but also to receive valuable feedback from those being involved in data generation and analysis with the same sources.
We ...
25.10.2019| Daniel Graeber, Lea-Maria Löbel
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SOEP users are invited to submit proposals for the next round of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). For those not yet familiar with SOEP-IS, this unique innovation sample offers great potential as a source of household micro-data, particularly for researchers seeking information that is not available in SOEP-Core—for example, specific information on households or on people’s opinions. ...
14.10.2019
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At the start of Summer Semester 2019, Marco Giesselmann took up his new position in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Zurich. At the SOEP, Marco was responsible for organizing SOEPcampus events. Sandra Bohmann has now taken on full responsibility for this task, which she has been carrying out as Marco’s replacement for some time. Marco is now also Senior Research Fellow at the SOEP.
Christian ...
15.08.2019
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The 2017 wave of the SOEP survey was the fourth to include a module on individual private wealth. The data from this module have been processed to deal with item non-response and to provide user-friendly harmonized variables in the widely used PWEALTH and HWEALTH files, which now include private wealth data from 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017.
The 2017 SOEP wealth module covered two new components of ...
14.08.2019
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The relaunch of our SOEP Research Data Center website will be delayed further.
The good news is: We have launched our new SOEP start page on the DIW Berlin website.It features a fresh design that’s easy to read design on all devices and new content, including Getting Started , a toolbox of services for new data users.
The new start page highlights the SOEP team’s research and policy advice ...
14.08.2019
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It is Professor Leonardo Becchetti from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
The anonymized SOEP data are only provided for scientific research after a contract has been signed between the data user and DIW Berlin. Becchetti's topic: Heterogeneity in Beliefs Comparing West and East Germany.
We wish him success in his research!
06.08.2019
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The eighth conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) was held in Zagreb, Croatia, from July 15 to 19, 2019. The conference was hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb.
As at previous ESRA conferences, a number of SOEP staff members presented their research findings and applications of new survey methods in different SOEP samples, and some chaired ...
30.07.2019| Christine Kurka
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The 2018 SOEP Wave Report with reports from Kantar and the SOEP unit at DIW Berlin on our fieldwork, publications, activities, and new developments including the SOEP-IS module "Foxes" and the research project SOEP-RV, linking the SOEP with administrative pension data.
02.07.2019
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Deadline for the 2020 Survey: September 30, 2019.
Use the Survey of Refugees, now in its fourth wave, for your own research questions.
The IAB, BAMF, and SOEP invite researchers to propose questions to be added to the Survey of Refugees questionnaire in 2020, its fourth wave. If you would like to suggest any additional questions or items on refugees that are relevant to your current ...
01.07.2019
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Just published online is the recent journal article to describe and refer to the SOEP data in the field of sociology:
Marco Giesselmann, Sandra Bohmann, Jan Goebel, Peter Krause, Elisabeth Liebau, David Richter, Diana Schacht, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp, Stefan Liebig. 2019. The Individual in Context(s): Research Potentials of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in Sociology. European ...
25.06.2019
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Our most recent data release (v34) mistakenly included the previous version of the migspell dataset rather than an updated version. Those interested can reorder this dataset by sending an e-mail to soepmail or calling the SOEPhotline.
27.05.2019| Philipp Kaminsky
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We are pleased to present our new SOEPtutorial series! SOEPtutorials are designed both for first-time users of the SOEP data and for users who would like a quick refresher to bring them back up to date. SOEPtutorials can be watched sequentially for a step-by-step introduction to working with the data, or individually for answers to specific questions.
SOEPtutorials at the DIW Mediathek or SOEP Yo ...
16.05.2019
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The SOEP-IS Release 2017 provides household data from 1998 to bis 2017 and the data from the innovative modules 2011 to 2016.
We will be happy to receive your order. Please use our online form.
More information on data access, sample development, innovative modules and the data files included you will find here.
16.05.2019
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We have integrated the SOEPlong metadata into the SOEP-Core metadata on paneldata.org in the process of updating the information on the current wave of SOEP-Core (v34). We have also made a few additional improvements:
Improved presentation of topics. This makes it even easier to search for variables that are relevant to a particular research topic.
All questionnaires from 2016 and 2017 are now ...
06.05.2019