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**Update**
Just published: a new journal article to describe and refer to the SOEP data.
Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Stefan Liebig, Martin Kroh, David Richter, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp. 2019. The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Journal of Economics and Statistics 239(2), 345-60. doi: 10.1515/jbnst-2018-0022 ...
16.04.2019
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Australian Political Scientist Bruce Headey was not only one of the first SOEP data users—he was one of the first researchers in the world to discover the value of the SOEP for research on happiness. Headey is a Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in the University of Melbourne. He is a specialist in welfare and distributional issues and at the ...
22.03.2019
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Based on extensive positive feedback from our users, we have decided to send the SOEPnewsletter in a simple and easily readable HTML format from now on. We would be glad about your feedback.
It will then mainly receive links to the news and content available on our website.
Please visit the current SOEPnewsletter
in our common web design
as a one page pdf document
20.03.2019
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The new wave of SOEP-Core data (v34, 1984-2017) has been released! With this wave, we have completely revised our data provision process. To read more about the improvements awaiting you, click here.
If you haven’t ordered the v34 data yet, the SOEP hotline staff will be happy to take your order online in English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder or German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellung
SOEPhelp: ...
09.03.2019
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Andrew Clark is a CNRS Research Professor at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). He previously held posts at Dartmouth, Essex, CEPREMAP, DELTA, the OECD and the University of Orléans. As a longtime SOEP data user, he was one of the first researchers worldwide to use SOEP data to study well-being in collaboration with psychologists.
Over the last three decades, Clark’s work has ...
07.03.2019
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Following the identification of interviews that were not conducted In line with the standards of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP group in the first wave of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in 2016 (news and documentation), the project partners and the fieldwork institute substantially enhanced and reinforced their quality control and quality assurance processes. In addition to improvements in fieldwork ...
05.03.2019
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Congratulations to Philipp Kaminsky for passing his FAMS final exam on January 24, 2019!
Philipp will be supporting the SOEP team in the SOEP Research Data Center (SOEP-RDC) by answering questions and requests on the SOEP-Hotline and taking care of contract management.
01.02.2019
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Our annual in-house introductory workshop to the SOEP will take place on March 5 and 6, 2019.
There will be lectures on the topics covered in the SOEP study, documentation, and sample structure, along with a variety of hands-on sessions allowing participants to go through the various steps in data preparation and analysis with assistance from SOEP team members. There is a small fee to cover food at ...
08.01.2019
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Wishing you the happiest of holidays and a healthy and successful 2019.
On behalf of the whole SOEP team at DIW Berlin.
Please note that the SOEP-FDZ is closed from December 21, 2018 until January 4, 2019!
21.12.2018
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Our annual SOEP User Survey has started again.
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 January 14, 2019.)The entire survey will take only 10 minutes to complete. ...
17.12.2018
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Based on extensive positive feedback from our users, we have decided to send the SOEPnewsletter in a simple and easily readable HTML format from now on. We would be glad about your feedback.
It will then mainly receive links to the news and content available on our website.
Please visit the current SOEPnewsletter
in our common web design
as a one page pdf document
30.11.2018
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The SOEPcompanion offers users a wealth of information on the data in the main SOEP survey (SOEP-Core).
This online handbook is designed to help new users getting started with the SOEP by introducing the survey, its structure, and research potential. The SOEPcompanion provides also important information on the topics in SOEP-Core, survey design, the various subsamples, a precise explanation of the ...
29.11.2018
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We are pleased to announce that the script generator and basket in Paneldata.org, which can be used by simply registering and logging in, have been thoroughly revised and now offer the following improved functions:
More intuitive design and navigation
Variables placed in the basket are now easier to supplement with connected variables over time.
A list of variables can be exported as a csv file
Several ...
29.11.2018| Uta Rahmann
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For a more detailled What's new version, please refer to the Changes in the Dataset'
1. New, user-friendly integrated data format
In the new wave of the SOEP-Core study, we are bringing together the wide and long data formats, which were previously provided to users separately. In so doing, we aim to eliminate any confusion about what is available in which format and to make data use easier overall. ...
29.11.2018
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What makes people happy? Australian Political Scientist Bruce Headey was not only one of the first SOEP data users—he was one of the first researchers in the world to discover the value of the SOEP for research on happiness. Headey is a Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in the University of Melbourne. He is a specialist in welfare and distributional ...
29.11.2018
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This year’s SOEP Conference from July 19 to 20 was a great success. It was held at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), where the first SOEP conference— launched by Gert G. Wagner—took place 25 years earlier, in 1993.
Of the almost 100 papers submitted by researchers from 14 different countries, the scientific committee for the SOEP conference (Charlotte ...
29.10.2018| Christine Kurka
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Michaela Engelmann's voice is very familiar to many data users and respondents. Since 2005, it has answered telephone inquiries from SOEP users and forwarded questions to experts in the SOEP team. Since 2008 she has also been the contact person for the SOEP interviewees at DIW Berlin. More than a dozen waves of SOEP data have been sent to researchers either as DVDs or digitally provided in encrypted ...
30.08.2018| Michaela Engelmann
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An additional call for an InGRID Summer school 25 - 26 October 2018at DIW Berlin is open.
Deadline for applications: 3 September 2018Information on applications: 11 September 2018
General information
The ‘EU-SILC trainings workshop: Comparative research on migration’ aims at training doctoral students or early-career researchers. It is also open to academics, policy practitioners ...
03.08.2018
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The current SOEP Wave Report 2017 has been published and is available for download.It contains a look at the important developments in the SOEP-Core samples, innovations at SOEP-IS, the current fieldwork reports of Kantar Public as well as projects and activities of the SOEP Research Data Center. A list of all SOEPpapers and SOEP Survey Papers as well as selected scientific publications of the last ...
02.07.2018
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We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 119, June 2018.
We
provide you with information about the release 2016 of the SOEP-IS data, which are out now,
give you the opportunity to submit applications to an InGRID summer school on migration research at DIW Berlin,
invite you to an international workshop on longitudinal data management and analysis (CNEF workshop) at DIW Berlin,
give ...
05.06.2018