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The SOEP-IS Release 2016 provides household data from 1998 to bis 2016 and the data from the innovative modules 2011 to 2015.
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.
01.06.2018
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In the data distribution soep.v33.1 (1984-2016) some issues occured, which are described here and can be fixed by the provided scripts.
01.06.2018
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Personnel news
Wolfgang Zapf, former SOEP Director and longtime supporter and advocate for the SOEP, passed away in late April at the age of 81.
Wolfgang Zapf was instrumental in the founding of the SOEP study in the early 1980s, together with colleagues in the fields of sociology and economics. He has had an enduring influence on the measurement concepts used in the SOEP, and his quality of life concept has become ...
08.05.2018
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The registration for the 13th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2018) is open now!
Please visit our conference homepage for more information (the detailled program will be published soon).
We are obliged to charge all conference participants a registration fee.Regular fee: 140 EUR / Reduced fee (Students & enrolled Phd Students): 80 EUR.The fee includes conference ...
08.05.2018
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Spell, duration or event history data are used frequently in the social sciences. Handling this kind of data can be cumbersome, especially when you want to supplement spell data with panel data or vice versa. Alternatively, you might want to combine two spell files or enrich spell data with information on events while keeping the spell structure of your data. To accomplish these tasks, we provide five ...
06.04.2018
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Gert G. Wagner, who served as a member of the German Institute for Economic Research's Executive Board from 2011 to 2017, will celebrate his 65th birthday on January 5. The economist and social scientist was the head of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) research infrastructure at DIW Berlin from 1989 to 2011 and developed it into the largest and longest-running long-term study on social and economic ...
04.01.2018
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Wishing you the happiest of holidays and a healthy and successful 2018
On behalf of the whole SOEP team at DIW Berlin
22.12.2017
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The call für papers and session contribution for our SOEP 2018 - 13th International German Socio-Economic Panel User ConferenceJuly 19–20, 2018, in Berlin
is open until February 15, 2018.
The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with SOEP data. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, ...
22.12.2017
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The Institute of Employment Research (IAB), the Information Centre for Asylum and Migration of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ), and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) are currently working together on a longitudinal survey of refugees. The survey research institute Kantar Public (formerly TNS Infratest) has been commissioned ...
20.12.2017
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Interview
“Income Inequality, Inequality of Opportunity, and Redistribution” was the subject of economist Judith Niehues’ doctoral dissertation and has been a central focus of her research since then. Niehues earned her doctorate at the University of Cologne after completing undergraduate studies there and at San Diego State University in the United States. She is a Senior Economist at the ...
08.12.2017
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This year we call on every user to take part in our SOEP User Survey, to participate in continuously developing the SOEP. The survey will be funtional until the end of december. We hope for a high willingness to participate and we would be happy for any feedback or ideas.
For more information on the survey and to participate please click here
08.12.2017
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The scientific study MORE is designed to deliver first results on how civic engagement can support the short- and long-term integration of refugees in Germany. The intervention study is a cooperation between the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). It is funded by the Leibniz Competition (Funding Line: Innovative ...
08.12.2017
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K2ID is short for „Kinder und Kitas in Deutschland“ and refers to the German name of the surveys carried out as part of a project entitled “Early childhood education and care quality in the Socio-Economic Panel” (K²ID-SOEP).
Since October 2017 the data are distributed via the RDC SOEP.
More information on the study and data collection on the K2ID Homepage.
For more information ...
08.12.2017
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SOEP-Core version v33 is now available and can be ordered.
We are looking foward to your order. To order the data please click here.
The new data distribution (1984–2016) “SOEP v33” provides, for the most recent survey year 2016, the usual wave-specific data files BGPBRUTTO, BGP, BGPKAL, BGPGEN, BGHBRUTTO, BGH, BGHGEN, BGKIND, and BFPLUECKE as well as the updated files with a longitudinal ...
08.12.2017
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The SOEP v33 data release (1984-2016) includes data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany. This is the first SOEP data release to include this new data set. More information on the survey can be found here.
The data are provided for downloading—either as 'stand alone' data set or integrated into the SOEP-Core data set—by the Research Data Center of the SOEP. To obtain the ...
07.12.2017
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We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 117, November 2017.
We
are quite sure to send out the new SOEP-Core wave (data 1984-2016, including data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees) by end of November and provide you with information what's new,
invite you to submit papers for our SOEP2018 Conference,
give information about changes in the SOEP's leadership team,
inform about ...
30.11.2017
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We would like to remind you of the possibilities of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) and encourage you to consider using this instrument in developing new empirical research questions. SOEP-IS is well suited to short-term experiments, but it is particularly useful for long-term surveys that are not possible in the framework of the core SOEP—whether because the instruments are not yet established ...
28.09.2017
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We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 116, July 2017.
We like to inform about
the possibility to add questions to the refugee samples (sorry, first deadline tomorrow!),
the possibility to add survey modules (questions and experiments) to the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS)
the fieldwork of the Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development (BRISE)
the participation of the ...
31.07.2017
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Publication
Our new brochure “Living in Germany” offers a compact source of information about the kinds of research currently being done with SOEP data and key findings from these studies. In it, we present a selection of research results with significant implications for society and policy making from the more than 7,000 papers published to date using SOEP data. And we introduce some of the researchers ...
25.07.2017
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Just out: the 2016 SOEP Wave Report, with a look at important developments in the SOEP studies over the last year, fieldwork reports from Kantar Public, projects and activities of the SOEP Research Data Center, and selected publications using SOEP data.
Download here.
27.06.2017