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Report
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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Report
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
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Report
The IAB, BAMF, and SOEP invite researchers to submit proposal for questions to be added to the questionnaire in 2018—the third wave of the survey. If you would like to suggest any additional questions or items on refugees that are relevant to your current or future research and that would benefit from the longitudinal character of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, we would be happy ...
24.05.2017
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Report
The data from the 2015 survey of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) have now been released and can be ordered by SOEP users. The current data distribution contains the data from the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 innovative modules.
More information
26.04.2017
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Report
We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 115, April 2017.
We like to inform about
the data release of the 2015 SOEP-IS data,
news on SOEPinfo 2.0,
results of the SOEP User Survey,
new SOEP-Core documentation documents,
and many more.
20.04.2017
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Report
Beside the normal documentation on generated variables, we now for the first time provide 2015 questionnaires (indiviuals and biographical) generated from metadata.
Beside the questions, the documents contain the variable names and labels used in SOEP-Core and SOEPlong as well as the names of the data set containing the data. We published these questionnaires in an English and a German version.
Please ...
06.03.2017
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Interview
Rainer Winkelmann’s research on unemployment and happiness using SOEP data led to his groundbreaking 1998 paper “Why are the unemployed so unhappy?” (written jointly by Liliana Winkelmann), which conclusively demonstrated—for the first time—that unemployment makes people unhappy. It is the most widely cited paper in the history of the SOEP.
Rainer Winkelmann studied economics ...
06.03.2017
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Report
Recently we published an update for the SOEP data 1984-2015 (v32.1).
This was because we found some mistakes in the data sets BIOCOUPLY, BIOMARSY, BFP, and BFPGEN.
At the same time, this version is also available in long-format to facilitate the longitudinal analysis of the data.
Please find more information on our landing page of https://doi.org/10.5684/soep.v32.1.
28.02.2017
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Report
We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 114, February 2017.
We like to inform about
the changes in the SOEP versions 32 and 32.1 (data 1984-2015),
the first data release of the SOEP Related Study TwinLife
first results of the SOEP User Survey
new SOEP team and SOEP Survey Committee members
and many more.
It may also be of interest to you to read a note on post-truth by Jürgen ...
27.02.2017
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Report
At its November 2016 meeting, the DIW Berlin Board of Trustees appointed two new members to an initial three-year term on the SOEP Survey Committee. As of 2017, Arthur van Soest, Professor at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Netherlands, and Urs Fischbacher, Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Konstanz, join the other seven members of the SOEP Survey Committee in advising ...
08.02.2017
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Report
Ralph Hertwig, cognitive psychologist at Berlin's Max Planck Institute for Human Development, has received the 2017 Funding Prize in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme from the DFG (German Research Foundation) for his work on the psychology of human judgment and decision-making. Ralph Hertwig is the fourth SOEP data user to be awarded this distinguished research prize: he was preceded by Ulman ...
08.02.2017
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Report
The paper “Berufsgruppe ‘Erzieherin’: Zufrieden mit der Arbeit, aber nicht mit der Entlohnung” by C. Katharina Spieß and Franz G. Westermaier published in the DIW-Wochenbericht Nr. 43 (in German) in 2016 has again shown that the SOEP sample size is now so large that it provides the basis for statistically valid findings on even relatively small population groups. We encourage ...
08.02.2017
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Report
The surveyed persons of the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample, integrated into SOEP-Core as Sample M, have been asked for their consent to link their data to administrative data.
The Research Data Center of the Insitute for Employment Research (FDZ IAB) now provides a data set with the linked administrative data (IAB-SOEP-MIG-ADIAB). Data access is possible via on-site use at the FDZ IAB and subsequently ...
23.12.2016
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Report
The data of our main study SOEP-Core covering the years 1984-2015 are ready to use.
Please place your order online if you haven't done so (only for registered data users).
All users are required to sign a data distribution contract or to register with an existing contract. Please find more information on this site or contact our SOEP-Hotline.
23.12.2016
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Report
Only if we have precise knowledge about the needs of the users of the SOEP data we are able to provide the best service. Therefore, in regular intervals we conduct user surveys.
Your experiences will help us to improve our infrastructure and services and facilitate use of the SOEP data.
This year we will be focusing on the diversity of studies provided in the Research Data Center of the SOEP to find ...
24.11.2016
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Report
Since end of September the fieldwork institute conducting the SOEP surveys since more than 30 years has changed its name to Kantar Public. As Kantar Public Germany it remains an independent institute focusing on social and political research.
Jürgen Schupp, Director of the SOEP, expects Kantar Public to produce data on a wide range of political and social research topics that meet highe scientific ...
23.11.2016
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Report
Our database SOEPlit had to be stored on different servers several times in the last months. This is why SOEPlit in the moment cannot be accessed by klicking the quicklink provided on most of our websites.
We apologize for the trouble caused. Until we can fix the problem, please use the short URL http://www.diw.de/soeplit.
This URL will forward to SOEPlit even if we have to change the web address ...
03.11.2016
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Report
We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 113, October 2016.
We like to inform about
the upcoming SOEP version 32 (data 1984-2015), to be released not later than December 15, 2016,
news on the SOEP information system paneldata.org (and the documentation of SOEP v31 at data.soep.de)
the changes at the LIS - Cross-national Data Center in Luxembourg
the change of name of our research institute ...
25.10.2016
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Report
New leadership structure at LIS
In a post on September 1, 2016, Janet Gornick, Director of the LIS since 2006, offers some key information about the new structure and recognizes several people who have made LIS what it is, over many years. Please read here the central paragraphs :
"Since its inception in 1983, LIS has had a single Director, responsible for the overall operation of LIS. Tim ...
21.10.2016