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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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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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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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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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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
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One new dataset from Germany, DE13, (Wave IX), has been added to the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS).
The dataset is from wave 31 of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, the 7 earlier German datasets based on the same survey (DE10/07/04/00/94/89/84) have been revised for consistency.
See Revision notes for details.
The LIS Database includes:
Household- ...
21.10.2016
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Researchers interested in submitting questions to the SOEP-IS 2017 survey should contact SOEP Survey Management by November 30, 2016, to present their proposal. If the project is determined to be viable from a survey methodology perspective, an official application procedure will follow. The official application must be received by December 31, 2016. Send us your proposal!
Applications should be submitted ...
21.10.2016
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Jennifer Hunt is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. Born in Australia and raised in Switzerland, she has held teaching and research posts in Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the USA. She served in the Obama Administration as Chief Economist in the US Department of Labor from 2013-14 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury from ...
21.10.2016
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We are currently fundamentally revising our documentation system paneldata.org. By the end of the year, we will have increased the user-friendliness of the system and made it possible to offer data from other studies. The software on which the system is based, DDI on Rails, is also being completely redeveloped (DDI on Rails 2). The first phase of our work focused on the technical implementation of ...
17.10.2016
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We are happy to presen our recent SOEPnewsletter 112, August 2016.
We like to inform about
the national dialogue on well-being and quality of life
the Call for Proposals for the next round of the SOEP Innovation Sample and top-up funding from the DFG,
an update of the 2014 release of the SOEP Innovation Sample (soep.is.2014.1),
the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey,
how it has been on the conferences ...
05.08.2016
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On June 23, 2016, at the 12th International SOEP User Conference at the WZB in Berlin, the sixth Felix Büchel Award was awarded to Rainer Winkelmann.
More on this prize and Felix Büchel
More on the 2016 award ceremony
01.07.2016
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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 ...
21.06.2016
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In the file with generated longitudinal data on children (KIDLONG) in SOEP-Core v31.1 another correction had to be implemented: Some few data that only had been asked in the FiD study were missing.This applies to the variables KA06$$ (Activities for children below the age of 6) and KA16$$ (Activities for children aged 6 to 16).If you want to analyze these variables there are three ways to use the corrected ...
06.06.2016
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We recently published the SOEP data (SOEP v31.1) in long format.
If you are registered as SOEP data user you may order the data online and receive a personalized link to download the data via completely encrypted transfers.
Other interested researchers please have a look at our websites or contact the SOEPhotline to get information on access to the data.
"SOEPlong" is a highly compressed, ...
06.06.2016
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Dear SOEP-users,
In order to respond to many requests from our community for SOEP-training options, we have co-organized several Workshops in the upcoming months.
Unfortunately, the international workshop on longitudinal data management and analysis, based on SOEP data, to be held on June 22-24 in Ann Arbour at the Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has been cancelled.
Furthermore, we ...
10.05.2016
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The data from the 2014 survey of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) have now been released and can be ordered by SOEP users. Up to now, they have been provided through a secure website. The current data distribution contains the data from the 2011, 2012, and 2013 innovative modules.
The SOEP-IS contained the following innovative modules in 2011:
Implicit Association Test (IAT) and corresponding ...
25.04.2016
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Katharina Mahne is a Sociologist and Director of the German Aging Survey (DEAS) at the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA) in Berlin. She began her research career as a student assistant in the SOEP 10 years ago. Since then, she has been doing research on social relationships within families. Her current focus is on the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. She is one of the few researchers ...
25.04.2016
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To begin the process of appointing the next generation of leadership for the SOEP, a job advertisement for the position of Director of the SOEP has been published. The new SOEP Director should, if possible, begin on October 1, 2017.
21.04.2016
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To describe the SOEP-LEE data, which are available in the DSZ-BO Bielefeld, we provide the following documents:
Erhebungsinstrumente und Datenkodierung der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, SOEP Survey Papers 304
Methodenbericht der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, SOEP Survey Papers 305
Datenhandbuch der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen ...
21.04.2016
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Data from the first wave of the study PIAAC-L have been released on March 31st 2016. PIAAC-L is a joint project of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin, and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).
In 2014, around 4,000 people in Germany between the ages of 18 and 67 who had previously taken part in PIAAC 2012 (Programme ...
21.04.2016