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Update :
The documentation documents for the generated variables of the updated data distribution SOEP-Core v31.1 (data for the years 1984-2014) are available online, including the documentation of the biographical data sets.
Please download the zip file with this link.
We have also published the documents as separated files on our website Generated Variables.
06.04.2016
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We are happy to presen our recent SOEPnewsletter 111, April2016.
The relevant topics:
An update of the current wave 31 of the SOEP data (SOEP v31.1, data of the years 1984-2014) has been released, we inform about the changes in the data set.
A new release of the SOEP Innovation Sample (soep.is.2014) is on its way. You will find an overview about the innovative modules that will be available.
The ...
06.04.2016
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Matthias Pollmann-Schult has been a grant holder in the DFG’s Heisenberg Programme at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, since 2012. He was a student research assistant with the SOEP from 1997 to 2000. He is one of the few male sociologists doing research on fathers using the SOEP data. We talked to him about his findings on the new generation of “involved fathers,” on whether ...
28.12.2015
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As reported in SOEPnewsletter 109, two international conferences organized by the SOEP team will be taking place in Berlin in Summer 2016.
Don’t miss the deadlines to submit your papers:
ESPE 30, June 15-18, 2015: deadline for submissions is February 1, 2016.More information at http://www.espe2016.de
SOEP 2016, June 22-23, 2016: deadline for submissions is February 29, 2016. More information ...
28.12.2015
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New faces at the CNEF projectWe are pleased to introduce two new members of the OSU team. Laura Fumagalli (PhD economics University of Essex) is on temporary “loan” from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. At ISER Laura helps to impute missing data in Understanding Society. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge. While at OSU, Laura ...
28.12.2015
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The following topical modules were part of the SOEP-Core survey last year:
Control beliefs and reciprocity
Friends networks
Joint income
At the household level: household energy use
Last year’s SOEP survey was also the first to include detailed questions about the minimum wage. To give you an idea what data to expect in fall 2016, we have published the questionnaires on our website together ...
28.12.2015
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An update of the recent SOEP-IS data distribution 2013 is available (DOI: 10.5684/soep.is.2013.2).
What’s new?
Household and person weights are now included for 2013 in data sets hhrf and phrf.
What’s changed?
Variables on unemployment, partnership status, and nationality (plb0021, pld0132, pld0133 plj0014, plj0025, plk0001) in dataset p now include information on new respondents ...
28.12.2015
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We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 110, January 2016.
We have some interesting news about
our plans regarding an IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Sample (see 'A note on ...' and a report about a workshop)
an update of the SOEP-IS Release 2013
an update of the Cross-national Equivalent File (CNEF) data and new faces at the CNEF project
the current composition of ...
23.12.2015
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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 to use the SOEP Innovation Sample for your innovative research projects.
Please contact SOEP Survey Management (soepsurveymanagement@diw.de) as soon as possible, to present your proposal. If the project is determined ...
09.12.2015
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The data for SOEP v31 have been finalized and sent out via encrypted download-link to the users who applied for them. Please order the current data set if you haven't done so.
Unfortunately we still need a little time to prepare the data files of the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) and of SOEPlong, and the PanelWhiz version of the SOEP for distribution. Thank you for your patience.
23.11.2015
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To improve our SOEP user services, we are again conducting a user survey up to December 18. We are very interested in both the fresh viewpoints of new SOEP users and the insights of our longtime users.
A focus of our work this year is on making it easier to understand how to use secondary data. Your feedback and suggestions are very important to us: Only you may see possibilities for improvement that ...
13.11.2015
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Uwe Sunde, longtime SOEP user and recently elected as deputy chairman of the SOEP Survey Committee, has been awarded the renowned Gossen Prize of the "Verein für Socialpolitik" at its annual conference. The Gossen Prize is awarded every year to honor a German-speaking economist working in central Europe, whose work has gained international renown. The aim of the award is to promote the internationalization ...
06.10.2015
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Big events are on the horizon in Berlin in 2016: The SOEP will be hosting or co-organizing three major international conferences — all in one week. First, from June 15‐18, there will be the 30th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), then on June 20 and 21 the more informal Panel Survey Methods Workshop, and finally on June 22 and 23 the 12th International ...
02.10.2015
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Thorsten Schneider is a professor of sociology at the University of Leipzig. He was a research associate in the SOEP from 2000 to 2005. During this time, he also wrote his dissertation on social origins and educational outcomes, and he received his doctor’s degree from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in 2005. To this day, his main research areas include educational sociology, comparative ...
02.10.2015
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We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 109, November 2015.
We have some interesting news about
upcoming conferences in Berlin in Summer 2016 including the Calls for Papers
a Call for Questions for the 2016 SOEP survey about refugees in Germany
a Call for Applications for scholarships at the SOEP (research regarding the minimum wage reform in Germany)
information ...
02.10.2015
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Uwe Sunde, longtime SOEP user and recently elected as deputy chairman of the SOEP Survey Committee, has been awarded the renowned Gossen Prize of the "Verein für Socialpolitik" at its annual conference. The Gossen Prize is awarded every year to honor a German-speaking economist working in central Europe, whose work has gained international renown. The aim of the award is to promote the internationalization ...
02.10.2015
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A short additional module will be included in the 32nd wave of the SOEP dealing with the unabated influx of refugees into Germany in recent months. In addition to the standard SOEP question asking respondents about their concerns regarding immigration to Germany, as well as the regular questions on racism and xenophobia in Germany, we plan to add new questions about civic engagement, donations, and ...
30.09.2015
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The 2013 IAB-SOEP Migration Sample (for an overview of M1, see SOEP Survey Paper 216) is our latest migration boost to the SOEP sample, carried out in collaboration with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg. The target population of the sample included immigrants to Germany since 1995 and also descendants of migrants who were born in Germany and have entered the labor market since ...
30.09.2015
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The SOEP Survey Committee held its annual meeting on July 3, 2015, in Berlin.
In addition to making recommendations for the further development of the diverse SOEP studies (SOEP-Core, SOEP-IS, and the SOEP Related Studies), the Survey Committee also adopted a revision of the SOEP mission statement (download as one document).
09.07.2015
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The SOEP will have an exhibition stand at the Sixth Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA 2015) in Reykjavik, Iceland, from July 13–17, 2015. Information will be provided about the wide range of analyses that can be carried out with the SOEP data with a focus on survey research. We will be presenting some experiments that are run in the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS), ...
06.07.2015