The SOEP group at DIW Berlin introduced the SOEP-IS panel for short-term experiments but also for long-term surveys that are not possible in the SOEP-Core—for instance, because they require instruments that are not yet well established or that deal with very specific research topics. In addition to Samples E and I from SOEP-Core, which were started in 1998 and 2009, respectively, new samples were drawn in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016 to achieve the final number of 5,000 respondents. The annual interviews since 2012 have contained not only questions from the SOEP-Core but also innovative modules, which are selected in a peer-reviewed competition as of the 2013 survey year to identify the "best" research questions. The survey is conducted by specially trained interviewers from the fieldwork organization Kantar Public Germany using computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and is representative for Germany as a whole. Some of the many topics include earnings, employment, education, and health.
Title: SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS), data from 1998-2018
DOI Find an explanation on the usage of DOI here . : 10.5684/soep.is.2018
Collection period: 1998-2018
Publication date: 2020-04-24
Principal investigators: Jan Goebel, Stefan Liebig, David Richter, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp, Knut Wenzig
Data collector: Kantar Public Deutschland GmbH
Population: Persons living in private households in Germany.
Selection method: All samples of SOEP are multi-stage random samples which are regionally clustered. The respondents (households) are selected by random-walk.
Collection mode: The SOEP-IS is conducted using CAPI (Computer-assisted personal interviewing) exclusively. In principle, an interviewer tries to obtain face-to-face interviews with all members of a given survey household aged 16 and over. Additionally, one person (head of household) is asked to complete a household questionnaire covering information on housing, housing costs, and different sources of income. This also includes some questions about children up to 16 years of age in the household (e.g., kindergarten attendance, elementary school attendance, etc.).
Publications using this file should refer to the above DOI and cite following reference
David Richter, Jürgen Schupp. 2015. The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP IS). Schmollers Jahrbuch 135 (3), 389-399 (doi: 10.3790/schm.135.3.389)
(prepublished 2012: SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) - Description, Structure and Documentation.SOEPpaper 463 | PDF, 162.91 KB : Berlin. DIW Berlin)
1) SOEP-IS 2018 – Methodenbericht zum Befragungsjahr 2018 des Bonn Intervention Panel
2) SOEP-IS modules 2011-2018 – Descriptions
3) SOEP-IS 2018 – Methodenbericht zum „ARB Survey 2018/2019“
4) SOEP-IS 2018 – PPFAD: Person-Related Meta-Dataset
5) SOEP-IS 2018 – PBRUTTO: Person-Related Gross File
6) SOEP-IS 2018 – HBRUTTO: Household-Related Gross File
7) SOEP-IS 2018 – PGEN: Person-Related Status and Generated Variables
8) SOEP-IS 2018 – HGEN: Household-Related Status and Generated Variables
9) SOEP-IS 2018 – PHRF: Weights for Persons
10) SOEP-IS 2018 – HHRF: Weights for Households
11) SOEP-IS 2018 – P: Variables from the Individual Question Module
12) SOEP-IS 2018 – H: Variables from the Household Question Module
13) SOEP-IS 2018 – BIO: Variables from the Life Course Question Module
14) SOEP-IS 2018 – BIOPAREN: Biography Information on the Parents
15) SOEP-IS 2018 – BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children
16) SOEP-IS 2018 – BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female and Male Respondents
17) SOEP-IS 2018 – KID: Pooled Dataset on Children
18) SOEP-IS 2018 – INNO: Variables from the Innovation Modules
19) SOEP-IS 2018 – Survey Report on the 2018 SOEP Innovation Sample
20) SOEP-IS 2018 – INNO_H: Household-Variables from the Innovation Modules
21) SOEP-IS 2018 – IBIP_PARENT: Variables from Bonn Intervention Panel (Parents)
22) SOEP-IS 2018 – IBIP_PUPIL: Variables from Bonn Intervention Panel (Children)
23) SOEP-IS 2018 – ILANGUAGE: Variables from Innovative Language Modules
24) SOEP-IS 2018 – ILOTTERY: Variables from an Innovative Lottery Experiment in 2016
25) SOEP-IS 2018 – IDRM: Person-Related Data from Innovative DRM Module
26) SOEP-IS 2018 - IDRM_ESM: Person-Related DRM Data from Innovative ESM Module
27) SOEP-IS 2018 – IESM: Person-Related ESM Data from Innovative ESM Module
28) SOEP-IS 2018 – IRISK: Decision from Description vs. Decision from Experience