Title: SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS), data from 1998-2019
DOI : 10.5684/soep.is.2019
Collection period: 1998-2019
Publication date: 2021-05-06
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.).
Citation of the Data Set: SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS), data from 1998-2019. 2020. DOI: 10.5684/soep.is.2019
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)
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An error occurred in the 2017 release, concerning several activity-related variables of the p-dataset (pli0090, pli0091, pli0092, pli0096, pli0097, pli0098). In the p-dataset, these variables have five possible positive responses,
"[1] Daily", "[2] At least once a week", "[3] At least once a month", "[4] Seldom" and "[5] Never".
This reflects how the questions were asked in several specific survey years – in other survey years, however, the "Daily"-option was not included in the questionnaire and only
"[1] At least once a week", "[2] At least once a month", "[3] Seldom" and "[4] Never" were possible responses.
To account for this difference in the final dataset, we have been recoding the latter version to fit to the first one (i.e., "[1] At least once a week" to "[2] At least once a week", etc.) in previous years. Unfortunately, this recoding was not performed for the 2017 data, resulting in original "[1] At least once a week"-responses being reported as "[1] Daily"-responses in the final dataset, "[2] At least once a month"-responses as "[2] At least once a week"-responses and so forth.
This error only concerned the 2017 responses for the variables mentioned above and has been fixed in the new 2019 release version. It should be noted that in the 2019 interviews, the full scale with 5 possible responses has been used again. To highlight that two different response scales have been used over the years (1-4 and 1-5), we have created additional copies of these variables with a suffix ("*_v1" and "*_v2"). These copies only include the respective original scales without any recoding.
Please find all sample specific questionnaires of this year and all questionnaires of previous years on this site
1) SOEP-IS 2019 – Methodenbericht zum Befragungsjahr 2019 des Bonn Intervention Panel
2) SOEP-IS 2019 – PPFAD: Person-related Meta-dataset
3) SOEP-IS 2019 – PBRUTTO: Person-related Gross File
4) SOEP-IS 2019 – HBRUTTO: Household-related Gross File
5) SOEP-IS 2019 – PGEN: Person-related Status and Generated Variables
6) SOEP-IS 2019 – HGEN: Household-related Status and Generated Variables
7) SOEP-IS 2019 – PHRF: Weights for Persons
8) SOEP-IS 2019 – HHRF: Weights for Households
9) SOEP-IS 2019 – P: Variables from the Individual Question Module
10) SOEP-IS 2019 – H: Variables from the Household Question Module
11) SOEP-IS 2019 – BIO: Variables from the Life Course Question Module
12) SOEP-IS 2019 – BIOPAREN: Biography Information on the Parents
13) SOEP-IS 2019 – BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children
14) SOEP-IS 2019 – BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female and Male Respondents
15) SOEP-IS 2019 – KID: Pooled Dataset on Children
16) SOEP-IS 2019 – Survey Report on the 2019 SOEP Innovation Sample
17) SOEP-IS 2019 – INNO: Variables from the Innovation Modules
18) SOEP-IS 2019 – INNO_H: Household-Variables from the Innovation Modules
19) SOEP-IS 2019 – IBIP_PARENT: Variables from Bonn Intervention Panel (parents)
20) SOEP-IS 2019 – IBIP_PUPIL: Variables from Bonn Intervention Panel (children)
21) SOEP-IS 2019 – ILANGUAGE: Variables from Innovative Language Modules
22) SOEP-IS 2019 – ILOTTERY: Variables from an Innovative Lottery Experiment in 2016
23) SOEP-IS 2019 – IDRM: Person-related Data from Innovative DRM Module
24) SOEP-IS 2019 – IDRM_ESM: Person-related DRM Data from Innovative ESM Module
25) SOEP-IS 2019 – IESM: Person-related ESM Data from Innovative ESM Module
26) SOEP-IS 2019—IRISK: Decision from Description vs. Decision from Experience