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Attention: The codebooks are very large. The download may last a long time. Preferably use the files on your SOEP DVD.

 Dataset
Description
link
$PVariables from personal questionnaires 
codebook_p.pdf (95 MB)
$H
Variables from household questionnairescodebook_h.pdf (31 MB)
$PGENGenerated Person-Level Variablescodebook_pgen.pdf (17 MB)
$HGENGenerated Household-Level Variablescodebook_hgen.pdf (11 MB)
$PKALGenerated calendar variables from $Pcodebook_pkal.pdf (51 MB)
$PEQUIVGenerated Person-Level variables for international comparisoncodebook_pequiv.pdf (48 MB)
$KINDGenerated Child Variables (Person-Level)codebook_kind.pdf (5.6 MB)