Forschung SOEP: Survey-Methodologie und Data Science

Econometric Analysis of Ratings: With an Application to Health and Wellbeing

We propose a new non-linear regression model for rating dependent variables. The rating scale model accounts for the upper and lower bounds of ratings. Parametric and semi-parametric estimation is discussed. An application investigates the relationship between stated health satisfaction and physical and mental health scores derived from self-reports of various health impairments, using data from the ...

Automatic Coding of Occupations

Data Dissemination, Documentation, and User Support

A major goal of the NEPS is to provide scientific use data to the international research community. For this purpose, the NEPS has set up a Research Data Center (RDC) that offers a comprehensive portfolio of services, allowing researchers to gain access to and work with NEPS data effectively. The RDC’s support concept combines well-known approaches with innovative means of data documentation, data ...

Management of Metadata: An Integrated Approach to Structured Documentation

This chapter discusses the core elements of the metadata strategy striving for a structured approach to documentation, which is necessary to efficiently link, deduplicate, re-use, and present all information in two languages for the six panels and two school-reform studies of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). For this purpose, the NEPS Data Center has implemented a relational database that ...

String Coding in a Generic Framework

For many questions in the social sciences that are supposed be answered with survey data, reliable and detailed information about occupations is crucial. As classifications for occupations are very extensive and complex, it is not feasible to simply present a full scheme to the respondent. To overcome this issue, an open string is queried from the respondent and later converted to an appropriate entry ...

Genetic Variants Associated with Subjective Well-Being, Depressive Symptoms, and Neuroticism Identified through Genome-Wide Analyses

Very few genetic variants have been associated with depression and neuroticism, likely because of limitations on sample size in previous studies. Subjective well-being, a phenotype that is genetically correlated with both of these traits, has not yet been studied with genome-wide data. We conducted genome-wide association studies of three phenotypes: subjective well-being (n = 298,420), depressive ...

Nutzung von Bevölkerungsdaten für ein erweitertes Monitoring der Städtebauförderung

Die Zielkomplexität des Städtebauförderprogramms "Soziale Stadt" ist sehr hoch. Bei der Bewertung der Zielerreichung kamen bisher insbesondere qualitative Methoden der Wirkungsanalyse zur Anwendung. Um auch einer quantitativ evidenzbasierten Analyse gerecht zu werden, ist eine angemessene Datenbasis grundlegend. Ausschlaggebend ist, dass die vorliegenden Daten räumlich zugeordnet werden können. Dieser ...

The Linked Employer-Employee Study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE): Project Report

In 2012/13, a survey of German employers was conducted using face-to-face and paper-and-pencil interviews (N = 1,708; response rate = 30.1%). Establishments were sampled based on address information provided by employed participants in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. The information obtained from both surveys can be linked in order to create a linked employer–employee data set concerning organizational ...

The New SOEP Metadata Documentation System: Paneldata.org

Using Person-Fit Measures to Assess the Impact of Panel Conditioning on Reliability

Panel conditioning has posed one of the main challenges to panel studies since their inception in the social sciences. Aside from the risk of reactivity to previous interviews, there is reason to expect that cumulative survey experience increases the reliability of data emanating from panel studies relative to cross-sectional surveys. This positive aspect of recurrent interviewing for data quality ...