Forschung SOEP: Survey-Methodologie und Data Science

Neue Muster der Migration

Über die Migrationsbiografien, -wege und -erfahrungen der in Deutschland lebenden Zuwanderer gibt es bislang nur wenig gesicherte wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse. Eine im Jahr 2013 begonnene Längsschnittstudie soll diese Lücke schließen: Für die neue IAB-SOEP-Migrationsstichprobe werden künftig jedes Jahr 5 000 Personen mit Migrationshintergrund und ihre Familienangehörigen befragt. So lässt sich nachvollziehen, ...

SOEP Wave Report 2013

Examining the Structure of Spatial Health Effects in Germany Using Hierarchical Bayes Models

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich individual-level household panel data from the German SOEP with administrative county-level data to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find strong and highly significant spatial ...

Trajectories of Life Satisfaction: Positive Feedback Loops May Explain Why Life Satisfaction Changes in Multi-year Waves Rather than Oscillating around a Set-Point

Long term panel data enable researchers to construct Life Satisfaction (LS) trajectories for individuals over time. In this paper we analyse the trajectories of respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel who recorded their LS for 20 consecutive years in 1991-2010. Previous research has shown that at least a quarter of these respondents recorded substantial long term changes in LS (Headey, Muffels ...

Thirty Years of the Socio-Economic Panel

Thirty years ago, in February 1984, interviewers from TNS Infratest rang the doorbells of approximately 6,000 households across the Federal Republic of Germany and invited them to participate in the study “Living in Germany”, as the SOEP is known to its respondents. This year, we leafed through our files and thought back on what has happened over the last 30 years: What events have shaped the lives ...

Data Distribution SOEP.v29

The 2013 SOEP data release was version 29, which means that29 waves of SOEP data are now available. The range of data weprovide has also expanded to include FID Version 4.0 and the firstversion of SOEP-IS. And, to offer our users integrated documentation,we have developed a new documentation system.

Method Effects in Factorial Surveys: An Analysis of Respondents' Comments, Interviewers' Assessments, and Response Behavior

This paper describes the implementation of a factorial survey within the SOEP-Pretest of 2008 and investigates (1) respondents' comments about the vignettes, (2) interviewers' assessments of respondents comprehension and willingness to answer, and (3) response behavior regarding response time, use of the answering scale, and consistency of evaluations by different age groups and educational background. ...

Längsschnittuntersuchung

Indikatoren, soziale

Paneldaten in der Soziologie: Fixed Effects Paradigma und empirische Praxis in Panelregression und Ereignisanalyse

In der soziologischen Methodenforschung werden Paneldaten als Instrument diskutiert, welches eine fundiertere Überprüfung einer kausalen Hypothese als Querschnittsdaten ermöglicht. Zur Realisierung dieses Potenzials ist allerdings die Isolierung intraindividueller Zusammenhänge im Rahmen der Schätzprozedur notwendig. Bei multivariaten Regressionsanalysen leistet dies die Fixed Effects Regression, welche ...