Forschung SOEP: Survey-Methodologie und Data Science

Using Analysis of Gini (ANOGI) for Detecting whether Two Subsamples Represent the Same Universe: The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Experience

A wildly discussed shortcoming of panel surveys is a potential bias arising from selective attrition. Based on data of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the authors analyze potential artifacts (level, structure, income inequality) by comparing results for two independently drawn panel subsamples started in 1984 and 2000. They apply ANOGI (analysis of Gini) techniques, the equivalent of ...

Taking "Don't Knows" as Valid Responses: A Multiple Complete Random Imputation of Missing Data

Incomplete data is a common problem of survey research. Recent work on multiple imputation techniques has increased analysts' awareness of the biasing effects of missing data and has also provided a convenient solution. Imputation methods replace non-response with estimates of the unobserved scores. In many instances, however, non-response to a stimulus does not result from measurement problems that ...

On the Returns to Occupational Qualification in Terms of Subjective and Objective Variables: A GEE-type Approach to the Estimation of Two-Equation Panel Models

This article proposes an estimation approach for panel models with mixed continuous and ordered categorical outcomes based on generalized estimating equations for the mean and pseudo-score equations for the covariance parameters. A numerical study suggests that efficiency can be gained as concerns the mean parameter estimators by using individual covariance matrices in the estimating equations for ...

An Experimental Evaluation of Popular Well-Being Measures

Drawing on data from two multitrait multimethod experiments carried out in the context of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper identifies questionnaire designs that minimize measurement error in reports of subjective well-being. Among the survey instruments most often used to measure well-being, the analysis focuses on three response formats (11-point, 7-point and magnitude satisfaction ...

Eine panelökonometrische Überprüfung der ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität mit deutschen Bundesländerdaten

According to the economic theory of crime, a rise in expected punishment (the product of probability and severity of punishment) results in a reduction of crime due to deterrence. What appears to be a simple and straightforward hypotheses turns out to be a demanding task for empirical examination because "crime" is composed of many different offence categories and expected punishment is influenced ...

Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany: Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

Erfassung des kognitiven Leistungspotenzials und der "Big Five" mit Computer-Assisted-Personal-Interviewing (CAPI): zur Reliabilität und Validität zweier ultrakurzer Tests und des BFI-S

Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and withingroup components as well as an "overlapping" index for the different sup-populations. We apply this method together with a jackknife ...

Der Einfluss unbeobachteter Heterogenität auf kompensatorische Lohndifferentiale und den Wert eines statistischen Lebens: eine mikroökonometrische Parallelanalyse mit IABS und SOEP

Die Arbeit untersucht mittels IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe, Sozioökonomischem Panel und Informationen über tödliche Arbeitsunfälle die Existenz kompensatorischer Lohndifferentiale zur Bestimmung desWertes eines statistischen Lebens (WSL) in Deutschland. Querschnittsregressionen auf Basis aller Erwerbstätigen ergeben mit 7,4 (IABS) bzw.3,5 (SOEP) Mio. € WSL-Schätzungen in der Größenordnung von querschnittsbasierten ...

Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) als Datenquelle zur Messung intergenerationaler Transfers

Cox-McFadden Partial and Marginal Likelihoods for the Proportional Hazard Model with Random Effects

In survival analysis, Cox's name is associated with the partial likelihood technique that allows consistent estimation of proportional hazard scale parameters without specifying a duration dependence baseline. In discrete choice analysis, McFadden's name is associated with the generalized extreme-value (GEV) class of logistic choice models that relax the independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption. ...

Intervieweffekte bei der Erhebung des Körpergewichts in Bevölkerungsumfragen

Daten zum Körpergewicht der Bevölkerung werden aus Kostengründen oftmals nicht objektiv gemessen, sondern durch subjektive Angaben erhoben. Frühere Untersuchungen zur Erhebung des Körpergewichts zeigen, dass sich subjektive Gewichtsangaben von objektiv gemessenen Daten unterscheiden, was auf den fehlenden Bekennermut der Befragten zurückgeführt wird. Verschiedene Methodenstudien deuten darauf hin, ...

Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) und die Möglichkeiten regionalbezogener Analysen

Derivation of Design Weights: The Case of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Design-based estimators of totals, means or proportions in finite populations generally are functions of weighted sums. If each element selected into the sample is also observed, then for the calculation of the pi-estimator these weights are just the inverse inclusion probabilities of the elements. However, if e.g. nonresponse or attrition over time occurs, calculation of these weights also includes ...

Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) als Grundlage für Analysen zur Bildungslage von Personen mit Migrationshintergrund

Zur Erhebung der Big-Five-basierten Persönlichkeitsmerkmale im SOEP

In den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften ist in den letzten Jahren der Trend zu beobachten, bei der mikroanalytischen Fundierung der menschlichen Handlungstheorie individuellen Präferenzen und Werten eine stärkere Beachtung zu schenken. Nachdem in den vergangenen Jahren bereits diverse sozialpsychologisch motivierte Erweiterungen im Fragenprogramm des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) erfolgten, ...

Codebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2004: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP

Documentation of Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 - 2004

BIOCHILD: Generated Variables from the "Mother and Child Questionnaire"

The Youth Questionnaire and the Corresponding Data Set BIOYOUTH