Forschung SOEP: Survey-Methodologie und Data Science

BIOPAREN: Biography Information for the Parents of SOEP-Respondents

BIOIMMIG: Generated and Status Variables from SOEP for Foreigners and Migrants

BIOTWIN - Information on Twins in the SOEP

BIOBIRTM - The Birth Biography of Male Respondents in the SOEP

BIOBIRTH - A Data Set on the Birth Biography of Female Respondents

The Biography of Family Status and the Generated Current Family Status: (BIOMARSY, BIOMARSM and $FAMSTD)

BIOJOB: Detailed Information on First and Last Job (Version 2003)

Activity Biography in the File PBIOSPE

Biography and Life History Data in the German Socio Economic Panel: (Up to Wave U, 2004)

Documentation of Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 - 2003

Patterns of Consent: Evidence from a General Household Survey

We analyse consent patterns and consent bias in the context of a large general household survey, the 'Improving survey measurement of income and employment' (ISMIE) survey, also addressing issues that arise when there are multiple consent questions. Using a multivariate probit regression model for four binary outcomes with two incidental truncations, we show that there are biases in consent to data ...

Linking Household Survey and Administrative Record Data: What Should the Matching Variables Be?

Linkages of household survey responses with administrative data may be based on unique individual identifiers or on survey respondent characteristics. The benefits gained from using unique identifiers need to be assessed in the light of potential problems such as non-response and measurement error. We report on a study that linked survey responses to UK government agency records on benefits and tax ...

Validation of Survey Data on Income and Employment: The ISMIE Experience

This report derives from the project "Improving survey measurement of income and employment (ISMIE)" which investigates measurement error in survey data on income and employment, using a UK sub-sample of the European Household Community Panel (ECHP). In this paper we describe the process of collecting validation data and the outcomes of the process. Validation data were obtained from two sources: employers' ...

The Effects of Dependent Interviewing on Responses to Questions on Income Sources

Using an experimental design, we compare two alternative approaches to dependent interviewing (proactive and reactive) with traditional independent interviewing on a module of questions about sources of income. We believe this to be the first large-scale quantitative comparison of proactive and reactive dependent interviewing. The three approaches to questioning are compared in terms of their impact ...

Gesundheitswissenschaftliche Analysepotenziale des SOEP

The Contribution and Potential of Data Harmonization for Cross-National Comparative Research

The promise of empirical evidence to inform policy makers about their population's health, wealth, employment and economic well being has propelled governments to invest in the harmonization of country specific micro data over the last 25 years. We review the major data harmonization projects launched over this period. These projects include the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), the Cross-National Equivalent ...

Automatic Identification of Faked and Fraudulent Interviews in the German SOEP

Erste Erfahrungen mit den neuen SOEP-Gesundheitsindikatoren (2002-2004)

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Befragungsgestützte Messung von Gesundheit: Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick ; 14. März 2005, DIW Berlin