Data Documentation

Preparation of Data from the New SOEP Consumption Module: Editing, Imputation, and Smoothing

This documentation describes the data preparation of the new consumption module in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and introduces the content and structure of the generated dataset "hconsum." In 2010, the SOEP for the first time included a detailed consumption module in the household questionnaire. This documentation discusses several methodological challenges of the new module and suggests ...

Codebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2012: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP

Current and Prospective Costs of Electricity Generation until 2050

EUROMOD Country Report Germany: EUROMOD Version F7.0; Project on Behalf of the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the European Commission

Documentation of Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) (1984 until 2011)

Codebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2011: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP

EUROMOD Country Report Germany: EUROMOD Version F6.0; Project on Behalf of the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the European Commission

Documentation of the Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model STSM: Version 2012

The Kyrgyz Integrated Household Survey (KIHS): A Primer

Biography and Life History Data in the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP, v27, 1984-2010)

Multi-Itemskalen im SOEP Jugendfragebogen

Documentation of Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) (1984 until 2010)

BIOEDU (Beta Version): Biographical Data on Educational Participation and Transitions in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Codebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2010: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP

Die Messung individueller Vergebungstendenz im SOEP: Skaleneigenschaften der deutschen Version der Tendency-to-Forgive-Scale

This documentation presents the scale characteristics of a new scale measuring people's tendency to forgive. The tendency to forgive is understood here as an individual disposition to forgive other people when one has suffered injustice or harm from them. The scale is a German translation of a scale already validated in the USA. The scale was first tested in the 2009 SOEP Pretest (N=1,007) and showed ...

The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the IOWA-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons and Buunk (1999) created an instrument ...

Handgreifkraftmessung im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) 2006 und 2008

PanelWhiz - Efficient Data Extraction of Complex Panel Data Sets: An Example Using the German SOEP

This paper outlines a panel data retrieval program written for Stata/SE 10 or better, which allows easier accessing of complex panel data sets. Using a drop-down menu and mouse click system, the researcher selects variables from any and all available years of a panel study. The data is automatically retrieved and merged to form a "long file", which can be directly used by the Stata panel estimators. ...

Biography and Life History Data in the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP, v26, 1984-2009)

Editing und Multiple Imputation der Vermögensinformation 2002 und 2007 im SOEP