Report of June 29, 2011
The revision (v25) of variables with the annual household income (particularly the variable I11102$$ in the $PEQUIV file) provided to users as of October 2009 resulted in a substantial reduction in the poverty rate for households with children. An OECD publication that did not refer to the revision attracted attention in the media.
More detailed information on the data revision, our future information policy, and recent media reports can be found in the letter to the users (PDF, 207.11 KB) by Jürgen Schupp and in the SOEPnewsletter 93 (July 2011).