Report of December 13, 2012
The SOEP team would like to draw your attention once more to the possibilities of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) (see also SOEPnewsletter 95 / January 2012 (PDF, 2.49 MB)) and encourage you to also consider using this instrument when developing new empirical research questions.
The SOEP-IS is suitable for short-term experiments, but primarily also for long-term surveys which are not possible in the core SOEP-for instance, because they require instruments that are not yet established or deal with very specific research interests. The SOEP-IS allows researchers at universities and research institutions worldwide to use this sample for particularly innovative research projects, to help design the list of questions, and to analyze the data shortly afterwards. Submissions from doctoral students are particularly welcome.
In Spring 2012, a new independent supplementary sample of the SOEP Innovation Sample of 1,000 households was surveyed and replaced the SOEP pretest 2012. Consequently, in 2013 the SOEP-IS will consist of roughly 2,300 households with about 4,000 individuals. As of the survey year 2013, the contents of the SOEP-IS will be entered in a peer-reviewed competition to identify the "best" research questions, which will then be implemented, and the dissemination of data from the SOEP Innovation Sample will be integrated into the data provided by the SOEP Research Data Center and made available to external users as an autonomous dataset. Researchers interested in this should contact the SOEP Survey Management (by email directly to David Richter (drichter@diw.de) or to soep-surveymanagement@diw.de) with a project outline.
We will be pleased to advise you prior to submission of official application (please note the deadline of December 31 each year).