The SOEP group at DIW Berlin introduced the SOEP-IS panel for short-term experiments but also for long-term surveys that are not possible in the SOEP-Core—for instance, because they require instruments that are not yet well established or that deal with very specific research topics. In addition to Samples E and I from SOEP-Core, which were started in 1998 and 2009, respectively, new samples were drawn in 2012, 2013, and 2014 to achieve the final number of 5,000 respondents. The annual interviews since 2012 have contained not only questions from the SOEP-Core but also innovative modules, which are selected in a peer-reviewed competition as of the 2013 survey year to identify the "best" research questions. The survey is conducted by specially trained interviewers from the fieldwork organization TNS Infratest Sozialforschung using computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and is representative for Germany as a whole. Some of the many topics include earnings, employment, education, and health. The international version contains 95% of all cases surveyed.
Title: SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS), data from 1998-2014
DOI Find an explanation on the usage of DOI here.: 10.5684/soep.is.2014
Collection period: 1998-2014
Publication date: 01.04.2016
Principal investigators: Jürgen Schupp, David Richter, Jan Goebel, Martin Kroh, Carsten Schröder, Elisabeth Liebau, Maria Metzing, Kurt Wenzig
Data collector: TNS Infratest Sozialforschung GmbH.
Population: Persons living in private households in Germany.
Selection method: All samples of SOEP are multi-stage random samples which are regionally clustered. The respondents (households) are selected by random-walk.
Collection mode: The SOEP-IS is conducted using CAPI (Computer-assisted personal interviewing) exclusively. In principle, an interviewer tries to obtain face-to-face interviews with all members of a given survey household aged 16 and over. Additionally, one person (head of household) is asked to complete a household questionnaire covering information on housing, housing costs, and different sources of income. This also includes some questions about children up to 16 years of age in the household (e.g., kindergarten attendance, elementary school attendance, etc.)
Data set information:
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SPSS German |
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SPSS English |
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Stata German |
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Stata English |
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Publications using this file should refer to the above DOI and cite following reference
David Richter, Jürgen Schupp. 2015. The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP IS). Schmollers Jahrbuch 135 (3), 389-399 (doi: 10.3790/schm.135.3.389)
(prepublished 2012: SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) - Description, Structure and Documentation.SOEPpaper 463 | PDF, 162.91 KB : Berlin. DIW Berlin)
1) SOEP-IS 2014—PPFAD: Person-related Meta-dataset
2) SOEP-IS 2014—PBRUTTO: Person-related Gross File
3) SOEP-IS 2014—HBRUTTO: Household-related Gross File
4) SOEP-IS 2014—PGEN: Person-related Status and Generated Variables
5) SOEP-IS 2014—HGEN: Household-related Status and Generated Variables
6) SOEP-IS 2014—P: Variables from the Individual Question Module
7) SOEP-IS 2014—H: Variables from the Household Question Module
8) SOEP-IS 2014—BIO: Variables from the Life Course Question Module
9) SOEP-IS 2014—BIOPAREN: Biography Information on the Parents
10) SOEP-IS 2014.1—BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children
11) SOEP-IS 2014—BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female and Male Respondents
12) SOEP-IS 2014—KID: Pooled Dataset on Children
13) SOEP-IS 2014—INNO: Variables from the Innovation Modules
14) SOEP-IS 2014—IDRM: Person-related Data from Innovative DRM Module
1) Categorizing Open Answers in the DRM Module of SOEP-IS
2) SOEP-IS modules 2011-2018 – Descriptions
All documentation for filtering can be found on this page