Releases previous years
Data access
To ensure the confidentiality of respondents’ information, the SOEP adheres to strict security standards in the provision of SOEP-IS data. The data are reserved exclusively for research use, that is, they are provided only to the scientific community. For individuals and institutions that already have a valid SOEP data distribution contract, an informal application can be submitted to the SOEP in the form of a letter or e-mail requesting a supplemental contract allowing expanded use of the SOEP data.
After users have signed or updated their data distribution contract with DIW Berlin, they will receive the SOEP-IS dataset by personalized encrypted download. At the SOEP Data Research Center, users can also access small-scale regional data that can be linked to the SOEP-IS data.
Additional information and all the required forms can be found on the SOEP webpage.
Release 2017
Innovative modules
Surveyed in 2011
- Internalized Gender Stereotypes Vary Across Socioeconomic Indicators (more)
- Justice Sensitivity (more)
- Pension Claims (more)
Surveyed in 2012
- Adaptive General Ecological Behaviour Scale (more)
- Control Strivings (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) (more)
- Expected Financial Market Earnings (more)
- The Big Two Psychological Content Dimensions: Agency and Communion (more)
- Dementia worry (more)
- Just Sustainable Development Based on the Capability Approach (GeNECA) (more)
- Anxiety and Depression (more)
Surveyed in 2013
- Conspiracy mentality (CMQ) (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) (more)
- Job Preferences and Willingness to Accept Job Offer (more)
- Job task survey (more)
- Regional Identification (more)
- Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ-S) (more)
- Sleep characteristics (more)
- Socio-economic effects of physical activity (more)
Surveyed in 2014
- Comparing Measures of Experimential and Evaluative Well-Being (more)
- Computer-Assisted Measurement and Coding of Educational Qualifications in Surveys (CAMCES) (more)
- Confusion, Hubbub, and Order Scale (CHAOS) (more)
- Cross-Cultural Study of Happiness (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (more)
- Determinants of Attitudes to Income Redistribution (more)
- Decisions from Description and Experience (more)
- Determinants of Not Wanting to Know (more)
- Expected Financial Market Earnings (more)
- Flourishing Scale (more)
- Future Life Events (more)
- Inattentional Blindness (more)
- Justice Sensitivity (more)
- Lottery Play: Expenditure, Frequency, and Explanatory Variables (more)
- Self-Evaluation and Overconfidence in Different Life Domains (more)
- Separating Systematic Measurement Error Components Using MTMM in Longitudinal Studies (more)
Surveyed in 2015
- Attitude Inferences and Interviewer Effects (more)
- Comparing Measures of Experimential and Evaluative Well-Being (more)
- Couples’ Prediction Accuracy for Food Preferences (more)
- Diversity of Living-Apart-Together-Couples (more)
- Emotion Regulation (more)
- Epigenetic Markers of Stress (more)
- Fiscal Crisis in the EU and European Solidarity (more)
- Future Life Events (more)
- Grit and Entrepreneurship (more)
- Happiness Analyzer Smartphone Application (more)
- Impostor Phenomenon and Career Development (more)
- Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ-S) (more)
- Ostracism Short Scale (more)
- Preference for Leisure (more)
- Private or Public Health Care: Evaluation, Attitudes, and Social Solidarity (more)
- Self-Regulated Personality Development (more)
- Separating Systematic Measurement Error Components Using MTMM (more)
- Sickness Presenteeism (more)
- Smartphone Usage (more)
- Socio-Economic Effects of Physical Activity (more)
Survey 2016
- Adaptation in Very Old Age (more)
- Adaptation to Major Life Events (more)
- Ageing in a Changing Society (more)
- Collective vs. Individual Risk Attitudes (more)
- Fiscal Crisis in the EU and European Solidarity (more)
- Happiness Analyzer Smartphone Application (more)
- Informal Care Outside the Household (more)
- Internet Based Psychotherapy (more)
- Language Skills, Income and Employment (more)
- Perceived Discrimination (more)
- Personal and Economic Relations (more)
- Physical Attractiveness (more)
- Representations of Scientific Information (more)
- Resilient Behavior in the Workplace (more)
- Separating Systematic Measurement Error Components Using MTMM (more)
- Status Confidence & Anxiety (more)
- Subjective Social Status (more)
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Short descriptions of the innovative modules up to date you will find here.
Data collection
2011
- Survey instrument referring to variables in datasets in Deutsch | PDF, 400.77 KB /in English | PDF, 389.76 KB
- Fieldwork report (German language only)
2012
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 422.23 KB / in English | PDF, 411.33 KB
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Boost Sample, Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 0.53 MB / in English | PDF, 0.51 MB
- Fieldwork report (German language only)
2013
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 490.12 KB / in English | PDF, 467.52 KB
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Boost Sample, Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 326.86 KB / in English | PDF, 317.56 KB
- Fieldwork report | PDF, 0.62 MB (German language only)
2014
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 0.53 MB / in English | PDF, 0.51 MB
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Boost Sample, Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 377.99 KB / in English | PDF, 356.58 KB
- Fieldwork report | PDF, 2.72 MB (German language only)
- Fieldwork report Experience Sampling Methode (ESM) | PDF, 2.04 MB (German language only)
2015
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 0.57 MB / in English | PDF, 0.57 MB
- Fieldwork report | PDF, 2.07 MB (German language only)
2016
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 505.42 KB / in English | PDF, 482.78 KB
- Fieldwork report | PDF, 5.17 MB (German language only)
2017
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample in Deutsch | PDF, 0.68 MB / in English | PDF, 0.66 MB
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample(Update soep.is.2017) in Deutsch | PDF, 0.63 MB / in English | PDF, 0.6 MB
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Boost Sample) in Deutsch | PDF, 407.32 KB / in English | PDF, 392.29 KB
Fieldwork Report | PDF, 8.83 MB
Data sets and documentation
- H: Variables from the Household Question Module
(Documentation | PDF, 459.4 KB ) - P: Variables from the Individual Question Module
(Documentation | PDF, 1.09 MB ) - INNO: Variablen aus den Innovationsmodulen
(Documentation | PDF, 2.79 MB ) - INNO_H: Household-Variables from the Innovation Modules
(Documentation | PDF, 149.25 KB ) - IBIP_Parent: Variables from the Bonn Intervention Panel (Parents)
- (Documentation | PDF, 158.87 KB )
- IBIP_Pupil: Variables from the Bonn Intervention Panel (Children)
- (Documentation | PDF, 0.61 MB )
- ILANGUAGE: Variables from Innovative Language Modules
- (Documentation | PDF, 450.44 KB )
- ILOTTERY: Variables from an Innovative Lottery Experiment in 2016
- (Documentation | PDF, 126.39 KB )
- IDRM: Person-related Data from Innovative DRM Module
(Documentation | PDF, 137.56 KB ) - IDRM_ESM: Person-related DRM Data from Innovative ESM Module
(Documentation | PDF, 138.36 KB ) - IESM: Person-related ESM Data from Innovative ESM Module
(Documentation | PDF, 155.84 KB ) - IRISK: Decision from Description vs. Decision from Experience
(Documentation | PDF, 121.97 KB ) - BIO: Variables from the Life Course Question Module
(Documentation | PDF, 465.52 KB ) - BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children
(Documentation | PDF, 295.74 KB ) - BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female and Male Respondents
(Documentation | PDF, 154.44 KB ) - BIOPAREN: Biography Information on the Parents
(Documentation | PDF, 235.69 KB ) - COGNIT: Cognitive Achievement Potentials
(Documentation | PDF, 234.99 KB ) - KID: Pooled Dataset on Children
(Documentation | PDF, 149.89 KB ) - HGEN: Household-related Status and Generated Variables
(Documentation | PDF, 175.36 KB ) - PGEN: Person-related Status and Generated Variables
(Documentation | PDF, 307.69 KB ) - PPFAD: Person-related Meta-dataset
(Documentation | PDF, 141.68 KB ) - HBRUTTO: Household-related Gross File
(Documentation | PDF, 139.33 KB ) - PBRUTTO: Person-related Gross File
(Documentation | PDF, 144.51 KB ) - PHRF: Weights for Persons
(Documentation | PDF, 105.62 KB ) - HHRF: Weights for Households
(Documentation | PDF, 104.89 KB ) - INTV: Variables about the interviewers
(Documentation | PDF, 126.09 KB )
The datasets are available for Stata and SPSS in versions with German and English labels.
Citation
Publications using these data should cite the DOI (doi: 10.5684/soep.is.2017) and include the 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)
Release 2016
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Amount of households (amount of persons) in SOEP-IS
Sample\Surveyyear | 1998-2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Sample E (started in 1998 with 373 households and 963 individuals) |
373 (963) in the SOEP |
447 (934) in the SOEP |
453 (936) in the SOEP |
464 (944) in the SOEP |
339 (649) in SOEP-IS |
310 (603) in SOEP-IS |
298 (570) in SOEP-IS |
282 (540) in SOEP-IS |
266 (506) in SOEP-IS |
Sample I (started in 2009 with 1,495 households and 3,052 individuals) |
1,495 (3,052) in the SOEP |
1,175 (2,450) in the SOEP |
1,040 (2,113) in the SOEP |
928 (1,845) in SOEP-IS |
864 (1,740) in SOEP-IS |
798 (1,562) in SOEP-IS |
741 (1,441) in SOEP-IS |
721 (1,380) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2012 (started in 2012 with 1,010 households and 2,005 individuals) |
1.010 (2,035) in SOEP-IS |
833 (1,698) in SOEP-IS |
772 (1,550) in SOEP-IS |
710 (1,399) in SOEP-IS |
669 (1,313) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2013 (started in 2013 with 1,166 households and 2,256 individuals) |
1,166 (2,256) in SOEP-IS |
929 (1,788) in SOEP-IS |
840 (1,617) in SOEP-IS |
770 (1,458) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2014 (started in 2014 with 924 households and 1,667 individuals) |
924 (1,667) in SOEP-IS |
672 (1,226) in SOEP-IS |
623 (1,123) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2016 (started in 2016 with 1,057 households and 1,935 individuals) |
1,057 (1,935) in SOEP-IS |
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Households total (individuals total) | 373 (963) | 1,942 (3,986) | 1,628 (3,386) | 1,504 (3,057) | 2,277 (4,529) | 3,173 (6,297) | 3,721 (7,137) | 3,245 (6,196) | 4,106 (7,715) |
The 2016 release contains the five samples (Samples E and I, Sup. Samples 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016) and the information from the years 1998 to 2016 as well as the variables on the innovation modules in the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 survey years.
Variables on the innovation modules in the 2015 survey year are included in the 2016 release. Variables on the innovation modules in the 2016 survey year will be included in the 2017 release.
Innovative Modules
Data on the following innovative modules are included in this release:
Surveyed in 2011
- Internalized Gender Stereotypes Vary Across Socioeconomic Indicators (more)
- Justice Sensitivity (more)
- Pension Claims (more)
Surveyed in 2012
- Adaptive General Ecological Behaviour Scale (more)
- Control Strivings (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) (more)
- Expected Financial Market Earnings (more)
- The Big Two Psychological Content Dimensions: Agency and Communion (more)
- Dementia worry (more)
- Just Sustainable Development Based on the Capability Approach (GeNECA) (more)
- Anxiety and Depression (more)
Surveyed in 2013
- Conspiracy mentality (CMQ) (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) (more)
- Job Preferences and Willingness to Accept Job Offer (more)
- Job task survey (more)
- Regional Identification (more)
- Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ-S) (more)
- Sleep characteristics (more)
- Socio-economic effects of physical activity (more)
Surveyed in 2014
- Comparing Measures of Experimential and Evaluative Well-Being (more)
- Computer-Assisted Measurement and Coding of Educational Qualifications in Surveys (CAMCES) (more)
- Confusion, Hubbub, and Order Scale (CHAOS) (more)
- Cross-Cultural Study of Happiness (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (more)
- Determinants of Attitudes to Income Redistribution (more)
- Decisions from Description and Experience (more)
- Determinants of Not Wanting to Know (more)
- Expected Financial Market Earnings (more)
- Flourishing Scale (more)
- Future Life Events (more)
- Inattentional Blindness (more)
- Justice Sensitivity (more)
- Lottery Play: Expenditure, Frequency, and Explanatory Variables (more)
- Self-Evaluation and Overconfidence in Different Life Domains (more)
- Separating Systematic Measurement Error Components Using MTMM in Longitudinal Studies (more)
Surveyed in 2015
- Attitude Inferences and Interviewer Effects (more)
- Comparing Measures of Experimential and Evaluative Well-Being (more)
- Couples’ Prediction Accuracy for Food Preferences (more)
- Diversity of Living-Apart-Together-Couples (more)
- Emotion Regulation (more)
- Epigenetic Markers of Stress (more)
- Fiscal Crisis in the EU and European Solidarity (more)
- Future Life Events (more)
- Grit and Entrepreneurship (more)
- Happiness Analyzer Smartphone Application (more)
- Impostor Phenomenon and Career Development (more)
- Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ-S) (more)
- Ostracism Short Scale (more)
- Preference for Leisure (more)
- Private or Public Health Care: Evaluation, Attitudes, and Social Solidarity (more)
- Self-Regulated Personality Development (more)
- Separating Systematic Measurement Error Components Using MTMM (more)
- Sickness Presenteeism (more)
- Smartphone Usage (more)
- Socio-Economic Effects of Physical Activity (more)
The data from the 2016 SOEP-IS modules will be provided exclusively to the researchers who proposed the respective ideas for an initial period of 12 months. They will be released to the rest of the SOEP user community in Spring 2018.
Short descriptions of the innovative modules up to date you will find here.
Data Collection
2011
- Survey instrument referring to variables in datasets in Deutsch | PDF, 400.77 KB /in English | PDF, 389.76 KB
- Fieldwork report (German language only)
2012
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 422.23 KB / in English | PDF, 411.33 KB
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Boost Sample, Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 0.53 MB / in English | PDF, 0.51 MB
- Fieldwork report (German language only)
2013
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 490.12 KB / in English | PDF, 467.52 KB
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Boost Sample, Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 326.86 KB / in English | PDF, 317.56 KB
- Fieldwork report | PDF, 0.62 MB (German language only)
2014
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 0.53 MB / in English | PDF, 0.51 MB
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Boost Sample, Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 377.99 KB / in English | PDF, 356.58 KB
- Fieldwork report | PDF, 2.72 MB (German language only)
- Fieldwork report Experience Sampling Methode (ESM) | PDF, 2.04 MB (German language only)
2015
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update soep.is.2016.1) in Deutsch | PDF, 0.57 MB / in English | PDF, 0.57 MB
- Fieldwork report | PDF, 2.07 MB (German language only)
2016
- Survey instrument for the SOEP Innovation Sample in Deutsch | PDF, 505.42 KB / in English | PDF, 482.78 KB
- Fieldwork report | PDF, 5.17 MB (German language only)
Data sets and documentation
- H: Variables from the Household Question Module
(Dokumentation | PDF, 0.52 MB ) - P: Variables from the Individual Question Module
(Dokumentation | PDF, 1.35 MB ) - INNO: Variables from the Innovation Modules
(Dokumentation | PDF, 2.52 MB ) - INNO_H:Household-Variables from the Innovation Modules
(Dokumentation | PDF, 144.23 KB ) - IDRM: Person-related Data from Innovative DRM Module
(Dokumentation | PDF, 159.93 KB ) - IDRM_ESM: Person-related DRM Data from Innovative ESM Module
(Dokumentation | PDF, 133.73 KB ) - IESM: Person-related ESM Data from Innovative ESM Module
(Dokumentation | PDF, 150.52 KB ) - IRISK: Decision from Description vs. Decision from Experience
(Dokumentation | PDF, 117.21 KB ) - BIO: Variables from the Life Course Question Module
(Dokumentation | PDF, 0.62 MB ) - BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children
(Dokumentation | PDF, 423.38 KB ) - BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female and Male Respondents
(Dokumentation | PDF, 149.49 KB ) - BIOPAREN: Biography Information on the Parents
(Dokumentation | PDF, 255.44 KB ) - COGNIT: Cognitive Achievement Potentials
(Dokumentation | PDF, 229.72 KB ) - KID: Pooled Dataset on Children
(Dokumentation | PDF, 144.82 KB ) - HGEN: Household-related Status and Generated Variables
(Dokumentation | PDF, 193 KB ) - PGEN: Person-related Status and Generated Variables
(Dokumentation | PDF, 344.63 KB ) - PPFAD: Person-related Meta-dataset
(Dokumentation | PDF, 149.91 KB ) - HBRUTTO: Household-related Gross File
(Dokumentation | PDF, 137.23 KB ) - PBRUTTO: Person-related Gross File
(Dokumentation | PDF, 138.56 KB ) - PHRF: Weights for Persons
(Dokumentation | PDF, 101.5 KB ) - HHRF: Weights for Households
(Dokumentation | PDF, 101.17 KB ) - INTV: Variables about the interviewers
(Dokumentation | PDF, 122.16 KB )
The datasets are available for Stata and SPSS in versions with German and English labels.
Versions
soep.is.2016.2
soep.is.2016.1
soep.is.2016
Citation
Publications using these data should cite the DOI (doi: 10.5684/soep.is.2016.2) and include the 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)
Release 2015
Samples and fieldwork
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Number of households (number of individuals)
Sample\in Year | 1998-2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
2015 |
Sample E (started in 1998 with 373 households and 963 individuals) |
373 (963) in the SOEP |
447 (934) in the SOEP |
453 (936) in the SOEP |
464 (944) in the SOEP |
339 (642) in the SOEP-IS |
310 (603) |
298 (570) in SOEP-IS |
282 (540) in SOEP-IS |
Sample I (started in 2009 with 1,495 households and 3,052 individuals) |
1,495 (3,052) im SOEP |
1,175 (2,450) im SOEP |
1,040 (2,113) in SOEP-IS |
928 (1,826) in SOEP-IS |
830 (1,728) in SOEP-IS |
798 (1,596) in SOEP-IS |
741 (1,441) |
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Supplementary Sample 2012 (started in 2012 with 1,010 households and 2,005 individuals) |
1.010 (2,005) in SOEP-IS |
833 (1,698) in SOEP-IS |
772 (1,611) in SOEP-IS |
710 (1,399) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2013 (started in 2013 with 1,166 households and 2,256 individuals) |
1,166 (2,256) in SOEP-IS |
928 (1,870) in SOEP-IS |
840 (1,617) |
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Supplementary Sample 2014 (started in 2014 with 924 households and 1,667 individuals) |
924 (1,665) in SOEP-IS |
672 (1,226) |
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Households total (individuals total) | 373 (963) | 1,942 (3,986) | 1,628 (3,386) | 1,504 (3,057) | 2,277 (4,529) | 3,173 (6,297) | 3,721 (7,137) |
3,245 (6,196) |
The 2015 release contains the five samples (Samples E and I, Sup. Samples 2012, 2013, and 2014) and the information from the years 1998 to 2015 as well as the variables on the innovation modules in the 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 survey years.
Variables on the innovation modules in the 2015 survey year are included in the 2016 release. Variables on the innovation modules in the 2016 survey year will be included in the 2017 release.
Innovative Modules
Data on the following innovative modules are included in this release:
Surveyed in 2011
- Internalized Gender Stereotypes Vary Across Socioeconomic Indicators (more)
- Justice Sensitivity (more)
- Pension Claims (more)
Surveyed in 2012
- Adaptive General Ecological Behaviour Scale (more)
- Control Strivings (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) (more)
- Expected Financial Market Earnings (more)
- The Big Two Psychological Content Dimensions: Agency and Communion (more)
- Dementia worry (more)
- Just Sustainable Development Based on the Capability Approach (GeNECA) (more)
- Anxiety and Depression (more)
Surveyed in 2013
- Conspiracy mentality (CMQ) (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) (more)
- Job Preferences and Willingness to Accept Job Offer (more)
- Job task survey (more)
- Regional Identification (more)
- Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ-S) (more)
- Sleep characteristics (more)
- Socio-economic effects of physical activity (more)
Surveyed in 2014
- Comparing Measures of Experimential and Evaluative Well-Being (more)
- Computer-Assisted Measurement and Coding of Educational Qualifications in Surveys (CAMCES) (more)
- Confusion, Hubbub, and Order Scale (CHAOS) (more)
- Cross-Cultural Study of Happiness (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (more)
- Determinants of Attitudes to Income Redistribution (more)
- Decisions from Description and Experience (more)
- Determinants of Not Wanting to Know (more)
- Expected Financial Market Earnings (more)
- Flourishing Scale (more)
- Future Life Events (more)
- Inattentional Blindness (more)
- Justice Sensitivity (more)
- Lottery Play: Expenditure, Frequency, and Explanatory Variables (more)
- Self-Evaluation and Overconfidence in Different Life Domains (more)
- Separating Systematic Measurement Error Components Using MTMM in Longitudinal Studies (more)
The data from the 2015 SOEP-IS modules will be provided exclusively to the researchers who proposed the respective ideas for an initial period of 12 months. They will be released to the rest of the SOEP user community in Spring 2018.
Short descriptions of the innovative modules up to date you will find here.
Data collection
2011
- Survey instrument referring to variables in datasets in English / in German
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (with survey instruments, German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2011 | PDF, 2.29 MB (Part III).
2012
- Survey instrument for Samples E and I referring to variables in datasets in English / in German
- Survey instrument for the Sup. Sample 2012 referring to variables in datasets in English / in German
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (with survey instruments, German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2012 | PDF, 2.29 MB (Part III, Section B).
2013
- Survey instrument 2013 referring to variables in datasets in English / in German
- Survey instrument for the Sup. Sample 2013 referring to variables in datasets in English / in German
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2013 (Part III, Section B).
2014
- Survey instrument 2014 referring to variables in datasets in English / in German
- Survey instrument for the Sup. Sample 2014 referring to variables in datasets in English / in German
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (German language only)
- ESM Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) for the Experience Sampling Method (German language only)
- Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2014 (Part 3, No. 4)
2015
- Survey instrument 2015 referring to variables in datasets in English / in German
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (German language only)
- Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2015 (Part II).
Data sets and documentation
- H: Variables from the Household Question Module (documentation)
- P: Variables from the Individual Question Module (documentation)
- INNO: Variables from the Innovation Modules (documentation)
- IDRM: Person-related Data from Innovative DRM Module (documentation)
- IDRM_ESM: Person-related DRM Data from Innovative ESM Module (documentation)
- IESM: Person-related ESM Data from Innovative ESM Module (documentation)
- IRISK: Decision from Description vs. Decision from Experience (documentation)
- BIO:Variables from the Life Course Question Module (documentation)
- BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children (documentation)
- BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female and Male Respondents (documentation)
- BIOPAREN: Biography Information on the Parents (documentation)
- COGNIT: Cognitive Achievement Potentials (documentation)
- KID: Pooled Dataset on Children (documentation)
- HGEN: Household-related Status and Generated Variables (documentation)
- PGEN: Person-related Status and Generated Variables (documentation)
- PPFAD: Person-related Meta-dataset (documentation)
- HBRUTTO: Household-related Gross File (documentation)
- PBRUTTO: Person-related Gross File (documentation)
The datasets are available for Stata and SPSS in versions with German and English labels.
Versions
Citation
Publications using these data should cite the DOI (doi: 10.5684/soep.is.2015 or 10.5684/soep.is.2015.1) and include the 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)
Release 2014
Samples and fieldwork
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Number of households (number of individuals)
Sample\Survey Year |
1998-2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
Sample E (started in 1998 with 373 households and 963 individuals) |
373 (963) in SOEP-IS |
447 (934) in SOEP-IS |
453 (936) in SOEP-IS |
464 (944) in SOEP-IS |
339 (642) in SOEP-IS |
310 (603) in SOEP-IS |
295 (580) in SOEP-IS |
Sample I (started in 2009 with 1,495 households and 3,052 individuals) |
1,495 (3,052) in the SOEP |
1,175 (2,450) in the SOEP |
1.040 (2.113) in SOEP-IS |
928 (1.826) in SOEP-IS |
830 (1.728) in SOEP-IS |
797 (1.596) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2012 (started in 2012 with 1,010 households and 2,005 individuals) |
1.010 (2.005) in SOEP-IS |
789 (1.691) in SOEP-IS |
772 (1.611) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2013 (started in 2013 with 1,166 households and 2,141 individuals) |
1.054 (2.141) in SOEP-IS |
928 (1.870) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2014 (started in 2014 with 924 households and 1,665 individuals) |
924 (1.665) in SOEP-IS |
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Households total (individuals total) | 373 (963) | 1.622 (3.986) | 1.628 (3.386) | 1.504 (3.057) | 2.277 (4.473) | 3.173 (6.163) | 3.716 (7.322) |
The 2014 release contains the five samples (Samples E and I, Sup. Samples 2012, 2013, and 2014) and the information from the years 1998 to 2014 as well as the variables on the innovation modules in the 2011, 2012, and 2013 survey years.
Variables on the innovation modules in the 2014 survey year are included in the 2015 release. Variables on the innovation modules in the 2015 survey year will be included in the 2016 release.
Innovative modules
Data on the following innovative modules are included in this release:
Surveyed in 2011
- Implicit Association Test (IAT) and corresponding explicit questions measuring gender stereotypes (more)
- The measurement of the four facets of sensitivity to injustice (victim sensitivity, observer sensitivity, beneficiary sensitivity, perpetrator sensitivity). (more)
- Questions about private, public, and company pensions.
Surveyed in 2012
- Adaptive Test of Environmental Behavior (more)
- Control Strivings (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (DRM)(more)
- Experiment on Expected Financial Market Earnings (more)
- Explicit Measurement of Self-Esteem
- Implicit Association Test (IAT) of Self-Esteem
- Fear of Dementia (more)
- Just Sustainable Development Based on the Capability Approach (GeNECA) (more)
- Short Scales on Loneliness & Depression (more)
Surveyed in 2013
- Conspiracy mentality (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) (more)
- Factorial survey on job preferences and job offer acceptance (more)
- Job task survey (more)
- Mobility & identity (more)
- Narcissism (more)
- Sleep characteristics (more)
- Socio-economic effects of physical activity (more)
The data from the 2014 SOEP-IS modules will be provided exclusively to the researchers who proposed the respective ideas for an initial period of 12 months. They will be released to the rest of the SOEP user community in Spring 2017.
Short descriptions of the innovative modules you will find here.
Data collection
2011
- Survey instrument referring to variables in datasets in English (preliminary) | PDF, 419.06 KB / in German
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (with survey instruments, German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2011 | PDF, 2.29 MB (Part III).
2012
- Survey instrument for Samples E and I referring to variables in datasets in English (preliminary) | PDF, 437.96 KB / in German
- Survey instrument for the Sup. Sample 2012 referring to variables in datasets in English(preliminary) | PDF, 0.55 MB / in German
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (with survey instruments, German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2012 | PDF, 2.29 MB (Part III, Section B).
2013
- Survey instrument 2013 referring to variables in datasets in German
- Survey instrument for the Sup. Sample 2013 referring to variables in datasets in English (preliminary) | PDF, 327.5 KB / in German
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2013 (Part III, Section B).
2014
- Survey instrument 2014 referring to variables in datasets in German
- Survey instrument for the Sup. Sample 2014 referring to variables in datasets in German
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (German language only)
- Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2014 (Part 3, No. 4)
Data sets
- H: Variables from the Household Question Module (documentation)
- P: Variables from the Individual Question Module (documentation)
- INNO: Variables from the Innovation Modules (documentation)
- IDRM: Person-related Data from Innovative DRM Module (documentation)
- BIO: Variables from the Life Course Question Module (documentation)
- BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children (documentation)
- BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female and Male Respondents (documentation)
- BIOPAREN: Biography Information on the Parents (documentation)
- COGNIT: Cognitive Achievement Potentials (documentation)
- KID: Pooled Dataset on Children (documentation)
- HGEN: Household-related Status and Generated Variables (documentation)
- PGEN: Person-related Status and Generated Variables (documentation)
- PPFAD: Person-related Meta-dataset (documentation)
- HBRUTTO: Household-related Gross File (documentation)
- PBRUTTO: Person-related Gross File (documentation)
The datasets are available for Stata and SPSS in versions with German and English labels.
Versions
Citation
Publications using these data should cite the DOI (doi: 10.5684/soep.is.2014) and include the following reference:
David Richter, Jürgen Schupp. 2012. SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) - Description, Structure and Documentation. SOEPpaper 463 | PDF, 162.91 KB : Berlin. DIW Berlin.
Release 2013
Samples and fieldwork
Number of households (number of individuals)
Sample\Survey Year | 1998-2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Memo: 2014 |
Sample E (started in 1998 with 373 households and 963 individuals) |
373 (963) in the SOEP |
447 (934) in the SOEP |
453 (936) in the SOEP |
464 (944) in the SOEP |
339 (642) in SOEP-IS |
310 (603) in SOEP-IS |
295 (580) in SOEP-IS |
Sample I (started in 2009 with 1,495 households and 3,052 individuals) |
1495 (3,052) in the SOEP |
1175 (2,450) in the SOEP |
1040 (2,113) in SOEP-IS |
928 (1,826) in SOEP-IS |
864 (1,728) in SOEP-IS |
797 (1,596) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2012 (started in 2012 with 1,010 households and 2,005 individuals) |
1,010 (2,005) in SOEP-IS |
833 (1,691) in SOEP-IS |
772 (1,611) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2013 (started in 2013 with 1,166 households and 2,141 individuals) |
1,166 (2,141) in SOEP-IS |
928 (1,870) in SOEP-IS |
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Memo: Supplementary Sample 2014 (started in 2014 with 924 households and 1,665 individuals) |
924 (1,665) in SOEP-IS | ||||||
Households total (individuals total) | 373 (963) | 1,622 (3,986) | 1,628 (3,386) | 1,504 (3,057) | 2,277 (4,473) | 3,173 (6,163) | 3,716 (7,322) |
The 2013 release contains the four samples (Samples E and I, Sup. Samples 2012 and 2013) and the information from the years 1998 to 2013 as well as the variables on the innovation modules in the 2011 and 2012 survey years.
Variables on the innovation modules in the 2013 survey year are included in the 2014 release. Variables on the innovation modules in the 2014 survey year will be included in the 2015 release.
Innovative modules
Data on the following innovative modules are included in this release:
Surveyed in 2011
- Implicit Association Test (IAT) and corresponding explicit questions measuring gender stereotypes (more)
- The measurement of the four facets of sensitivity to injustice (victim sensitivity, observer sensitivity, beneficiary sensitivity, perpetrator sensitivity). (more)
- Questions about private, public, and company pensions.
Surveyed in 2012
- Adaptive Test of Environmental Behavior (more)
- Control Strivings (more)
- Day Reconstruction Method (DRM)(more)
- Experiment on Expected Financial Market Earnings (more)
- Explicit Measurement of Self-Esteem
- Implicit Association Test (IAT) of Self-Esteem
- Fear of Dementia (more)
- Just Sustainable Development Based on the Capability Approach (GeNECA) (more)
- Short Scales on Loneliness & Depression (more)
Overview
An overview of the innovation modules and additional topics from SOEP-Core in the questionnaires is provided in this table | PDF, 140.79 KB .
Short descriptions of the innovative modules you will find here.
Data collection
2011
- Survey instrument referring to variables in datasets in English | PDF, 419.06 KB / in German | PDF, 426.14 KB
Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (with survey instruments, German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2011 | PDF, 2.29 MB (Part III).
2012
- Survey instrument for Samples E and I referring to variables in datasets in English | PDF, 437.96 KB / in German | PDF, 452.07 KB
- Survey instrument for the Sup. Sample 2012 referring to variables in datasets in English | PDF, 0.55 MB / in German | PDF, 0.56 MB
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (with survey instruments, German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2012 | PDF, 2.29 MB (Part III, Section B).
2013
- Survey instrument for the Sup. Sample 2013 | PDF, 327.5 KB referring to variables in datasets in English | PDF, 327.5 KB / in German | PDF, 329.08 KB
Data sets
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- H: Variables from the Household Question Module (documentation coming soon)
- P: Variables from the Individual Question Module (documentation coming soon)
- INNO: Variables from the Innovation Modules (documentation coming soon)
- BIO: Variables from the Life Course Question Module (documentation coming soon)
- BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female Respondents (documentation coming soon)
- BIOBRTHM: Birth Biography of Male Respondents (documentation coming soon)
- KID: Pooled Dataset on Children (documentation coming soon)
- BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children (documentation coming soon)
- HGEN: Household-related Status and Generated Variables (documentation coming soon)
- PGEN: Person-related Status and Generated Variables (documentation coming soon)
- PPFAD: Person-related Meta-dataset (documentation coming soon)
- HBRUTTO: Household-related Gross File
- PBRUTTO: Person-related Gross File
- HHRF: Household-related Weighting Factors
- PHRF: Person-related Weighting Factors
German documentation of the datasets is already available on the German site.
The datasets are available for Stata and SPSS in versions with German and English labels.
Versions
soep.is.2013.2
soep.is.2013.1
soep.is.2013
Citations
Publications using these data should cite the DOI (doi: 10.5684/soep.is.2013 resp.10.5684/soep.is.2013.2) and include the following reference:
David Richter, Jürgen Schupp. 2012. SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) - Description, Structure and Documentation. SOEPpaper 463 | PDF, 162.91 KB : Berlin. DIW Berlin.
Release 2012
Samples and fieldwork
Number of households (number of individuals)
Sample\Survey Year | 1998-2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
Sample E (started in 1998 with 373 households and 963 individuals) |
373 (963) in the SOEP |
447 (934) in the SOEP |
453 (936) in the SOEP |
464 (944) in the SOEP |
339 (642) in SOEP-IS |
310 (599) in SOEP-IS |
Sample I (started in 2009 with 1,495 households and 3,052 individuals) |
1495 (3,052) in the SOEP |
1175 (2,450) in the SOEP |
1040 (2,113) in SOEP-IS |
928 (1,826) in SOEP-IS |
864 (1,723) in SOEP-IS |
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Supplementary Sample 2012 (started in 2012 with 1,010 households and 2,005 individuals) |
1,010 (2,005) in SOEP-IS | 833 (1,688) in SOEP-IS | ||||
Supplementary Sample 2013 (started in 2013 with 1,166 households and approx. 2,700 individuals) |
1,166 (approx. 2,500) in SOEP-IS | |||||
Households total (individuals total) | 373 (963) | 1,622 (3,986) | 1,628 (3,386) | 1,504 (3,057) | 2,277 (4,473) | 3,173 (approx. 6,500) |
The 2012 release contains the three samples (Sample E, Sample I, Sup. Sample 2012) and the information from the years 1998 to 2012 as well as the variables on the innovation modules in the 2011 survey year.
Variables on the innovation modules in the 2012 survey year are included in the 2013 release. Variables on the innovation modules in the 2013 survey year will be included in the 2014 release.
Data collection
Overview
An overview of the innovation modules and additional topics from SOEP-Core in the questionnaires is provided in this table | PDF, 140.79 KB .
2011
- Survey instruments referring to variables in datasets (PDF, coming soon)
Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (with survey instruments, German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2011 | PDF, 2.29 MB (Part III).
2012
- Survey instrument for Samples E and I referring to variables in datasets (coming soon)
- Survey instrument for the Sup. Sample 2012 referring to variables in datasets (coming soon)
- Fieldwork report (Methodenbericht) (with survey instruments, German language only)
Shortend version of the fieldwork report in the Wave Report 2012 | PDF, 2.29 MB (Part III, Section B).
Data sets
- H: Variables from the Household Question Module (documentation coming soon)
- P: Variables from the Individual Question Module (documentation coming soon)
- INNO: Variables from the Innovation Modules (documentation coming soon)
- BIO: Variables from the Life Course Question Module (documentation coming soon)
- BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female Respondents (documentation coming soon)
- BIOBRTHM: Birth Biography of Male Respondents (documentation coming soon)
- KID: Pooled Dataset on Children (SOEP Survey Paper 203)
- BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children (documentation coming soon)
- HGEN: Household-related Status and Generated Variables (documentation coming soon)
- PGEN: Person-related Status and Generated Variables (documentation coming soon)
- HPFAD: Household-related Meta-dataset (documentation coming soon)
- PPFAD: Person-related Meta-dataset (documentation coming soon)
- HBRUTTO: Household-related Gross File
- PBRUTTO: Person-related Gross File
- HHRF: Household-related Weighting Factors
- PHRF: Person-related Weighting Factors
The datasets are available for Stata and SPSS in versions with German and English labels.
Version
Citation
Publications using these data should cite the DOI (doi:10.5684/soep.is.2012 or doi:10.5684/soep.is.2012i for the sample provided to the international research community) and include the following reference:
David Richter, Jürgen Schupp. 2012. SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS)—Description, Structure and Documentation. SOEPpaper 463 | PDF, 162.91 KB : Berlin. DIW Berlin.
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