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SOEP Annual Report 2024: people, projects, and publications

In 2024, SOEP celebrated its 40th birthday with numerous high-profile guests, colleagues, and supporters. But that's not all: with 49 ongoing third-party funded projects, SOEP received a total of 11 million euros in outside funding. The important research focus “Social inequalities and distribution” was further strengthened: the new research group “Life Course and Inequality”, headed by Philipp Lersch, ...

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Register now for the online workshop series SOEPcampus: Learn to use the SOEP over lunch

In June 2025 our online over lunch seminar series returns with new workshop management. The workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) on three Wednesdays during lunchtime. Participants will learn about the study's content, data structure, sample selection, and weighting strategy, along with an overview of the study documentation. To join, ...

The #ManyDaughters Study is Officially Kicking Off!

We are happy to announce the launch of the #ManyDaughters Study, an international research initiative exploring how having daughters influences behavior, preferences, and attitudes. Researchers from all fields of social sciences are invited to participate in this collaborative project, which will use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to test four key hypotheses on the impact of daughters ...

Ukrainian refugees in Germany: participation is growing, but many hurdles remain

How are the many Ukrainians who have come to Germany since the start of the Russian war of aggression on February 24, 2022, faring? An answer comes from the “Longitudinal Study on Refugees from Ukraine in Germany (SUARE),” which has published a research report on the topic on 3 March, 2025. The report, based on data collected between July 2023 and January 2024, is being published by the Institute for ...

The Wave 1 Scientific Use File of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is now available!

The SCP is a longitudinal study that captures multiple aspects of social cohesion in Germany. It is based on a representative population sample drawn from the German population registers and was carried out for the first time in 2021. The annual survey is directed not only at the selected individuals but also at all other adult household members. The SCP is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education ...

“Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany?

“Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany? Publications use Socio-Economic Panel data The “Sozialbericht 2024,” produced in collaboration with the Socio-Economic Panel, is being presented today. It is published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB). The ...

SOEP-Core Data 1984-2022 (v39) available now

All registered data users can order the latest data immediately via our online order form.In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder Important news for v39: New samples: With the refreshment sample R and the migration sample M8b, two new samples were added to the SOEP data. Currently, there is only a preliminary weighting, as the marginal distributions for ...

SOEP-IS: Call for Submissions

The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) is designed to enable innovative data collection for the research community. It is particularly well suited to establishing new and target-group-specific measurement instruments in long-term surveys, to conducting short- and long-term experiments, and to collecting non-survey data (such as biomarkers). Researchers who are interested in submitting a proposal for ...

SOEP at the DGPs Congress (Vienna, September 16-19, 2024)

The 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) and the 15th Conference of the Austrian Psychological Society (ÖGP) will be held jointly from September 16 to 19, 2024 at the University of Vienna, Austria, under the theme “Menschen, Mitwelt, Medien” - several SOEP employees will also be on site to present their research with SOEP data: Emilija Meier-Faust will give a presentation on ...

Register now for the online workshop series SOEPcampus: Learn to use the SOEP over lunch

In October 2024, the online workshop series "SOEPcampus: Learn to Use the SOEP Over Lunch" returns. This workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) study on three Wednesdays during lunchtime. Participants will learn about the study's content, data structure, sample selection, and weighting strategy, along with an overview of the study documentation. To ...

In memoriam Hans Jürgen-Krupp

*April 15, 1933 – †July 29, 2024 The founder of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) passed away on July 29, 2024, at the age of 91. Following his studies in industrial engineering, Hans-Jürgen Krupp was appointed Professor of Economic and Social Policy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 1969 and headed the university from 1975 to 1979. From 1972, he headed the ...

News from SOEP - Concise in the current SOEPnewsletter (July 2024)

The SOEPnewsletter July 2024 in it's html version is now availabe in English. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list. Enjoy reading.

SOEP publishes Annual Report 2023 - Scope and successes of the longest-running household survey - High-caliber research projects launched

What is the state of poverty and social cohesion in Germany? What about the integration of Ukrainian refugees? How has people's mental health developed over the last 20 years? In 2023, researchers from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) once again used its long-term panel data to conduct research on a wide range of topics relating to social change in Germany. In the 2023 annual report, SOEP looks back ...

100 participants at 15th SOEP User Conference

Immediately following its 40th anniversary ceremony at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, SOEP held a two-day user conference entitled “The individual and collective responses to a changing world.” With 15 sessions and 64 presentations, the conference impressively demonstrated the wide range of topics covered by research on SOEP data. One of the keynote speakers at the conference, ...

Data Release: The first Scientific Use File of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is now available

The IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey "Refugees from Ukraine in Germany" examines diverse aspects of Ukrainian refugees’ lives—the circumstances surrounding their departure from Ukraine, comprehensive socio-demographic characteristics, and information on housing, school, vocational and university degrees, employment, German language skills, life satisfaction and worries, family constellations before and ...

David Kasprowski has successfully defended his dissertation

On April 10, David Kasprowski successfully completed his dissertation entitled "'Queering' Social Class. On the connection between sexual orientation, gender identity and social class" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. David submitted and defended the dissertation as part of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS). The committee consisted of Ellen Heidinger (SOEP and BGSS), Prof. Dr. ...

SOEP alumn Jule Adriaans awarded Peter A. Berger Prize by the German Sociological Association

Dr. Jule Adriaans was awarded the Peter A. Berger Prize 2024 for her dissertation on “Distributive Justice: Definition, Determinants, and Consequences of the Justice of Earnings.” After Adriaans, a SOEP doctoral candidate (2018-2022), completed her PhD at the University of Bielefeld, she accepted a postdoc position at its Faculty of Sociology. Her work focuses mainly on income inequality and justice, ...

SOEP RegioHub successful in “Leibniz ScienceCampus” competition

The Leibniz Association has announced the funding of seven ScienceCampuses. The existing campus “SOEP RegioHub” (“Regional Development Dynamics and their Social, Economic and Political Consequences”) – a cooperation between SOEP and Bielefeld University in Bielefeld – will be funded for a further four years. Leibniz ScienceCampuses serve the strategic networking of Leibniz institutes with universities ...

Combatting pandemics together: funding for pioneering "Leibniz Lab" with SOEP participation

The new Leibniz Lab „Pandemic Preparedness: One Health, One Future” links excellent inter- and transdisciplinary research from 41 Leibniz institutes. For the first time in Germany, pathogen-oriented sciences (virology, bacteriology, mycology and immunology) are collaborating with other life sciences such as ecology, health technologies, health economics, and educational research. The Socio-Economic ...