SOEP Research Infrastructure News

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 ...

New Dataset: SOEP-CMI-ADIAB—Linking Administrative Data from the Institute for Employment Research with SOEP Survey Data

The SOEP-CMI-ADIAB dataset (version 7520 v1) is made available by the SOEP and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). It contains data on SOEP survey respondents linked with respondents’ personal administrative data from the IAB, provided that the SOEP respondents have given their consent and could be identified in the IAB data. The survey data in SOEP-CMI-ADIAB include data from SOEP-Core, the ...

Post-Doctoral Position in Wellbeing (f/m/nonbinary)

Research Associate (f/m/nonbinary)

Call for Papers: Employer, Employee, and Linked Datasets (LEE) ‒ Availability, Quality, Perspectives

Our project partner for the SOEP-LEE2 project, Wenzel Matiaske from HSU, is organizing a seminar at the Inter-University Centre (IUC) Dubrovnik from October 2-6, 2023. The aim of the seminar is to bring scientist together, who are working with LEE data (Linked Employer Employee data) and to prepare a Special Issue in the journal "management revue - Socio-Economic Studies". Interested scientists are ...

How to SOEP over Lunch

On January 18, January 25, and February 1, 2023 the online workshop "SOEPcampus: Learn to use SOEP over lunch" takes place again. This online workshop series offers a short online introduction to the data of the Socio-economic panel study. Participants will be introduced to the content of the study, its data-structure, sample selection and weighting strategy and they will be provided with an overview ...

Call for Proposals: KonsortSWD Network Development Grants

KonsortSWD Network Development Grants are aimed at researchers from the various communities that are part of KonsortSWD as well as infrastructure providers with relevant expertise. The grants further complement the portfolio of KonsortSWD services, and ideas from all KonsortSWD other NFDI communities are of interest. KonsortSWD Network Development Grants are designed to support projects that improve ...

Call for submissions to the 15th Workshop of Panel Surveys in German-Speaking Countries by Dec. 18, 2022

The 15th Workshop of Panel Surveys in German-Speaking Countries, which the SOEP is organizing in partnership with the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), will take place March 30-31, 2023, at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin (DIW Berlin).   The workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss current topics and findings from survey research as well as ...

Joint research project launched: IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP survey of 6,000 refugees from Ukraine

More than 950,000 refugees from Ukraine have sought protection in Germany since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. The project “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is the first comprehensive, representative social science survey of this group. It is being conducted by the SOEP in partnership with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), the ...

Register now for the two-day online workshop series "SOEPcampus@Home" - a practically oriented introduction to the data of the Socio-economic panel study (SOEP)

On August 25 and 26, 2022 the online workshop "SOEPcampus@Home" takes place again: This online two-day workshop offers a well-grounded and practically oriented introduction to the data of the Socio-economic panel study. Participants will be introduced to the content of the study, its data-structure, sample selection and weighting strategy and they will be provided with an overview over the study ...

Who are the winners of this year's prizes awarded at the SOEP Conference 2022?

The SOEP Conference 2022 took place from June 30 to July 1, 2022 and was a great success. We were very happy to finally hold our bi-annual conference at DIW Berlin again after being postponed due to the pandemic. Events like this conference are an important part of scientific life and we are pleased that all participants were there to help make it a success. Of the about 80 participants from 9 different ...

The new SOEP Annual Report is online!

Which SOEP projects were launched in 2021? What have researchers found out with our data? What additional data do we offer to our users? And what is new since we started working with the fieldwork institute infas? The report is available online free of charge. We would also be happy to send you a hard copy on request (soepmail@diw.de). Please download here

SOEP User Conference 2022 - Call for Papers (deadline extended)

The call for papers on our SOEP2022 - 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. Conference date: June 30-July 1, 2022, in Berlin! Please submit electronic versions of abstracts (up to 300 words) no later than FEB 9, 2022 to: soep2022@diw.de Researchers of all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract.The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "The ...

Five new members appointed to the SOEP Survey Committee

At its meeting in early November 2021, the DIW Board of Trustees appointed five new members to the SOEP Survey Committee. In the coming years, they and the rest of the Survey Committee will advise the SOEP team on the content and methodology of the surveys, as well as on SOEP’s research and services. Economist Conchita D’Ambrosio is a professor at the University of Luxembourg. She conducts ...

SOEPcampus@Home: Online workshop October 14 and 15, 2021

In order to facilitate novel user's access to the rich data-source of the SOEP, we will host another online-workshop in October. The aim of the workshop is to familiarize novel users with the content and structure of the dataset, its potentials for social-scientific research and accompanying documentation matieral. Practical examples of data management will be discussed. The workshop will last two ...

First results from the Nationwide Corona Monitoring study: a higher rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections among people with a lower level of schooling and vocational education

Initial results from the RKI-SOEP study show a higher rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections among people with a lower level of schooling and vocational education. The results also reveal that around 2 out of every 100 adults in Germany had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 as of November 2020—around twice as many as officially recorded for this time period. As part of this study, approximately 15,000 adults ...

German Datenreport 2021 published

The recently published 2021 Data Report answers questions such as: How great is the risk of poverty in Germany? How are people doing at building assets and wealth? How do people perceive income equality in Germany and Europe? One quarter of the 52 reports in the 2021 Data Report are based on SOEP data. The report combines data from official statistical sources with social research data and provides ...

SOEPcampus@Home: Online workshop March 25 and 26, 2021

In order to facilitate novel user's access to the rich data-source of the SOEP, we will host another online-workshop in March. The aim of the workshop is to familiarize novel users with the content and structure of the dataset, its potentials for social-scientific research and accompanying documentation matieral. Practical examples of data management will be discussed. The workshop will last two ...

Continuing restrictions on SOEP research visits due to corona

Up to the end of August 2021, we are unfortunately unable to offer any free slots for the analysis of small-scale regional data at the SOEP Research Data Center, other than guest visits that have already been arranged. Applications for self-financed short and longer-term research stays by researchers not using the small-scale regional data and/or applications for funding in the framework of the SOEP ...

SOEP Research Data Center website relaunched

As you may already have noticed: First the DIW and now the SOEP Research Data Center website has been relaunched with a crisp, user-friendly new design. Not only is it easy to use on devices other than a typical desktop computer, it also has a number of innovative features: The starting page now spotlights the research of the SOEP group at DIW Berlin, and the entire SOEP RDC website places ...