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The call for papers for the 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. SOEP 2026 will take place from July 8-9, 2026, in Berlin, and researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. We particularly welcome contributions addressing meta-science, robustness, replicability, reproducibility, and open science. This includes, but is not limited to, studies ...
11.11.2025| Janina Britzke, Levent Neyse
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In Nov/Dec 2025 our online over lunch seminar series returns with one last workshop this year. 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.
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17.10.2025| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
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On November 17 and 18, 2025 we are organizing a two-day in-person workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the study itself, its data structure, sampling design, and weighting strategy, hands-on sessions will offer a practical approach to the data and its potential. The workshop is aimed at researchers of all qualification levels who want to work ...
14.10.2025| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
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SOEP/DIW Berlin (together with ZBW, WZB, and RWI) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the "2nd Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies", taking place on 27 October 2025 at the Leibniz-Association, Berlin. This year’s keynote will be delivered by Prof. Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University). The program is now available and highlights the growing role of ...
29.09.2025| Levent Neyse
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Personnel news
On September 9, Barbara Stacherl successfully completed her dissertation entitled “Spatial Healthcare Access: Measurement, Health-Related Outcomes, and Healthcare Utilization” with summa cum laude at Bielefeld University.
Barbara submitted and defended her dissertation as part of the Public Health doctoral program.
The committee consisted of Prof. Odile Sauzet (primary supervisor, Bielefeld University), ...
16.09.2025
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The SOEPnewsletter June 2025 is now availabe in English and German. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list.
Enjoy reading.
03.07.2025
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All registered data users can now order the latest data v40 (DOI: 10.5684/soep.core.v40eu) via our online order form.
In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder
Important news for v40:
New samples: With the migration sample M8c and the refugee sample M9, two new samples were added to the SOEP data in cooperation with IAB and BAMF.
Several data set errors ...
27.06.2025| SOEP Community Management
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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, ...
11.06.2025| Janina Britzke, Markus M. Grabka, Verena Neumann
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
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, ...
15.04.2025| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
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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 ...
11.04.2025| Levent Neyse
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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 ...
03.03.2025| Sabine Zinn
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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 ...
10.12.2024| Julian B. Axenfeld
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“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 ...
06.11.2024| Verena Neumann
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
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 ...
22.10.2024| SOEP Community Management
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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 ...
26.09.2024| Mariel McKone Leonard
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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 ...
05.09.2024
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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.
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09.08.2024| Sandra Bohmann, Janina Britzke
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*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 ...
06.08.2024
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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.
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30.07.2024
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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 ...
10.07.2024| Verena Neumann