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Refereed essays Web of Science
An increasing number of social science surveys use split questionnaire designs to reduce questionnaire length, presenting only a subset of several questionnaire modules to each respondent while leaving out others. This approach results in large amounts of planned missing data that necessitates imputation. Research shows that imputation is most effective when each module covers various topics. Yet, ...
In:
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
(2026), im Ersch. [online first:2025-09-29]
| Julian B. Axenfeld, Christian Bruch, Christof Wolf
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Forced migration has intensified in the 21st century, driven by conflicts, persecution, and political instability in regions such as the Middle East, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America and, most recently, Ukraine. Germany has become a primary destination for refugees within the European Union and one of the largest among the OECD countries. The IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, ...
In:
European Sociological Review
42 (2026), 1, S. 146–163
| Herbert Brücker, Yuliya Kosyakova, Nina Rother, Sabine Zinn, Elisabeth Liebau, Wenke Gider, Silvia Schwanhäuser, Manuel Siegert
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper outlines two studies on education bias in German probability-based surveys. Study 1 reviews data from 67 surveys across 19 survey programs conducted in Germany from 2000 to 2023. We found a consistent underrepresentation of individuals with a low level of formal education. We also found that the transition to self-administered modes due to rising survey costs may exacerbate this bias in ...
In:
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-06-11]
| Annika Stein, Tobias Gummer, Elias Naumann, Björn Rohr, Henning Silber, Roman Auriga, Michael Bergmann, Arne Bethmann, Michael Blohm, Carina Cornesse, Pablo Christmann, Mustafa Coban, Jean Philippe Décieux, Britta Gauly, Caroline Hahn, Susanne Helmschrott, Oshrat Hochman, Johannes Lemcke, Dörte Naber, Steffen Pötzschke, Joss Roßmann, Jan-Lucas Schanze, Tobias Schmidt, Silke L. Schneider, Heike Spangenberg, Tobias Rettig, Mark Trappmann, Michael Weinhardt, Bernd Weiß
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SOEPcampus
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general well-being, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long-running panel...
18.03.2026| Cristóbal Moya
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SOEPcampus
On October 6 and 7, 2026, we are organizing a two-day workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the composition, 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 at all qualification levels who want to work with SOEP data in...
06.10.2026| Cristóbal Moya
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SOEPcampus
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general well-being, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long-running panel...
04.11.2026| Cristóbal Moya
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
In March/April 2026 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.
To ...
17.02.2026| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
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 ...
17.02.2026| Janina Britzke, Levent Neyse
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Social relationships are central to well-being because they fulfill social affiliation needs. To explain how social needs are regulated, theories describe daily-life processes among social desire, social contact, and affect. Still, these processes remain empirically underexplored because of their complexity. In this study, we estimated multivariate associations of social desire and affect with social ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-01-08]
| Michael D. Krämer, Bernd Schaefer, Yannick Roos, David Richter, Cornelia Wrzus
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12%of male workers inWest Germany are affected, rising to above 30% for highly educated prime-aged workers. This missing right tail of the earnings distribution ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
246 (2026), 1, S. 5–34
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Johannes König, Isabella Retter, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Yogam Tchokni