SOEPnewsletter 2019-5

Data Service

• The new (2017) wave of SOEP-IS data has been released. To see what the data offer, click here.
• If you have not ordered the SOEP-IS data yet, you can place your order online in English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder or German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellung.
• We are pleased to present our new SOEPtutorial video series! SOEPtutorials are designed both for first-time users of the SOEP data and for users who would like a quick refresher to bring them back up to date. SOEPtutorials can be watched sequentially for a step-by-step introduction to working with the data, or individually for answers to specific questions (DIW Mediathek or SOEP YouTube).
• We are continuing to update our documentation on the current wave of the SOEP-Core. We have integrated the SOEPlong metadata into the SOEP-Core metadata on paneldata.org in the process of updating information on the current wave of SOEP-Core (v34). In addition, we made several other improvements to paneldata.org ( details here). The metadata-based questionnaires are also now available for the current wave. Further documentation will be available soon at: https://www.doi.org/10.5684/soep.v34
• We identified few small issues in the current wave of SOEP-Core data and have documented possible solutions (details here).
• Correction: Some of you noticed that in the last SOEPnewsletter, we announced the release of SOEP-Core data up to 2018. This was, of course, a mistake: v34 includes data up to 2017.

Events & Activities

• Please see our upcoming SOEPcampus events in Mannheim and Halle at: http://www.diw.de/soepcampus
• Results of the last SOEP User Survey

People & Papers

• Now online: our SOEP People video interview with Bruce Headey, who talks about the joys of academic life, recipes for happiness, and life as a roller coaster ride. 

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  SOEP People: A Conversation with Bruce Headey

• Staff and Community News on
  • Theresa Entringer
  • Dominique Hansen
  • Valeriia Heidemann
  • Stefan Liebig
  • Hans Werner Steinhauer
  • Sabine Zinn

• Publications
  • New reference work on the SOEP published: Goebel, Jan, Markus Grabka, Stefan Liebig, Martin Kroh, David Richter, Carsten Schröder & Jürgen Schupp  (2019): The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik [Journal of Economics and Statistics] 239(2), 345-360. DOI:10.1515/jbnst-2018-0022 (Open Access)
  • Current DIW Weekly Reports: Who supports an unconditional basic income? and Findings about the low-wage sector in Germany
  • Current journal publication:
    New parents experience up to six years of sleep deprivation according to a recently published article by SOEP team member David Richter in the journal SLEEP. As an "Editor's choice" article, it can be read in its entirety online at: https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/42/4/zsz015/5289255
  • Current SOEPpapers
  • Current SOEP Survey Papers
  • A summary of current presentations by the SOEP team.

On behalf of the whole SOEP team at DIW Berlin,
Uta Rahmann