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Researchers interested in submitting questions to the SOEP-IS 2017 survey should contact SOEP Survey Management by November 30, 2016, to present their proposal. If the project is determined to be viable from a survey methodology perspective, an official application procedure will follow. The official application must be received by December 31, 2016. Send us your proposal!
Applications should be submitted ...
21.10.2016
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Jennifer Hunt is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. Born in Australia and raised in Switzerland, she has held teaching and research posts in Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the USA. She served in the Obama Administration as Chief Economist in the US Department of Labor from 2013-14 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury from ...
21.10.2016
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We are currently fundamentally revising our documentation system paneldata.org. By the end of the year, we will have increased the user-friendliness of the system and made it possible to offer data from other studies. The software on which the system is based, DDI on Rails, is also being completely redeveloped (DDI on Rails 2). The first phase of our work focused on the technical implementation of ...
17.10.2016
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We are happy to presen our recent SOEPnewsletter 112, August 2016.
We like to inform about
the national dialogue on well-being and quality of life
the Call for Proposals for the next round of the SOEP Innovation Sample and top-up funding from the DFG,
an update of the 2014 release of the SOEP Innovation Sample (soep.is.2014.1),
the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey,
how it has been on the conferences ...
05.08.2016
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On June 23, 2016, at the 12th International SOEP User Conference at the WZB in Berlin, the sixth Felix Büchel Award was awarded to Rainer Winkelmann.
More on this prize and Felix Büchel
More on the 2016 award ceremony
01.07.2016
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We would like to remind you of the possibilities of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) and encourage you to consider using this instrument in developing new empirical research questions. SOEP-IS is well suited to short-term experiments, but it is particularly useful for long-term surveys that are not possible in the framework of the core SOEP—whether because the instruments are not yet established ...
21.06.2016
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In the file with generated longitudinal data on children (KIDLONG) in SOEP-Core v31.1 another correction had to be implemented: Some few data that only had been asked in the FiD study were missing.This applies to the variables KA06$$ (Activities for children below the age of 6) and KA16$$ (Activities for children aged 6 to 16).If you want to analyze these variables there are three ways to use the corrected ...
06.06.2016
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We recently published the SOEP data (SOEP v31.1) in long format.
If you are registered as SOEP data user you may order the data online and receive a personalized link to download the data via completely encrypted transfers.
Other interested researchers please have a look at our websites or contact the SOEPhotline to get information on access to the data.
"SOEPlong" is a highly compressed, ...
06.06.2016
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Dear SOEP-users,
In order to respond to many requests from our community for SOEP-training options, we have co-organized several Workshops in the upcoming months.
Unfortunately, the international workshop on longitudinal data management and analysis, based on SOEP data, to be held on June 22-24 in Ann Arbour at the Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has been cancelled.
Furthermore, we ...
10.05.2016
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The data from the 2014 survey of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) have now been released and can be ordered by SOEP users. Up to now, they have been provided through a secure website. The current data distribution contains the data from the 2011, 2012, and 2013 innovative modules.
The SOEP-IS contained the following innovative modules in 2011:
Implicit Association Test (IAT) and corresponding ...
25.04.2016
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Katharina Mahne is a Sociologist and Director of the German Aging Survey (DEAS) at the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA) in Berlin. She began her research career as a student assistant in the SOEP 10 years ago. Since then, she has been doing research on social relationships within families. Her current focus is on the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. She is one of the few researchers ...
25.04.2016
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To begin the process of appointing the next generation of leadership for the SOEP, a job advertisement for the position of Director of the SOEP has been published. The new SOEP Director should, if possible, begin on October 1, 2017.
21.04.2016
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To describe the SOEP-LEE data, which are available in the DSZ-BO Bielefeld, we provide the following documents:
Erhebungsinstrumente und Datenkodierung der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, SOEP Survey Papers 304
Methodenbericht der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, SOEP Survey Papers 305
Datenhandbuch der Betriebsbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen ...
21.04.2016
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Data from the first wave of the study PIAAC-L have been released on March 31st 2016. PIAAC-L is a joint project of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin, and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).
In 2014, around 4,000 people in Germany between the ages of 18 and 67 who had previously taken part in PIAAC 2012 (Programme ...
21.04.2016
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Update :
The documentation documents for the generated variables of the updated data distribution SOEP-Core v31.1 (data for the years 1984-2014) are available online, including the documentation of the biographical data sets.
Please download the zip file with this link.
We have also published the documents as separated files on our website Generated Variables.
06.04.2016
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We are happy to presen our recent SOEPnewsletter 111, April2016.
The relevant topics:
An update of the current wave 31 of the SOEP data (SOEP v31.1, data of the years 1984-2014) has been released, we inform about the changes in the data set.
A new release of the SOEP Innovation Sample (soep.is.2014) is on its way. You will find an overview about the innovative modules that will be available.
The ...
06.04.2016
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Matthias Pollmann-Schult has been a grant holder in the DFG’s Heisenberg Programme at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, since 2012. He was a student research assistant with the SOEP from 1997 to 2000. He is one of the few male sociologists doing research on fathers using the SOEP data. We talked to him about his findings on the new generation of “involved fathers,” on whether ...
28.12.2015
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As reported in SOEPnewsletter 109, two international conferences organized by the SOEP team will be taking place in Berlin in Summer 2016.
Don’t miss the deadlines to submit your papers:
ESPE 30, June 15-18, 2015: deadline for submissions is February 1, 2016.More information at http://www.espe2016.de
SOEP 2016, June 22-23, 2016: deadline for submissions is February 29, 2016. More information ...
28.12.2015
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New faces at the CNEF projectWe are pleased to introduce two new members of the OSU team. Laura Fumagalli (PhD economics University of Essex) is on temporary “loan” from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. At ISER Laura helps to impute missing data in Understanding Society. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge. While at OSU, Laura ...
28.12.2015
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The following topical modules were part of the SOEP-Core survey last year:
Control beliefs and reciprocity
Friends networks
Joint income
At the household level: household energy use
Last year’s SOEP survey was also the first to include detailed questions about the minimum wage. To give you an idea what data to expect in fall 2016, we have published the questionnaires on our website together ...
28.12.2015