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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 ...
03.02.2022
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The SOEPnewsletter January 2022 in it's html version.
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01.02.2022
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Once again, we warmly invite you to participate in our survey of SOEP users.This year, we are very curious about your assessments and experiences with our SOEP data, especially your work with specific data sets or samples, as well as the data format of your analysis.
With your participation, you contribute significantly to the continuous improvement of our data offering.
You can also participate ...
19.11.2021
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The 2020 SOEP Annual Report presents an overview of all our activities in the last year. It shines a spotlight on the SOEP’s new projects, partners, and services; Kantar's fieldwork for the various SOEP samples; and the process of data preparation and distribution.
The report is available online free of charge. We would also be happy to send you a hard copy on request (soepmail@diw.de).
23.07.2021| Janina Britzke
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As reported in our last newsletter, Infas has been conducting the fieldwork for the SOEP study since the start of this year. The main SOEP-Core samples are currently in the field, and we are happy to report that surveying is going very well. Infas has also launched a new website presenting the SOEP study to respondents.
22.07.2021
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Registered data users can now order the data using our online order form. In English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorderIn German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellung
The most important news on the 2019 data release:
Data from the 2018 innovation modules are included
We now provide documentation on all SOEP-IS modules to date as a SOEP Survey Paper .
The SOEP-IS Companion provides additional information
An ...
22.07.2021| SOEPhotline
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All registered data users can order the data using our online order form. In English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellung
In 2019, two interesting new samples were added: the Top Shareholder Sample (Sample P) and the LGBTQ Sample (Sample Q) covering lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and those who identify as non-binary.
Due to new developments ...
12.04.2021| SOEPhotline
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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 ...
15.03.2021
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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 ...
12.03.2021
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The SOEPnewsletter December 2020 in it's html version.
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21.12.2020
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The SOEPnewsletter October 2020 in it's html version.
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12.10.2020
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For data users of SOEP-Core, the SOEP provides assistance in two analysis programs. One is a stata.ado and the other - new one - an R package.The application simply has to be installed in the respective program and helpful information on the desired data sets or variables can be provided.
More information in our SOEPcompanion.
If you have questions or remarks, please contact Hans Walter Steinhauer ...
12.10.2020
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The SOEP’s longitudinal samples (SOEP-Core, SOEP-IS) provide an opportunity to carry out supplementary surveys of a large, representative sample of the German population. From mid-September to mid-November, the SOEP at DIW Berlin and the Robert Koch Institute will be conducting voluntary COVID-19 infection and antibody tests on adult survey respondents in around 21,000 SOEP households. Participants ...
01.10.2020
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Ulrike Ehrlich of the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA), Lara Minkus and Moritz Hess of SOCIUM, Bremen, received the Best Paper Award 2020 for young researchers from the German Society for Demography in April 2020. The paper, entitled “Einkommensrisiko Pflege? Der Zusammenhang von familiärer Pflege und Lohn” (“The care-wage penalty: the association between family care and ...
28.09.2020
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The SOEP Linked Employer-Employee (SOEP-LEE) survey was conducted for the first time in 2012 and is now entering its second round as SOEP-LEE2. In cooperation with the Institute for Employment and Labour Relations (IPA) at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and funded by the Center for Digitization and Technology Research of the German Armed Forces (DTEC.Bw), ...
28.09.2020
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From April to June 2020, the SOEP conducted the survey “The Spread of the Coronavirus in Germany: Socio-Economic Factors and Consequences” (SOEP-CoV) in cooperation with the University of Bielefeld and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (for a description of the methodology in German, see: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/7748 ). For SOEP-CoV, ...
17.09.2020
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In order to facilitate novel user's access to the rich data-source of the SOEP, we will host two online-workshop series in August and November.
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 ...
01.07.2020
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The first Corona edition (SOEPnewsletter April 2020) with links to
result of the Leibniz evaluation of the SOEP at DIW Berlin,
results of the 2019 SOEP User Survey,
data news (SOEP-IS, SOEP-Core and LIS/LWS),
SOEP staff news
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30.04.2020
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According to a study based on SOEP data, thanks to the increasing freedom to choose between parenthood and gainful employment and to organize childcare individually, mothers and fathers today are more satisfied with their lives than parents 20 or 30 years ago. The study was conducted by a research group led by Swiss sociologist Klaus Preisner.
Preisner, Klaus, Franz Neuberger, Ariane Bertogg, ...
30.04.2020
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Michael Krämer has been working as a research assistant at the SOEP since November 1, 2019, on the DFG-funded project, “Personality and social relationship dynamics: Short- and medium-term processes in daily life (DIPS),” with David Richter. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science in Clinical and Health Psychology, both from Freie Universität Berlin. ...
29.04.2020