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The SOEPnewsletter No. 90 / October 2010 is available.Please see: The Comment: Jacqui Smith underlines the importance of subjective indicators in longitudinal studies and argues for more harmonization efforts for international comparisons SOEP Data Release 1984-2009 – now available in the EEA countries What’s new in the 1984-2009 data distribution (SOEP v26)? What’s ‘v26’, ...
30.09.2010
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Personnel news
On Sunday afternoon (September 12, 2010) our former colleague Johannes Schwarze tragically lost his life at the age of 51 in a road accident near Bamberg where he lives. The accident was caused by a motorist.Johannes Schwarze worked for the SOEP from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. From 2000 onward, he was a Research Professor at DIW Berlin. After holding positions as Deputy Chair in Bochum and Professor ...
30.09.2010
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The shipping of the DVD containing the SOEP data 1984-2009 (wave Z, v26) just started. 26 waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data are available for Euro 30,- (plus shipping costs) within EEA.If you want to get the data, you have to have a data distribution contract and have to order the data.More information about our conditionsOrder form onlineOrder form
22.09.2010
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The recently opened SOEP Archive for Re-Analysis of Published Findings now contains the first datasets.On our website you will find not only links to completely anonymized datasets used in some publications and available for free in the internet. We also provide information to publications using a working dataset deposited at our archive, available for licenced SOEP users, as well as references to ...
22.09.2010
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Photo: Stephan Röhl The 9th International Conference of SOEP Users has been a great success. More than 70 presentations (incl. poster session) were given and more than ...
22.07.2010
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The SOEPnewsletter 89 (July 2010) is online now. SOEPnewsletter 89
30.06.2010
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The SOEP is not only active at scientific conferences; we also work hard to bring our work to the broader public. We had the chance to do so the evening of June 5, 2010, at the tenth annual “Long Night of the Sciences” in Berlin. At this event, the capital city’s scientific institutions open their doors to the public for workshops, lectures, and activities. SOEP participated this ...
08.06.2010
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Mathis Schröder took over coordination of the project “Familien in Deutschland” (FID, families in Germany) in May 2010 as senior project manager. He studied economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and during this time also worked for SOEP as a student research assistant. In 2006 he attained his Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY/USA. After working for six ...
06.05.2010
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SOEP user Richard A. Easterlin of the University of Southern California/USA was awarded the 2009 IZA Prize in Labor Economics in October of last year. He was recognized, according to the prize committee, for his “outstanding research on the analysis of subjective well-being and on the relationship between demographic developments and economic outcomes.” He has expanded traditional economic ...
15.04.2010
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The SOEPnewsletter 88 (April 2010) is online now. SOEPnewsletter 88
31.03.2010
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The SOEP team was happy to welcome Rainer Siegers on February 1, 2010. Having already helped to improve the basis for income analyses using SOEP data as a SOEP student intern in 2007, Rainer has since completed his Master of Science in Statistics at the Free University of Berlin and now joins us in a multi-year project on the collection of a new dataset on German families (Familien in Deutschland, ...
24.03.2010
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In December 2009 Elisabeth Birkner joined the SOEP Survey Group as Junior Survey Manager. She completed a degree in Sociology at University of Leipzig. After graduation she worked as a Scientific Assistant at the Chair for Sociology and Methodology at the University of Leipzig and served for four years as a Research Fellow in the project “Labour Market Integration: Ethnic Germans and Jewish Immigrants ...
22.12.2009
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The shipping of the DVD containing the SOEP data 1984-2008 (wave Y) just started. 25 waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data are available for Euro 30,- (plus shipping costs) within EEA.If you want to get the data, you have to have a data distribution contract and have to order the data.More information about our conditionsOrder formUnfortunately shortly after completing the DVD, errors in data generation ...
09.11.2009
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In recent years more and more of the scholarly journals that publish empirical papers using microdata stipulate that the microdata be submitted for archiving along with the paper itself. Making SOEP and CNEF data available for reanalysis while maintaining the highest levels of data protection, can present a major challenge-The Reseach Data Center of the SOEP is now offering users opportunities to make ...
28.09.2009
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We are pleased to inform you about the changes in the current dataset (1984-2008, wave Y) here or in the SOEPnewsletter 86.
28.09.2009
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We have found some bugs in the data distribution wave X (1984-2007).for more information see Research Data Center SOEP --> Changes in the Dataset -->Known Bugs/Fixes
28.07.2009
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The DIW Board of Trustees appointed the new SOEP Survey Committee. It will provide advice on the further development of the SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice.
28.07.2009
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Wave 25 (2008) data distribution to contain numerous new featuresJuly 2009The new data will be distributed in late fall 2009. The upcoming Wave 25 (2008) data distribution will include numerous improvements, additions, and modifications. The most important of these are listed in the following:We will provide an update and revision of the post-stratification scheme and an additional regional calibration ...
28.07.2009
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The Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in cooperation with the SOEP longitudinal study at DIW Berlin, is calling for applications for a W3 professorship(S professorship with reduced teaching load).Deadline: August 20, 2009to the job announcement
27.07.2009
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Publication
Available now: The Proceedings of the 8th International SOEP User Conference SOEP 2008 published in Schmollers Jahrbuch 129 (2). Please see the contents with links to abstracts and (access restricted) downloads.
27.07.2009