SOEP-Core v24 - Known Bugs/Fixes

The corrected datasets are now available to be downloaded as a password-protected ZIP file from our homepage. To obtain download access to the corrected datasets, please send an e-mail to soepmail@diw.de or call the SOEPhotline at +49 30 89789 292.

To unzip the files, you will need the password for the current 1984-2007 data distribution, or the password used to access the expanded regional data in the GGKBOU dataset. If you do not have the current data distribution, please contact our hotline (soepmail@diw.de).

The fixed files are:

• HHRF (weighting factors for households): in preparing the weighting factors for households, an older version was mistakenly distributed for the variables WHHRFALL and XHHRFALL. These have now been replaced with the revised version.
• PBIOSPE: Due to a problem in data storage, some of the earnings biographies surveyed since wave U for the first time or subsequently were not recorded correctly. PBIOSPE was therefore revised retroactively from wave U on.
• XHBRUTTO: Here, an erroneous code for the East German federal states was corrected in the variable XBULA.
• WP: WKLAS, WIS88, WIS88N and WKLASN were updated. This was necessary since some data had been overwritten with missings.
• WPGEN/XPGEN: Because of the corrections to WKLAS and WIS88 in WP, it was necessary to update some generated variables which are derived from $KLAS and $IS88: This includes the variables IS8806, ISEI06, MPS06, SIOPS06, EGP06 and KLAS06. Furthermore, due to the revision of PBIOSPE (see above) EXPFT$$, EXPPT$$ and EXPUE$$ were also updated.
• HBRUTT00: Because of a conflict in household IDs for the expanded original gross sample F, the household IDs had to be changed in some cases. This only applies to households that did not provide valid SOEP interviews.
• GGKBOU: As a result of the change in HBRUTT00, the identifier HHNR was adapted in some cases in this dataset as well.