SOEP-Core v27 - Known Bugs/Fixes

BIOAGE03
The age of the children was not correct and had to be recalculated. In addition, some missing values for children’s weight and height had the wrong value “0” and had to be recoded. Finally, the number of doctor visits for the survey years 2005 and 2006 were set to “0” by mistake and had to be recoded.

BIOAGE06
For 14 children, the birth month was missing although this information was available in recent waves. This information was added. In addition, one incorrect person number and one incorrect household number were changed.

BIOAGE08
The age of the children was not correct and had to be recalculated.

LIFESPELL
In the update of the dataset LIFESPELL, approximately 100 cases of emigration were recoded for the time period 2006-2010. In the original version of v27 they were incorrectly specified as living in Germany. The revised LIFESPELL file also contains new information about the year of death for a small number of individuals. For more information please contact Hannes Neiss (hneiss@diw.de). 

An update for all corrected files can be downloaded, but only by means of a personalized link. Please contact soepmail@diw.de to obtain such a link.

Please note: If you use one of the provided bugfixes in your analyses we recommend citing it as follows:
English:
Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), data for years 1984-2010, version 27.2, SOEP, 2012.
German:
Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Daten für die Jahre 1984-2010, Version 27.2, SOEP, 2012.
Short Version:
SOEP v27.2

 COGDJ
In the file COGDJ, the 2010 data had not yet been updated in the released version. For a bugfix for download please contact soepmail@diw.de.

 English labels
In the data sets ZHBRUTTO and BAHBRUTTO, some of the English labels shifted position and had to be redefined. This applies to the following variables:

Also, in the $PGEN data sets, no English value labels were generated for the new variables on educational degrees and training qualifications prior to joining the panel. This applies to the English labels for the following variables:
FIELD$$, DEGREE$$, and TRAINA$$–TRAIND$$.

If you use one of those variables, please contact soepmail@diw.de to obtain a download link for the bugfixes.

PPFADL in SOEPlong
In the SOEPlong data version distributed earlier this year, the following two variables in the file PPFADL had missing values in 2010:

HID — key indicator for households and
NETT1 — the short version of the tracking variable NETTO.

An update for PPFADL can be downloaded, but only by means of a personalized link. Please contact soepmail@diw.de to obtain such a link. 

Please note: If you use one of the provided bugfixes in your analyses we recommend citing it as follows:
English:
Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), data for years 1984-2010, version 27.1, SOEP, 2012.
German:
Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Daten für die Jahre 1984-2010, Version 27.1, SOEP, 2012.
Short Version:
SOEP v27.1.