Update of the original SOEP data set http://dx.doi.org/10.5684/soep.v27
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).