International Scientific Use Version of the SOEP data (95 % version of the dataset https://doi.org/10.5684/soep.v32). This data set can be used worldwide.
Title: Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), data from 1984-2015, International Scientific Use Version
DOI: 10.5684/soep.v32i
Collection period: 1984-2015
Publication date: December 14, 2016
Principal investigators: Jürgen Schupp, Jan Goebel, Martin Kroh, Carsten Schröder, Charlotte Bartels, Klaudia Erhardt, Alexandra Fedorets, Marco Giesselmann, Markus Grabka, Peter Krause, Simon Kühne, David Richter, Diana Schacht, Paul Schmelzer, Christian Schmitt, Daniel Schnitzlein, Rainer Siegers, Knut Wenzig
Data collector: TNS Infratest Sozialforschung GmbH.
Population: Persons living in private households in Germany.
Selection method: All samples of SOEP are multi-stage random samples which are regionally clustered. The respondents (households) are selected by random-walk.
Collection mode: The interview methodology of the SOEP is based on a set of pre-tested questionnaires for households and individuals. Principally an interviewer tries to obtain face-to-face interviews with all members of a given survey household aged 16 years and over. Additionally one person (head of household) is asked to answer a household related questionnaire covering information on housing, housing costs, and different sources of income. This covers also some questions on children in the household up to 16 years of age, mainly concerning attendance at institutions (kindergarten, elementary school, etc.).
Data set information:
Number of units | 108,063 |
Number of variables | 61,902 in 413 data sets |
Data format | STATA, SPSS, SAS, CSV |
MD5 fingerprints
Distribution format | zip files |
all files |
Stata bilingual | 6aa30370b3c551e4de090517d6864a4e | | TXT, 18.11 KB |
Stata German | 302b6da0a2aa99a476ea3ab614c0479c | | TXT, 18.11 KB |
Stata English | 68d78d13bcf7da1fca87b0a26935f387 | | TXT, 18.11 KB |
SPSS German | 673fabae8a45da5a4add30b8d65a001b | | TXT, 18.11 KB |
SPSS English | e3071ed3fe978d388a3d10b3943e302d | | TXT, 18.11 KB |
SAS German | 56343155b20a726128588a4e8814091b | | TXT, 20.23 KB |
SAS English | 8b39126e717ee4c9a6ba07966152c455 | | TXT, 20.23 KB |
CSV | a550b1448e22e3f21dd8dafbb3fa0bbb | | TXT, 18.11 KB |
Publications:
Gert G. Wagner, Joachim R. Frick, and Jürgen Schupp (2007): The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Scope, Evolution and Enhancements, Schmollers Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies), 127 (1), 139-169 (download).
Joachim R. Frick, Stephen P. Jenkins, Dean R. Lillard, Oliver Lipps und Mark Wooden (2007): The Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) and its Member Country Household Panel Studies, Schmollers Jahrbuch, Jg. 127 (4) , 627-654 (download).
Publications using this file should refer to the above DOI Find an explanation on the usage of DOI here.and cite one of the following references
Individual (PAPI) 2015: Field-de Field-en Var-de Var-en
Household 2015: Field-de Field-en Var-de Var-en
Biography (PAPI) 2015: Field-de Var-de Var-en
Youth (16-17 year-olds) 2015: Field-de Var-de Var-en
Pre-Teen (11-12 year-olds) 2015: Field-de
Mother and Child (Newborns) 2015: Field-de
Mother and Child (2-3-year-olds) 2015: Field-de
Mother and Child (5-6-year-olds) 2015: Field-de
Parents and Child (7-8-year-olds) 2015: Field-de
Mother and Child (9-10-year-olds) 2015: Field-de
Deceased Individual 2015: Field-de
Please find all sample specific questionnaires of this year and all questionnaires of previous years on this site
1) SOEP-Core v32 – Documentation on Biography and Life History Data
3) The 2015 IAB-SOEP Migration Study M2: Sampling Design, Nonresponse, and Weighting Adjustment
5) SOEP-Core v32 – Documentation of the Household-related Meta-dataset HPFAD
8) SOEP-Core v32.1 – Documentation of Person-related Status and Generated Variables in $PGEN
9) SOEP-Core v32 – Documentation of Household-related Status and Generated Variables in $HGEN
12) SOEP-Core v32 – KIDLONG: Pooled Dataset on Children
13) SOEP-Core v32 – Person-related Variables on Children in $KIND
1) Handgreifkraftmessung im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) 2006 und 2008
2) The new IAB-SOEP Migration Sample: an introduction into the methodology and the contents
3) The Request for Record Linkage in the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample
5) The Measurement of Labor Market Entries with SOEP Data: Introduction to the Variable EINSTIEG_ARTK
6) Job submission instructions for the SOEPremote System at DIW Berlin – Update 2014
7) SOEP 2015 – Informationen zu den SOEP-Geocodes in SOEP v32
9) Die Vercodung der offenen Angaben zu den Ausbildungsberufen im Sozio-Oekonomischen Panel
10) Das Studiendesign der IAB-BAMF-SOEP Befragung von Geflüchteten
11) Scales Manual IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany – revised version
13) SOEP Scales Manual (updated for SOEP-Core v32.1)
17) Multi-Itemskalen im SOEP Jugendfragebogen
21) SOEP-CoV: Project and Data Documentation
25) SOEP-Core v36: Codebook for the EU-SILC-like panel for Germany based on the SOEP
All documentation for filtering can be found on this page