The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is a wide-ranging representative longitudinal study of private households, located at the German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin. Every year, there were nearly 11,000 households, and more than 20,000 persons sampled by the fieldwork organization TNS Infratest Sozialforschung. The data provide information on all household members, consisting of Germans living in the Old and New German States, Foreigners, and recent Immigrants to Germany. The Panel was started in 1984. Some of the many topics include household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators. As early as June 1990-even before the Economic, Social and Monetary Union-SOEP expanded to include the states of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), thus seizing the rare opportunity to observe the transformation of an entire society. An immigrant sample was added as well to account for the changes that took place in Germany society in 1994/95. Further new samples were added in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2009. The survey is constantly being adapted and developed in response to current social developments.
Titel: German Socio-oeconomic Panel Study (SOEP), data of the years 1984-2010
DOI: 10.5684/soep.v27.2i
Collection period: 1984-2010
Publication date: May 2, 2012
Principal investigators: Gert. G. Wagner, Joachim R. Frick, Jürgen Schupp, Silke Anger, Marco Giesselmann, Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Elke Holst, Peter Krause, Martin Kroh, Elisabeth Liebau, Henning Lohmann, David Richter, Christian Schmitt, Daniel Schnitzlein, Juliana Werneburg
Worldwide version
International Science Use Version of the SOEP (95 % version). This data set can be used worldwide. Please contact Dean R. Lillard at Cornell University, USA, for further information.
Information about the data set:
| Number of units | 63.385 |
| Number of variables | 45.536 in 339 data sets |
| Data format | STATA, SPSS, SAS, CSV |
| MD5 fingerprints |
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| csv_95.zip | 335ae73554471441b0e8985432e0554c |
| sas_de_95.zip | cd5596925276411498095cbbb3af4544 |
| sas_en_95.zip | 1f26b0736a3c65e0c097885d856ca9f8 |
| spss_de_95.zip | 9cceff962da6508173b6a5ce49477b2f |
| spss_en_95.zip | 1fa8b41c66f9f7a4c3adae66cfe68123 |
| stata_de_95.zip | 10a613e07be17f7f28f54a17dd402574 |
| stata_de+en_95.zip | 704f0849761543d1f3f888ae3fa07c64 |
| stata_en_95.zip | 68a0268e42853e775b7d040aff0fec42 |
Publications using this file should refer to the above DOI Find an explanation on the usage of DOI here.and cite following references
If you do not exclude the cases of the migration samples in your analysis, then please also cite the following reference:
If you do not exclude the cases of the refugee samples in your analysis, please also cite:
If you use data from the SOEP-LEE2 surveys, please also cite:
If you would like to refer more specifically, please also cite:
Survey Instruments 2010: 2) Survey Instruments 2010 Field-de
Please find all sample specific questionnaires of this year and all questionnaires of previous years on this site
1) Handgreifkraftmessung im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) 2006 und 2008
2) Documentation on ISCED Generation Using the CAMCES Tool in the IAB-SOEP Migration Samples M1/M2
3) The new IAB-SOEP Migration Sample: an introduction into the methodology and the contents
4) The Request for Record Linkage in the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample
5) Flowcharts for the Integrated Individual-Biography Questionnaire of the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample 2013
6) The Measurement of Labor Market Entries with SOEP Data: Introduction to the Variable EINSTIEG_ARTK
7) Job submission instructions for the SOEPremote System at DIW Berlin – Update 2014
8) SOEP 2015 – Informationen zu den SOEP-Geocodes in SOEP v32
9) Editing and Multiple Imputation of Item Non-response in the Wealth Module of the German Socio-Economic Panel
10) Die Vercodung der offenen Angaben zu den Ausbildungsberufen im Sozio-Oekonomischen Panel
11) Das Studiendesign der IAB-BAMF-SOEP Befragung von Geflüchteten
12) Scales Manual IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany – revised version
13) SOEP 2010 – Preparation of data from the new SOEP consumption module: Editing, imputation, and smoothing
14) SOEP Scales Manual (updated for SOEP-Core v32.1)
15) Kognitionspotenziale Jugendlicher - Ergänzung zum Jugendfragebogen der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP)
16) Die Vercodung der offenen Angaben zur beruflichen Tätigkeit nach der International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO08) - Direktvercodung - Vorgehensweise und Entscheidungsregeln bei nicht eindeutigen Angaben
17) Die Vercodung der offenen Angaben zur beruflichen Tätigkeit nach der Klassifikation der Berufe 2010 (KldB 2010): Vorgehensweise und Entscheidungsregeln bei nicht eindeutigen Angaben
18) Multi-Itemskalen im SOEP Jugendfragebogen
19) Dokumentation zum Entwicklungsprozess des Moduls „Einstellungen zu sozialer Ungleichheit“ im SOEP (v38)
20) SOEP-CoV: Project and Data Documentation
21) Missing Income Data in the German SOEP: Incidence, Imputation and its Impact on the Income Distribution
22) Zur Erhebung des adaptiven Verhaltens von zwei- und dreijährigen Kindern im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)
23) SOEP 2013 – Documentation of Generated Person-Level Long-Term Care Variables in PFLEGE
24) SOEP-Core v34 – PFLEGE: Documentation of Generated Person-level Long-term Care Variables
25) SOEP 2006 – TIMEPREF: Dataset on the Economic Behavior Experiment on Time Preferences in the 2006 SOEP Survey
26) SOEP-Core v34: Codebook for the EU-SILC-Like Panel for Germany Based on the SOEP
27) Assessing the distributional impact of "imputed rent" and "non-cash employee income" in microdata : Case studies based on EU-SILC (2004) and SOEP (2002)
28) 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
1) SOEP 2010 – Methodenbericht zum Befragungsjahr 2010 (Welle 27) des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels
2) SOEP FiD – 'Familien in Deutschland' 2010: Methodenbericht