The Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and the Research Centre on Migration, Integration, and Asylum of the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ) are working together on a project to survey people seeking protection in Germany from political persecution and violent conflicts. The influx of refugees to Germany, which rose sharply in the second half of 2015, poses challenges for public policy, government administration, and the population at large. To effectively coordinate lodging and assistance for these refugees and to foster their long-term integration into the labor market, educational system, and other societal spheres, robust and reliable information is needed that can be generalized and applied usefully to the challenges at hand. It is up to the empirical social research to provide a data base for these purposes.
The data have been integrated into the SOEP-Core data sets (since SOEP v33.1).
A detailed study description is available under Integrated Studies.
Title: IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Survey of Refugees 2024
DOI Zur Erklärung von DOI und dessen Verwendung gibt es hier Informationen.: 10.5684/soep.iab-bamf-soep-mig.2024
Publication date: 2026-XX-XX
Data collector: infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft
Collection period: 2016-2024
Principal investigators: Herbert Brücker, Yuliya Kosyakova, Nina Rother, Christian Hunkler, Sabine Zinn
Affiliated persons for providing the Scientific Use File: Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Christian Hunkler, Carsten Schröder, Sabine Zinn, Mattis Beckmannshagen, Philippa Cumming, Jascha Dräger, Jan Eckhard, Maye Ehab, Andreas Franken, Kseniia Gatskova, Martin Gerike, Daniel Graeber, Florian Griese, Jörg Hartmann, Philipp Jaschke, Selin Kara, Daniel Labarca Pinto, Amrei Maddox, Antonia Meier, Cristóbal Moya, Jana Nebelin, Hanne Oldenhof, Rebecca Olthaus, Marvin Petrenz, Denise Rolle, Claudia Saalbach, Sarah Satilmis, Rainer Siegers, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Felix Süttmann, Yogam Tchokni, Parvati Trübswetter, Knut Wenzig
Citation of the data set: IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees 2024, data 2016-2024. 2026. DOI: 10.5684/soep.iab-bamf-soep-mig.2024 or - if used - 10.5684/soep.core.v41eu)
Reference articles:
If you do not exclude the cases of the migration samples in your analysis, then please also cite the following reference:
Documentation on the dataset: Further information and documentation on the dataset can be found on the SOEP-Core v41eu page.