Known Bugs/Fixes - Update Wave T

Files

SOEP-UPD.EXE (EXE, 13.22 MB)

SOEP-UPD.ZIP (ZIP, 13.13 MB)

How to install the update data step by step 

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Step 1

Be sure you are

  1. on a windows system with CD-ROM-drive,
  2. you have picked up the actual CD-ROM 3,
  3. you know the correct password of this wave.

Download then the file SOEP-UPD.EXE from the top of this page. If you are not allowed to download any EXE-files choose the file SOEP-UPD.ZIP.

Copy the downloaded file in any directory with write access of your own.

a. SOEP-UPD.EXE : Run the file in the following manner

    SOEP-UPD.EXE -pass=password
    password represents the actual password of wave 20!

b. SOEP-UPD.ZIP :
    Copy from CD-ROM 3 the files FBZIP.EXE and FBZIP.BIN in the same directory and             run it with

              FBZIP.EXE SOEP-UPD.ZIP

    To extract the archive you will asked to submit the actual password of wave 20.

After this procedure you get four files:

README.1ST In principle this text. 
SOEP-20.COD Helds the encoded data.
TEST-CD3.EXE Program testing if CD-ROM 3 existing.
PI_CODE2.EXE Program decoding SOEP-UPD.COD if CD-ROM3 is available.

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Step 2

Put the CD-ROM 3 in any drive. Please close the SOEP-Window supposing it appears.

Run the program TEST-CD 3.EXE without any parameters.
If the correct CD-ROM 3 is found, SOEP-UPD.COD will be decoded to an unprotected self-extracting-file UPD-20.EXE with all update files you need.

Run it without any parameters, too, UPD-20.EXE
and you will get the following files

  1. SPEL_100.EXE
    to replace with the correspondent file in \PROGRAMS\NEWSPELL\
  2. BIOMARSM.*,BIOMARSY.*,HHRFAG.*,PHRFAG.*
    (* = DTA, SAV, POR ,XPT ,SAS7BDAT)
    Copy the suitable files in your SOEP-Directory. Consider HHRFAG and PHRFAG are new files.

    - HHRFAG contains the variables SHHRFAG and THHRFAG (Integrated household weights)
    - PHRFAG contains the variables SPHRFAG and TPHRFAG (Integrated individual weights)
  3. UPD2RUN.EXE and SOEP-20.UPD
    SOEP-20.UPD contains mixed updates for different records. With assistance of the program UPD2RUN.EXE you will create huge syntax-files for your specific statistic package.

The application is very is easy:

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Step 3

The program UPD2RUN.EXE corrects variables defined in the ASCII-update file named SOEP-20.UPD.

Start the program with

             UPD2RUN.EXE /t= /s=

<type of files>:

por  = SPSS - portable files
Output: UPD_POR.SPS
sav  = SPSS - system files
Output: UPD_SAV.SPS
dta  = STATA - system files
Output: UPD_DTA.DO
sas7bda  = SAS - system files
Output: UPD_SAS7.SAS

<soeppath>

            directory of data (write access is required)  

Proposed you want update your STATA Files and your data lay down in the subdirectory E:\GSOEP20.
In this case run the program with

            UPD2RUN.EXE /t=dta /s=E:\GSOEP20

The result is a DO-File named UPD_DTA.DO. Run it in STATA and the work is done.

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Remark 1: UNIX-user

You also have to generate the syntax-files on a windows-system. Nevertheless use the Unix syntax for the specification. For example: e:/gsoep20 (Unix) e:\gsoep20 (Windows).

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Remark 2: SAS problems

A) SAS labels

The labels of the $TYPHH2 variable in data sets AHGEN to MHGEN have to be changed, therefore you may download and let run these scripts:

script for English labels (SAS, 15.15 KB)
script for German labels (SAS, 12.83 KB)

B) SAS-Export files

The program UPD2RUN using SAS-export files runs not properly until now.
We recommend you to use SAS-system-files or to contact us!

See our website if a newer version of UPD2RUN is available.

If there are any problems or questions please contact Jan Goebel.

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