Prof. Dr. Sabine Zinn

Prof. Dr. Sabine Zinn

Acting Director SOEP of the

German Socio-Economic Panel study Research Infrastructure

Research Topics and Working Areas
Prof. Dr. habil. Sabine Zinn is acting head of the Socio-Economic Panel. She is a is a social scientist with expertise in Computational Social Science, focusing on migration, education, and health research. Prior to joining the SOEP (Socio-Economic Panel), she studied economic mathematics at the University of Jena and pursued her doctorate in statistical demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock. She then worked as a statistician on the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) at the University of Bamberg, subsequently leading the Survey Statistical Methods department at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories in Bamberg. Sabine obtained her Ph.D. in "Modeling and Simulation" from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Rostock and earned her teaching qualifications in "Survey Statistics" and "Demography.

Publications

International Statistical Review

Validating an index of selection bias for proportions in non-probability samples

2024 | Hammon, A. and Zinn, S.
Survey Research Methods

Recent Methodological Advances in Panel Data Collection, Analysis, and Application

2023 | Zinn, S. and Wolbring, T.
Demography

Emigration Rates From Sample Surveys: An Application to Senegal

2017 | Willekens, F. and Zinn, S. and Leuchter, M.
International Journal of Microsimulation

The MicSim Package of R: An Entry-Level Toolkit for Continuous-Time Microsimulation

2014 | Zinn, S.
SOEP Survey Papers ; 1497 : Series C - Data Documentations (Datendokumentationen) / 2025

IAB-SOEP-Migration – 2022: Sampling, Nonresponse, and Weighting in Sample M8b

2025| Hans Walter Steinhauer, Parvati Trübswetter, Tanja Fendel, Boris Ivanov, Adriana Cardozo Silva, Felix Süttmann, Rainer Siegers, Sabine Zinn
SOEP Survey Papers ; 1496 : Series C - Data Documentations (Datendokumentationen) / 2025

SOEP-Core – 2022: Sampling, Nonresponse, and Weighting in Sample R

2025| Hans Walter Steinhauer, Rainer Siegers, Felix Süttmann, Reiner Gilberg, Folkert Aust, Martin Kleudgen, Sabine Zinn
DIW Berlin - Politikberatung kompakt 204 / 2025

Lebenssituation und Teilhabe ukrainischer Geflüchteter in Deutschland: Ergebnisse der IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung

2025| Herausgeberinnen: Yuliya Kosyakova, Nina Rother, Sabine Zinn, Autor*innen: Susanne Bartig, Louise Biddle, Matteo Jacques Büsche, Adriana Cardozo Silva, Philippa Cumming, Jan Eckhard, Kseniia Gatskova, Theresa Koch, Yuliya Kosyakova, Andrea Marchitto, Silvia Schwanhäuser, Manuel Siegert, Elena Sommer, Felix Süttmann, Kerstin Tanis, Nina Rother, Sabine Zinn
DIW aktuell ; 105 : Sonderausgaben zur Bundestagswahl 2025 / 2025

Deutschland braucht eine nachhaltige und effektive Migrations- und Integrationspolitik

2025| Marcel Fratzscher, Sabine Zinn
DIW Wochenbericht 51/52 / 2024

Wie auch Deutschland von Auslandsüberweisungen profitiert: Kommentar

2024| Sabine Zinn
Refereed essays Web of Science

Attitudes, Experiences, and Usage Intentions of Artificial Intelligence: A Population Study in Germany

In: Telematics & Informatics 98 (2025), 102265, 9 S. | Timo Gnambs, Jan-Philipp Stein, Sabine Zinn, Florian Griese, Markus Appel
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Deutschland braucht 400.000 Migranten – pro Jahr

In: Die Zeit (07.02.2025), [Online-Artikel] | Marcel Fratzscher, Sabine Zinn
Refereed essays Web of Science

Validating an Index of Selection Bias for Proportions in Non-probability Samples

In: International Statistical Review (2025), im Ersch. [Online first: 2024-08-07] | Angelina Hammon, Sabine Zinn
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Von privaten Geldüberweisungen profitiert auch Deutschland

In: die tageszeitung (19.12.2024), S. 12 | Sabine Zinn
Other refereed essays

An Economical Measure of Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence in Work, Healthcare, and Education (ATTARI-WHE)

In: Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans 3 (2024), 100106, 9 S. | Timo Gnambs, Jan-Philipp Stein, Markus Appel, Florian Griese, Sabine Zinn

Lectures

Vortrag

SOEP 2.0: A Novel Research-Based Data Infrastructure for Analyzing Long-Term Social Trends and Short-Term Dynamics

Sabine Zinn
Berlin, 15.05.2025 - 16.05.2025
| Mitgliederversammlung des Ausschusses für Makroökonomik, Verein für Socialpolitik
Vortrag

Exploring Nationwide Household Sampling: Random Routes vs Residents - Registration Office Approach

Felix Süttmann, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Florian Griese, Sabine Zinn
Colchester, Großbritannien, 24.09.2024 - 26.09.2024
| Inequalities Across Life Courses and Generations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Annual Conference, SLLS 2024 Annual Conference
Vortrag

Navigating Challenges: A Comprehensive Approach to Sampling Ukrainian Refugees in Germany Using Population Registers

Hans Walter Steinhauer, Sabine Zinn
Colchester, Großbritannien, 24.09.2024 - 26.09.2024
| Inequalities Across Life Courses and Generations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Annual Conference, SLLS 2024 Annual Conference
Vortrag

Advancing Microsimulation Modelling: Introducing Gaussian Process Emulators

Sabine Zinn, Angelina Hammon
Regensburg, 10.09.2024 - 13.09.2024
| Statistische Woche 2024
Vortrag

Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel und seine Eignung für die Gesundheitsforschung

Sabine Zinn
Berlin, 03.09.2024
| Scientific Talk: Robert Koch-Institut

Research Projects

Research Project

DECIPHE – Demographic Change and the Intergenerational Persistence in Homeownership in Europe

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (RISC)

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Groups put at Particular Risk by COVID 19 (GaPRisk)

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany”

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

IAB-SOEP Migration Sample

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Longitudinal Study of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany (SUARE)

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Pandemic Preparedness: One Health, One Future

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Short-time work, unemployment and gender inequalities

Current Project| Gender Economics
Research Project

Video-interviewing as part of a targeted multi-mode design in household panel surveys (CALVI)

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Nationwide Antibody Study “Living in Germany—Corona Monitoring” (RKI-SOEP)

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Non-probability Internet Surveys

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Refugee Families in Germany (Geflüchtete Familien in Deutschland, GeFam 2)

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Second Nationwide Antibody Study “Living in Germany – Corona Monitoring” (RKI-SOEP-2)

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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