The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study 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 German society in 1994/95. Further new samples were added in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013 The survey is constantly being adapted and developed in response to current social developments. The international version contains 95% of all cases surveyed.
Titel: German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), data of the years 1984-2013, International Scientific Use Version
DOI: 10.5684/soep.v30ibeta
Collection period: 1984-2013
Publication date: Dec.12, 2014
Principal investigators: Jürgen Schupp, Martin Kroh, Jan Goebel, Carsten Schröder, Elisabeth Bügelmayer, Marco Giesselmann, Markus Grabka, Peter Krause, Simon Kühne, Elisabeth Liebau, David Richter, Rainer Siegers, Paul Schmelzer, Christian Schmitt, Daniel Schnitzlein, Ingrid Tucci, 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 | 87,095 |
| Number of variables | 52,997 in 389 data sets |
| Data format | STATA, SPSS, SAS, CSV |
| MD5 fingerprints of the data sets |
Stata Ger.+Eng. (95% version) | TXT, 17.05 KB |
Publications:
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) 2013: 2) Individual (PAPI) 2013 Field-de,en 4) Individual (PAPI) 2013 Field-en,de
Household (PAPI) 2013: 6) Household (PAPI) 2013 Field-de,en
Biography (PAPI) 2013: Field-de
Catch-up Individual 2013: Field-de
Youth (16-17 year-olds) 2013: Field-de
Mother and Child (Newborns) 2013: Field-de
Mother and Child (2-3-year-olds) 2013: Field-de
Mother and Child (5-6-year-olds) 2013: Field-de
Parents and Child (7-8-year-olds) 2013: Field-de
Mother and Child (9-10-year-olds) 2013: Field-de
Deceased Individual 2013: Field-de
Your Life abroad 2013: Field-de
Please find all sample specific questionnaires of this year and all questionnaires of previous years on this site
1) SOEP FiD – 'Familien in Deutschland', Data Documentation Release FiDv4.0
2) SOEP 2013 – Informationen zu den SOEP-Geocodes in SOEP v30
3) SOEP 2013 – Documentation on Biography and Life History Data for SOEP v30
4) The 2013 IAB-SOEP Migration Sample (M1): Sampling Design and Weighting Adjustment
5) SOEP 2013 – Documentation of the Person-Related Meta-dataset PPFAD for SOEP v30
6) SOEP 2013 – Documentation of the Household-related Meta-dataset HPFAD for SOEP v30
7) SOEP 2013 – Documentation of Person-Related Status and Generated Variables in PGEN for SOEP v30
8) SOEP 2013 – Documentation of Household-Related Status and Generated Variables in HGEN for SOEP v30
10) SOEP 2013 – Documentation of the Person-Related Meta-dataset HEALTH for SOEP v30
11) SOEP 2013 – Documentation of Generated Person-Level Long-Term Care Variables in PFLEGE
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