The ''German'' Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP [], for ''Sozio-oekonomisches Panel'') is a Longitudinal study, longitudinal panel dataset of the population in Germany. It is a household based study which started in 1984 and which reinterviews adult household members annually. Additional samples have been taken from time to time. In 2015, there will be about 14,000 households, and more than 30,000 adult persons sampled. Some of the many topics surveyed include household composition, occupation, employment, earnings, health and
life satisfaction
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. The annual surveys are conducted by the
German Institute for Economic Research
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(DIW Berlin) and the
Kantar Group
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. The survey is funded by the German Federal Government and the State of Berlin via the «Bund-Länder-Kommission» (State/Federal State Commission) for Educational Planning and Research Promotion.
[SOEP-Overview/Organization & Financing](_blank)
(URL accessed 2013-05-28)
Data are available to
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researchers in Germany and abroad in
SPSS
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/
PSPP
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,
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Stata
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,
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S-PLUS
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and
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format. Extensive documentation in English and German is available online.
SOEP data are integrated into the
Cross National Equivalent File {{Unreferenced, date=July 2022
The 'Cross-National Equivalent File'(CNEF)contains data from general population household-based panel surveys fielded in Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Russia, Switzerland and the United State ...
(CNEF) which contains panel data from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States. The data distribution of the SOEP for researchers outside of Germany is supplied with the CNEF by a group at
Ohio State University
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. Application to use this international distribution has to be made to the
DIW Berlin.
Subsamples
See also
*
Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)
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*
Cross-National Equivalent File {{Unreferenced, date=July 2022
The 'Cross-National Equivalent File'(CNEF)contains data from general population household-based panel surveys fielded in Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Russia, Switzerland and the United State ...
(CNEF)
*
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey is an Australian household-based panel study which began in 2001. It has been used for examining issues such as the incidence of persistent poverty; assets and income in the t ...
(HILDA,
*
Panel Study of Income Dynamics The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a longitudinal panel survey of American families, conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.
The PSID measures economic, social, and health factors over the life course of f ...
(PSID)
*
Swiss Household Panel (SHP
access 2013-05-28)*
LISS panel ThLISS panel(Longitudinal Internet studies for the Social Sciences) is an online household panel. The panel consists of some 5000 households in the Netherlands, comprising approximately 7500 individuals over the age of 16. The panel is based on a tr ...
(LISS)
*
Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW)
*
UK households: a longitudinal study (UKHLS) / Understanding Society, UK
** formerly
British Household Panel Survey
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(BHPS), UK
Notes
External links
SOEP (official) website(URL accessed 2013-05-28)Cross National Equivalent File (CNEF)(URL accessed 2016-01-28)Swiss Household Panel(URL accessed 2013-05-28)LISS panel(URL accessed 2013-05-28)
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