Socio-economic panel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Management: Stefan Liebig
Founding year: 1983
Institutionalization: 2003
Place: Berlin (at DIW Berlin )
Address: Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
DIW Berlin
Mohrenstrasse 58,
10117 Berlin
Website: www.diw.de/de/soep

The Socio-Economic Panel ( SOEP ) [ 'zœp ] is a representative repeat survey of private households in Germany . The survey has been carried out annually since 1984 with the same people and families (= always the same person panel ) (with new samples added over time). The interviewed persons and families were selected “at random” so that they represent the people living in Germany. Around 14,000 households and 30,000 people take part (as of 2015).

Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is the name of the scientific study and also the name of a department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). The SOEP is an infrastructure facility of the Leibniz Association . Due to the worldwide use of the data, the spelling “socio-economic panel” is a bit out of the ordinary: in the term “economic” the umlaut ö is replaced by “oe” so that the abbreviation is internationally understandable and at the same time fits the German name.

In 2008, the Science Council rated the research quality of the SOEP as excellent.

The SOEP data

In the field of microanalytical research on socio-economic issues, the socio-economic panel in Germany and in international comparison occupies an outstanding position. 

With the help of the SOEP, political and social changes in Germany can be observed and analyzed. The data help to answer sociological , economic , psychological , demographic , health-scientific and geographical questions.

They are passed on to researchers and scientific research groups for evaluation as an electronic data record if conditions exist that guarantee compliance with the provisions of German data protection.

In addition to the main study (SOEP Core), further longitudinal data sets are now being collected and / or passed on in the SOEP Research Data Center .

Size and development of the sample

The sample included in the survey year 2007, about 12,000 households with more than 20,000 interviewees (and over 6,000 children living in households). The main topics include household composition, employment and family biography, labor force participation and occupational mobility, income trends, health and life satisfaction .

SOEP partial samples (2017)
sample Start year households people description
A0 West German 1984 n = 4,528 n = 12,239 The head of the household is either German ( FRG ) or a different nationality than in sample B.
B foreigners0 1984 n = 1,393 The head of the household is of Turkish , Italian , Spanish , Greek or (formerly) Yugoslav nationality
German reunification
C0 East Germans 1990 n = 2,179 n = 4,453 The head of the household was a citizen of the GDR
D emigrants0 1994/1995 n = 522 n = 1,078 Min. one member of the HH immigrated to Germany after 1989.
E0 refreshment 1998 n = 1,067 n = 1,923 Random sample; Extension of all partial samples
F0 innovation 2000 n = 6,052 n = 10,886 Random sample; Extension of all partial samples
G0 high income 2002 n = 1,224 n = 2,222 Monthly Household income is greater than 4,500 euros (7,500 DM )
H0 refreshment 2006 n = 1,506 n = 2,616 Random sample; Extension of all partial samples
I0 incentive 2009 (until 2010) n = 1,531 n = 2,509 Random sample; Expansion of all partial samples; in innovation sample (SOEP-IS) since 2011
J0 refreshment 2011 n = 3,136 n = 5,161 Random sample; Extension of all partial samples
K0 refreshment 2012 n = 1,526 n = 2,473 Random sample; Extension of all partial samples
L10 birth cohort (2007-2010) 2010 n = 2,074 n = 7,670 Part of the study Families in Germany, at least one household member was born between January 2007 and March 2010
L20 family type I 2010 n = 2,500 n = 8,838 Part of the study families in Germany, at least one criterion: single parent, low income or large family with more than 3 children
L30 family type II 2011 n = 924 n = 3,579 Part of the study families in Germany, at least one criterion: single parent or large family with more than 3 children
M10 migration (1995-2010) 2013 n = 2,732 n = 7,445 immigrated to Germany since 1995 and second generation migrants, born after 1976
M20 migration (2009-2013) 2015 n = 1,096 n = 2,638 immigrated to Germany between 2009 and 2013
M3 / 40 refugees 2016 n = 3,320 n = 9,965 immigrated to Germany between 2013 and the beginning of 2016 with an application for asylum
M5 refugees 2017 n = 1,519 n = 4,161 immigrated to Germany between 2013 and the end of 2016 with an application for asylum
N refreshment 2017 n = 2,314 n = 4,807 Adoption of households from the PIAAC study

The field study , i.e. the annual survey , is called “Living in Germany” and is carried out on behalf of Kantar Public (formerly TNS Infratest Social Research). The data collected in the field are anonymized and sent to the SOEP.

Properties of the data

The respondents become not only objective characteristics, such as their income or the characteristics of their home, but also subjective characteristics, e.g. B. asked about worries and their satisfaction with life . The people take part in the survey voluntarily; in contrast to the official microcensus, for example . A SOEP household can grow with children or people who move into the household (snowball effect). Moving out is also conceivable, for example through divorce or emigration. Such people will also be followed up.

In addition, the SOEP is characterized by the following aspects:

  • the longitudinal design ( panel character );
  • the household context (survey of all adult household members);
  • the possibility of domestic German comparisons and deeply structured geographical classifications;
  • a disproportionate sample of foreigners; This is currently the largest repeat survey among foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany; the sample includes households with a head of household of Turkish, Spanish, Italian, Greek or former Yugoslav nationality;
  • the survey of immigration (currently the only methodologically reliable sample of immigrants who came to West Germany between 1984 and 1995);
  • the disproportionate consideration of high-income households (since 2002).

privacy

The data of the socio-economic panel are subject to the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the European General Data Protection Regulation . This means that the data collected in the interview are anonymized in the SOEP so that individual respondents are no longer identifiable and the data can be passed on to scientific research groups for analysis as “statistical microdata”. To do this, you need to conclude a data transfer contract with DIW Berlin .

Data users and research results

The anonymised micro data of the SOEP are made available to researchers free of charge for their own analyzes. The SOEP data is currently being evaluated by over 400 user groups worldwide. Around 250 users analyze the data in German research institutions (including all universities and 22 universities of applied sciences). Around 100 users work overseas, including around 50 in the United States.

The SOEP aims to collect all scientific publications with the SOEP data and to publish their information. To date, there are more than 9,000 publications, the details of which are accessible online via their own database and which - if available on the Internet - are linked.

With 34 articles, the SOEP is by far the most important microdata set for quantitative articles in the Zeitschrift für Soziologie .

DIW Berlin presents current results in the form of press releases.

The SOEP as a research-based infrastructure facility

The infrastructure facility

The implementation and development of the SOEP takes place as a research-based infrastructure facility of the Leibniz Association (WGL) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

management

The SOEP was founded in 1983 with Hans-Jürgen Krupp as director. In 1988 Hans-Jürgen Krupp switched to politics and went to Hamburg as Senator for Finance . In 1989 Gert G. Wagner took over SOEP management. In 2007, Wagner expanded the SOEP management team with Jürgen Schupp as survey manager and Joachim Frick (†) as head of the SOEP Research Data Center (FDZ).

In February 2011 Gert G. Wagner took over the chairmanship of DIW Berlin for an interim period until February 2013 . During this period, Jürgen Schupp and Joachim R. Frick jointly took over management of the infrastructure on an interim basis. In February 2013, Jürgen Schupp was confirmed as Director of SOEP by the DIW Berlin Board of Trustees. At the beginning of 2018, Stefan Liebig took over the office of SOEP Director. Since then, the SOEP has been headed by a directorate, which includes the director and four divisional heads.

financing

Since the beginning of 2003, SOEP as a "service facility" has been financed two thirds by the federal government ( Federal Ministry of Education and Research , BMBF) and one third by the State of Berlin (currently the Governing Mayor of Berlin). From 1984 to 2002 the funding took place as a project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the basis of special funds from the federal and state governments.

Research priorities

Cooperations

The SOEP is part of many international comparative data collections and international scientific projects.

Databases

Projects

  • European Panel Analysis Group (EPAG), since 1990.
  • Dynamics of Social Change (DynSoc), 2000-2003.
  • Euro-Panel Users Network (EPUNet), 2002–2005.
  • Consortium of Household Panels for European Socio-economic Research (CHER).

literature

  • Jan Goebel et al .: The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics. Volume 239 No. 2, 2019, pp. 345–360 ( doi: 10.1515 / jbnst-2018-0022 , freely accessible via EconStor )
  • SOEP et al .: 25 waves Socio-Economic Panel . In: Quarterly issues for economic research . tape 77 , no. 3 . Duncker & Humblot, 2008 ( ejournals.duncker-humblot.de [accessed July 3, 2013]).
    • Hans-Jürgen Krupp: The beginnings: The history of the origins of SOEP . In: Quarterly issues for economic research . 77th year, no. 3 , 2008, p. 15-26 , doi : 10.3790 / vjh.77.3.15 .
    • Ute Hanefeld, Jürgen Schupp: The first six waves of SOEP: the panel project in the first years 1983–1989 . In: Quarterly issues for economic research . 77th year, no. 3 , 2008, p. 27-42 , doi : 10.3790 / vjh.77.3.27 .

Web links

Leibniz Association (WGL)

German Institute for International Educational Research ( DIPF )

Datasets with SOEP participation

(all pages in English)

  • Ohio State University User Package for the C ross- N ational E equivalent F ile (CNEF)
  • L uxembourg I ncome S tudy (a cross-national Data Archive) - LIS
  • E uro P anel U sers' Net work (University of Essex) - EPUNet

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SOEP website
  2. ↑ Martin Kroh: Weighting in the SOEP. (PDF; 511 kB) Accessed August 11, 2012 .
  3. ↑ SOEP Wave Report 2015, online at: https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.535678.de/wave_report_2015.pdf
  4. ↑ idw-online.de
  5. ^ Strong sociology in the Leibniz Association - IDW press release April 18, 2008
  6. ↑ Wissenschaftsrat rates the research quality of the SOEP as “excellent” - IDW press release April 2, 2008
  7. ^ DIW Berlin: Datasets. March 1, 2007, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ SOEPcompanion - The SOEP Samples in Detail. Accessed November 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Anne Bohlender, Simon Huber, Axel Glemser (Kantar Public): SOEP-Core - 2016: Method Report Samples A-L1 (=  SOEP Survey Paper . No. 493 ). SOEP / DIW-Berlin, Berlin 2019 ( diw.de [PDF]).
  10. ↑ Rainer Siegers, Veronika Belcheva, Tobias Silbermann (2019) .: SOEP-Core v34 - Documentation of Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (1984 until 2017) (=  SOEP Survey Paper . No. 606 ). SOEP / DIW-Berlin, Berlin 2019 ( https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.619037.de/diw_ssp0606.pdf SOEP Survey Papers 606 [PDF]).
  11. ↑ TNS Infratest: Living in Germany. Retrieved July 3, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Schupp, J., & Wagner, GG (2010). A quarter of a century Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In Psychology – Culture – Society (pp. 239–272). VS publishing house for social sciences. P. 244f
  13. ↑ Data access. Information on the use of SOEP data. SOEP, accessed July 5, 2013 .
  14. ↑ SOEPlit literature database. SOEP / DIW-Berlin, accessed on October 29, 2019 (English).
  15. ↑ Jürgen Schupp: 25 Years of the Socio-Economic Panel . An infrastructure project of empirical social and economic research in Germany. In: Journal for Sociology (ZfS) . tape 38 , no. 5 , October 2009, p. 350–357 ( zfs-online.org [accessed July 3, 2013]).
  16. ↑ DIW Berlin press releases on SOEP
  17. ↑ WGL: Interdisciplinary network of infrastructure facilities (IVI)
  18. ^ DIW Berlin: We mourn Joachim R. Frick. Retrieved May 22, 2013 .
  19. ^ DIW Berlin: Team of the research-based infrastructure facility 'Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)'. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Data offered by the LIS Cross-National Data Center. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 44 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 19.3 ″  E