The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is a 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 of East Germans (from 1990, coincident with reunification) and immigrants (in 1994) as well as in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2006. In 2007, there will be about 12,000 households, and more than 20,000 adult persons sampled. Some of the many topics surveyed include household composition, occupation, employment, earnings, health and life satisfaction. The survey is funded by the German Federal Government and the State of Berlin via the Bund-Länder Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion ^[1]. Longitudinal studies form a class of research methods that involve observations of the same items over a longer time. ... In statistics and econometrics, the term panel data refers to two-dimensional data. ... The household is the basic unit of analysis in many microeconomic and government models. ... The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, in English commonly called East Germany) were incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, in...

Data are available to social science researchers in Germany and abroad in SPSS, SAS, Stata, and ASCII format. Extensive documentation in English and German is available online. The social sciences are groups of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. ... SPSS is a statistical program used by many businesses and academic institutions around the world. ... The SAS System, originally Statistical Analysis System, is an integrated system of software products provided by SAS Institute that enables the programmer to perform: data entry, retrieval, management, and mining report writing and graphics statistical and mathematical analysis business planning, forecasting, and decision support operations research and project management quality... Stata is a statistical program used by many businesses and academic institutions around the world. ... There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ...

SOEP data are integrated into the Cross National Equivalent File which contains panel data from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States.

SOEP Subsamples

SOEP Subsamples 2006^[2]

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See also

• Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)
• British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
• Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA)
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), carried out at the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Essex, is an instrument for social and economic research. ... The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey is an Australian household-based panel study which began in 2001. ...

Notes

1. ^ SOEP-Overview/Organization & Financing http://www.diw.de/english/sop/uebersicht/index.html#1.6 (URL accessed 27-Nov-2006)
2. ^ Introduction to the SOEP (June 2006)

External links

• SOEP (official) website. (English version. URL accessed 29-Oct-2006)
• Cross National Equivalent File (CNEF)