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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 annual surveys are conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). 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].

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.

SOEP data are integrated into the Cross National Equivalent File (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 Cornell University. Application to use this international distribution has to be made to the DIW Berlin.

Contents 1 SOEP Subsamples 2 See also 3 Notes 4 External links

SOEP Subsamples 2006^[2]

Sample	Start	Households	Description
A West-German residents	1984	n=4528	Head is either German or other nationality than those in Sample B
B Foreigners	1984	n=1393	Head is either Turkish, Italian, Spanish, Greek or Yugoslav
C East-Germans	1990	n=2179	Head was a citizen of the GDR (expansion of survey territory)
D Immigrants	1994/1995	n=522	At least one household member has moved to Germany after 1989 (expansion of survey population)
E Refreshment	1998	n=1067	Random sample covering all existing subsamples (total population)
F Innovation	2000	n=6052	Random sample covering all existing subsamples (total population)
G High Income	2002	n=1224	Monthly net household income is more than 4.500 Euro (7.500 DM)

• 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)
• PanelWhiz for Stata

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)

• SOEP (official) website. (English version. URL accessed 29-Oct-2006)
• Cross National Equivalent File (CNEF)
• PanelWhiz - Tool for Extracting Panel Data in Stata

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