Soeben ist der Wave Report 2013 des SOEP erschienen. Er gibt eine zusammenfassende Darstellung der SOEP-Aktivitäten 2013: 30 Wellen SOEP sind Anlass für eine kurze Betrachtung über die Bedeutung eines so lange laufenden Surveys mit dem Hinweis auf die von uns erstellte Chronik zur Entwicklung...

Die Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) stellt seit nunmehr 25 Jahren für die sozial-, verhaltens- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Grundlagenforschung Mikrodaten bereit. Der Beitrag präsentiert einen Überblick dieser national wie international bedeutsamen...

This article describes how the German Socio-Economic Panel longitudinal study project developed over the years 1983 to 1989, a period when practical experience was being gathered with the first six waves and when the further funding for this large-scale project was a constant issue. During this...

This study examines the phenomenon of nonresponse in the first wave of a refresher sample (subsample H) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Our first step is to link additional (commercial) microgeographic data on the immediate neighborhoods of the households visited by...

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

The availability of panel data on the basis of micro data has become an indispensable component of the infrastructure of empirically oriented social scientists and economists. This is also a consequence of the fact that, for a panel survey, the quality of both content and methodological analyses...