SOEP-RV: Linking German Socio-Economic Panel Data to Pension Records

Holger Lüthen, Carsten Schröder, Markus Grabka, Jan Goebel, Mika Tatjana, Brüggmann Daniel, Ellert Sebastian and Penz Hannah
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Mika Tatjana: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Research Data Centre of German Pension Insurance, Berlin, Germany
Brüggmann Daniel: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Research Data Centre of German Pension Insurance, Berlin, Germany
Ellert Sebastian: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Research Data Centre of German Pension Insurance, Berlin, Germany
Penz Hannah: SOEP at DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2022, vol. 242, issue 2, 291-307

Abstract: The aim of the project SOEP-RV is to link data from participants in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey to their individual Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German Pension Insurance) records. For all SOEP respondents who give explicit consent to record linkage, SOEP-RV creates a linked dataset that combines the comprehensive multi-topic SOEP data with detailed cross-sectional and longitudinal data on social security pension records covering the individual’s entire insurance history. This article provides an overview of the record linkage project, highlights potentials for analysis of the linked data, compares key SOEP and pension insurance variables, and suggests a re-weighting procedure that corrects for selectivity. It concludes with details on the process of obtaining the data for scientific use.

Keywords: consent; pension records; record linkage; SOEP; SOEP-RV (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C18 C89 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2021-0020

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