The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

Gert Wagner, Joachim Frick and Jürgen Schupp

No 1, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living conditions and based on a multitude of variables from the social sciences for both theoretical investigation and the evaluation of policy measures. Cohort and panel studies are therefore called upon to become truly interdisciplinary tools. In Section 3, we describe the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), in which we discuss recent improvements of that study which approach this ideal and point out existing shortcomings. Section 4 concludes with a discussion of potential future issues and developments for SOEP and other household panel studies.

Keywords: SOEP; household panel studies; survey design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 C91 D10 D31 D63 D80 I0 J0 N34 P36 R23 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: I, 32 p.
Date: 2007
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