Developing SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice

Abstract

"After 25 years as a multidisciplinary household panel containing information on all individuals residing in panel households and thus covering all age cohorts, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) has become a true cohort study as well.<br> The numerous innovations introduced into SOEP in recent years - questions dealing with psychological concepts, physical health measures (grip strength), measures of cognitive capabilities, and behavioral experiments - have been incorporated into other panel studies as well, and thus provided with a larger sample base.<br> In the future, the 'margins' of the life course should play a stronger role in survey content, since household panels are able to provide outstanding data of these life phases." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Anger, S., Frick, J., Goebel, J., Grabka, M., Groh-Samberg, O., Haas, H., Holst, E., Krause, P., Kroh, M., Lohmann, H., Schupp, J., Sieber, I., Siedler, T., Schmitt, C., Spieß, C., Tucci, I. & Wagner, G. (2009): Developing SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice. The (near) future of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 155), Berlin, 35 p.