Forschungsdatenzentrum des SOEP
Also known as Das Sozio-Oekonomische Panel · FDZ SOEP · Research Data Center of the Socio-Economic Panel · Research Data Center of the SOEP
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is a wide-ranging representative longitudinal study of private households, located at the German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin. Every year, there were nearly 11,000 households, and more than 20,000 persons sampled by the fieldwork organization TNS Infratest Sozialforschung. The data provide information on all household members, consisting of Germans living in the Old and New German States, Foreigners, and recent Immigrants to Germany. The Panel was started in 1984. Some of the many topics include household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators.
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| Website | https://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.678568.en/research_data_center_soep.html |
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| Subjects | Humanities and Social Sciences · Social and Behavioural Sciences · Social Sciences · Economics · Empirical Social Research · Statistics and Econometrics |
| Last updated | 2026-09-13 |