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The German Socio-Economic Panel as Reference Data Set

This paper discusses how household panels in general?and the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) in particular?can serve as reference data for researchers collecting datasets that do not represent the full universe of the population of interest (e.g., through clinical trials, intervention studies, laboratory and behavioural experiments, and cohort studies). We first discuss potential benefits of using questions similar to those in the SOEP for studies where researchers are interested in using the SOEP as reference data. We present a comprehensive list of SOEP core questions that we recommend researchers to consider when collecting their own data. We focus on seven topics: (1) demographic and parental characteristics; (2) labour market; (3) health; (4) personality, preferences, and subjective orientations; (5) subjective wellbeing; (6) political involvement and participation, and finally, a set of core questions for young children before they enter school. Of course the selection of a minimum set of questions depends on the research question. In this paper, we offer general advice for the selection of variables to researchers interested in comparing their own data with the SOEP.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: RatSWD Working Paper ; No. 48

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Thema
clinical trials
intervention studies
behavioural experiments
cohort studies
household panels
SOEP
reference data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Siedler, Thomas
Schupp, Jürgen
Spiess, C. Katharina
Wagner, Gert G.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Siedler, Thomas
  • Schupp, Jürgen
  • Spiess, C. Katharina
  • Wagner, Gert G.
  • Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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