The ''German'' Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP [], for ''Sozio-oekonomisches Panel'') is a Longitudinal study, longitudinal panel dataset of the population in Germany. It is a household based study which started in 1984 and which reinterviews adult household members annually. Additional samples have been taken from time to time. In 2015, there will be about 14,000 households, and more than 30,000 adult persons sampled. Some of the many topics surveyed include household composition, occupation, employment, earnings, health and

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. The annual surveys are conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the

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. The survey is funded by the German Federal Government and the State of Berlin via the «Bund-Länder-Kommission» (State/Federal State Commission) for Educational Planning and Research Promotion.SOEP-Overview/Organization & Financing
(URL accessed 2013-05-28) Data are available to

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researchers in Germany and abroad in SPSS/

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/ DAP,

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format. Extensive documentation in English and German is available online. SOEP data are integrated into the

Cross National Equivalent File {{Unreferenced, date=July 2022 The 'Cross-National Equivalent File'(CNEF)contains data from general population household-based panel surveys fielded in Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Russia, Switzerland and the United State ...

(CNEF) which contains panel data from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States. The data distribution of the SOEP for researchers outside of Germany is supplied with the CNEF by a group at

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. Application to use this international distribution has to be made to the

DIW Berlin The German Institute for Economic Research (german: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), or, more commonly DIWBerlin, is a economic research institute in Germany, involved in basic research and policy advice. It is a non-profit acad ...

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