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The Individual in Context(s): Research Potentials of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in Sociology

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  • Giesselmann, Marco
  • Bohmann, Sandra
  • Goebel, Jan
  • Krause, Peter
  • Liebau, Elisabeth
  • Richter, David
  • Schacht, Diana
  • Schröder, Carsten
  • Schupp, Jürgen
  • Liebig, Stefan

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The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study is a rich resource for sociologists, mainly because it offers direct measures of respondents’ contexts. The SOEP data provide (i) information retrieved from individuals themselves, (ii) direct information retrieved from their parents, partners, and organizations, (iii) prospectively collected information on past characteristics, and (iv) regional and spatial identifiers allowing researchers to link the data with regional-level characteristics. As the study has been in the field since 1984, the data also reflect variation in institutional and structural settings over time. Regular refreshment samples provide options to identify cohort effects. Together, these features allow multi-layered contextual designs that offer substantive insights into the effects of formal and informal institutions on individual behaviour and living conditions. This article introduces the main types of SOEP-based sociological research designs and discusses their survey methodological origins. It also points to underexplored potentials as well as limitations of the SOEP. Finally, it offers basic suggestions for approaching the data in each of the research designs presented.

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  • Giesselmann, Marco & Bohmann, Sandra & Goebel, Jan & Krause, Peter & Liebau, Elisabeth & Richter, David & Schacht, Diana & Schröder, Carsten & Schupp, Jürgen & Liebig, Stefan, 2019. "The Individual in Context(s): Research Potentials of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in Sociology," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 35(5), pages 738-755.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:204658
    DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcz029
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    1. Petrik Runst & Jörg Thomä, 2023. "Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 61(1), pages 417-443, June.
    2. Marius Leckelt & Johannes König & David Richter & Mitja D. Back & Carsten Schröder, 2022. "The personality traits of self-made and inherited millionaires," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 9(1), pages 1-12, December.
    3. Marco Giesselmann & Alexander Schmidt-Catran, 2018. "Interactions in Fixed Effects Regression Models," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1748, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    4. Marcel Erlinghagen & Christoph Kern & Petra Stein, 2019. "Internal Migration, Social Stratification and Dynamic Effects on Subjective Well Being," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 1046, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
    5. Ulrich Rendtel & Stefan Liebig & Reinhard Meister & Gert G. Wagner & Sabine Zinn, 2021. "Die Erforschung der Dynamik der Corona-Pandemie in Deutschland: Survey-Konzepte und eine exemplarische Umsetzung mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) [The research on the dynamics of the Corona," AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, Springer;Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft - German Statistical Society, vol. 15(3), pages 155-196, December.
    6. Ingo S. Seifert & Julia M. Rohrer & Stefan C. Schmukle, 2023. "Using Within-Person Change in Three Large Panel Studies to Estimate Personality Age Trajectories," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 1191, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).

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