The availability of panel data on the basis of micro data has become an indispensable component of the infrastructure … of empirically oriented social scientists and economists. This is also a consequence of the fact that, for a panel survey … which can be analyzed increases (e.g., social and regional mobility, life-course transitions like changing employment …

deceased participants of the nation-wide German Socio-Economic Panel Study (Mage at death = 74 years; SD = 14; 48% women …

subjects. However, regional selectivity of the study and potential learning effects due to the panel structure of the data … biases when trying to obtain results from the National Cohort that are representative for the total population of Germany. We … suggest that the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) should be used as a reference data set for population …

data from 2,910 now deceased participants of the nation-wide German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP; ageat death: M = 74 …