Menschen mit geringem Einkommen und Arbeitsuchende sind politisch weniger interessiert und aktiv als Personen oberhalb der Armutsrisikoschwelle sowie Erwerbstätige. Die Ungleichheit in der politischen Beteiligung ist in Deutschland im Vergleich zu anderen europäischen Demokratien leicht...

The computation of cross sectional weights in household panels is challenging because household compositions change over time. Sampling probabilities of new household entrants are generally not known and assigning them zero weight is not satisfying. Two common approaches to cross sectional...

In household panels, typically all household members are surveyed. Because household composition changes over time, so-called following rules are implemented to decide whether to continue surveying household members who leave the household (e.g. former spouses/partners, grown children) in...