We have developed and implemented a new sampling strategy to better represent very wealthy individuals in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our strategy is based on the empirical regularity that the very wealthy have at least part of their assets invested in businesses, and that businesses...

Individuals with assets in the millions of euros have been underrepresented in population surveys and accordingly little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the existing data gap, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) inte-...

This paper details the sampling design, results from the field, analysis of selectivities, as well as raking procedures used in the SOEP-CoV study. The sample consists of a random selection of 12,000 households in the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The sample was divided and surveyed in nine...

Dieses Papier stellt das Stichprobendesign, Ergebnisse der Feldarbeit, Analysen zur Selektivität sowie Informationen zur Randanpassung der Studie Sozio-ökonomische Faktoren und Folgen der Verbreitung des Coronavirus in Deutschland vor. Die Stichprobe setzt sich aus einer zufälligen Auswahl...

In autumn 2020, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) joined forces with the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to launch the study "Living in Germany-Corona Monitoring" on the prevalence of current and past SARS-CoV-2 infections in a sample of the adult population in Germany. The survey began shortly...

This documentation describes the data preparation of the new consumption module in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and introduces the content and structure of the generated dataset "hconsum". In 2010, the SOEP for the first time included a detailed consumption module in the...