This report details the design of the boost Sample Q to the SocioEconomic Panel (SOEP) in 2019. Sample Q supplemented the SOEP Core sample by queer households, including gender and sexual minorities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans* respondents (LGBTQ*). Recruitment of these households...

Objective: This study examines how changes in cohabitation or marital status affect Body Mass Index (BMI) over time in a large representative sample. Methods: Participants were 20,950 individuals (50% female; 19 to 100 years), representative of the German population, who provided 81,926...

Web surveys technically allow providing feedback to respondents based on their previous responses. This personalized feedback may not only be used to target follow-up questions, it also allows test results to be returned immediately to respondents. This paper argues that the possibility of...

In von Unsicherheit geprägten Zeiten wie der COVID-19-Pandemie ist Vertrauen in die Mitmenschen eine wichtige gesellschaftliche Ressource: Denn die Pandemie kann nicht durch einzelne Institutionen oder Personen, sondern nur durch breite gesellschaftliche Kooperation überwunden werden. Wie...

SOEP-CoV - "The Spread of the Coronavirus in Germany: Socio-Economic Factors and Consequences" is a joint research project of SOEP at DIW Berlin and Bielefeld University. The project was launched in April 2020 immediately after the outbreak of the virus in Germany and aimed to establish a survey...

Die Corona-Krise verändert nahezu alle Aspekte des gesellschaftlichen Lebens in Deutschland und weltweit. Die mit der Eindämmung des Virus verbundenen Maßnahmen wie Kontaktbeschränkungen, "Social Distancing" und die Schließung von Schulen, Geschäften, Restaurants und kulturellen...