The Research Data Center of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (FDZ-SOEP) at DIW Berlin offers comprehensive services and coordinates access to the data of SOEP, the largest longitudinal household survey in Germany.
The de facto anonymized data are made available for scholarly analysis. Standardized means of data access are provided (scientific use files, research stays at DIW Berlin, teleprocessing).
Interested researchers can, upon request, conclude the data use contract that forms the precondition for using the scientific use files distributed on DVD. Furthermore, the SOEP Research Data Center supports methodological training at universities through lectures and workshops. A guest program allows for on-site data use at the Research Data Center, particularly the regional data, which are defined as sensitive under data protection legislation. As a special service, the SOEP Research Data Center advises researchers who want to use SOEP as reference data or a control sample for their own studies.
The work of the SOEP Research Data Center is based on the Criteria of the Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD). Financing is provided to for the Research Data Center, as an infrastructure facility for scholarly research, through the Leibniz Association upon decision by the Joint Science Conference.
Further information can be found on the website of the SOEP Research Data Center under:
http://www.diw.de/SOEPrdc.
You can contact our hotline directly by
per e-mail: soepmail@diw.de
per telephon: +49 (0)30 89789-292
or by mail:
DIW Berlin
SOEP
10108 Berlin
