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SOEP-Core – 2016: Individual and Biography (M3/M4, CAPI, with Reference to Variables) The German Socio-Economic Panel 656 SOEP Survey Papers Series A – Survey Instruments (Erhebungsinstrumente) SOEP — The German Socio-Economic Panel at DIW Berlin 2019 SOEP-Core – 2016: Individual and Biography (M3/M4, CAPI, with Reference to Variables) SOEP Group Running since 1984, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is a wide-ranging representative lon- gitudinal study of private households, located at the German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin. The aim of the SOEP Survey Papers Series is to thoroughly document the survey’s data collection and data processing. The SOEP Survey Papers is comprised of the following series: Series A – Survey Instruments (Erhebungsinstrumente) Series B – Survey Reports (Methodenberichte) Series C – Data Documentation (Datendokumentationen) Series D – Variable Descriptions and Coding Series E – SOEPmonitors Series F – SOEP Newsletters Series G – General Issues and Teaching Materials The SOEP Survey Papers are available at http://www.diw.de/soepsurveypapers Editors: Dr. Jan Goebel, DIW Berlin Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig, DIW Berlin and Universität Bielefeld Dr. David Richter, DIW Berlin Prof. Dr. Carsten Schröder, DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp, DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin Please cite this paper as follows: SOEP Group, 2019. SOEP-Core – 2016: Individual and Biography (M3/M4, CAPI, with Reference to Variables). SOEP Survey Papers 656: Series A – Survey Instruments (Erhebungsinstrumente). Berlin: DIW Berlin/SOEP This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. © 2019 by SOEP ISSN: 2193-5580 (online) DIW Berlin German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Mohrenstr. 58 10117 Berlin Germany [email protected] The German Socio Economic Panel at DIW Berlin SOEP-Core – 2016: Individual and Biography (M3/M4, CAPI, with Reference to Variables) SOEP Group 2019 The variable names mentioned in this document belong to a collection of datasets, which is released with doi:10.5684/soep.v34. SOEP Core study Individual and Biography (M3/M4) 2016 Contents B002 Personal details 6 B003 Country of Origin 8 B006 Journey to Germany 24 B007 Legal Status 42 B008 Lodging and Living Situation 46 B009 Planned Duration of Stay in Germany 52 B010 Language Proficiency 54 B017 Courses and Government Measures 63 B024 Help, support, and advice in Germany 73 b027 Employment 77 b028 Employment Prior to Immigration ....................... 77 b029 Current Employment Status .......................... 82 b030 Current Job .................................... 85 b027b State Benefits 91 b031 Normal Daily Life, Leisure Activities, and Contact with Acquaintances 98 b032 SOEP Educational and Employment Biography ................ 98 b033 Training and educational qualifications ..................... 101 b034 Workplace Training, Vocational Training Programs, Duration of Training, and Recognition ................................. 105 b041 Health and Illness 122 b042 Attitudes and Personality Characteristics, Locus of Control, Reciprocity, Self-esteem, and Risk Aversion 129 b043 Religion and Faith 138 b044 Worries and Concerns 140 b045 Expectations for School and Vocational Development in Germany 141 b046 Interest in Politics and in Political Parties in Country of Origin 144 b048 Assessment of Current Situation in Country of Origin 152 b049 Political Values and Role and Position of Women in Society 156 b050 Family in Germany and in Country of Origin, Plans for Family Members to Move to Germany, Financial Transfers to Relatives and Others Abroad 162 b050a General Life Satisfaction 174 SOEP Survey Papers 656 2 SOEP Core study Individual and Biography (M3/M4) 2016 b051 Numbers and Figures Test (Short Cognitive Test) 174 b052 Consent to Record Linkage 175 b053 Consent to App Installation 177 b054 Interviewer’s Assessment of How the Interview Went and Participation by Third Par- ties in the Interview 178 SOEP Survey Papers 656 3 SOEP Core study Individual and Biography (M3/M4) 2016 Reading Aid This representation of the questionnaire contains the same informations as the portal paneldata.org. 0ext question number Q72 Now we would like to know something about you personally. Were you born interviewer in Germany? instruction This refers to Germany or the Federal Republic of Germany or the German Democratic Re‐ public in the national borders at the time of your birth. answer Yes 1 options No 2 0: No answer -1 identi0 Q72;lsta1 bio l0013 born in Germany 0er 0en: 0: 0 filte00 Q72;LSTA1=2 0 condition Q73 What country were you born in? 0abel 0: Please enter the current name! 0 numeric Q73;lsta2 bio l0016 Country Of Birth answer Here, in addition to the question number, question text, interviewer instructions, and answer options, you find printed in green the file name and the variable name with the variable label, which contains information from the question. If you see rows of green lines below the answer option, the question- naire defines serveral variables or informations are stored in more than one data set. The routing by filters is depicted in blue. Each variable is preceded by an identifier (which generally contains the question number, marked here with a yellow dotted line), which is given, if the variable is used in filters in a subsequent question. Such filters are usually shown (as gatekeepers) at the beginning of the question. This reading aid does not cover a few exceptional cases: If the filter (as gatekeeper) only affects one of serveral variables for a question, the filter is printed in blue behind the variable. There you will also find a “go to” command in the form 2 @ Q73. Here, the questionnaire skips to question 73 if the variable results in value of 2. Phrases that are not alreday translated in English are displayed in German and preceded by [de]. SOEP Survey Papers 656 4 SOEP Core study Individual and Biography (M3/M4) 2016 About this Questionnaire The influx of refugees to Germany, which rose sharply in the second half of 2015, poses challenges for public policy, government administration, and the population at large. To effectively coordinate lodging and assistance for these refugees and to foster their long-term integration into the labor market, educational system, and other societal spheres, robust and reliable information is needed that can be generalized and applied usefully to the challenges at hand. It is up to the empirical social research to provide a data base for these purposes. To meet this need, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency, Re- search Centre on Migration, Integration, and Asylum of the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ), and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin are conducting a comprehensive stan- dardized survey of refugees in Germany based on a qualitative preliminary study. Participation in the survey is voluntary, and the survey is being conducted by specially trained interviewers from the survey institute commissioned to do the fieldwork, TNS Sozialforschung in Munich. Conceptualized as a lon- gitudinal study, the survey will be carried out in 2016, 2017, and 2018. In the first wave of the survey in 2016, the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Sample will cover nearly 2,000 adult refugees who arrived in Germany since 2013 seeking asylum. Questions about refugees’ living situations and the overall framework conditions The study looks at the living situations of refugees as well as their schooling, vocational training, and current occupational situations. It also collects information on refugees’ language use, living situa- tions, family situations, social participation, and contact with both Germans and people of their own ethnic backgrounds. Other focal points of the study, which is conducted using standardized survey instruments, are the impacts of the legal and institutional frameworks for refugees and the effective- ness of various support programs. Project Manager Herbert Brücker (IAB) Renate Leistner-Rocca (BAMF) Martin Kroh & Jürgen Schupp (SOEP) Survey Management Elisabeth Liebau (SOEP) Manuel Siegert (BAMF) Ehsan Vallizadeh (IAB) Survey Institute Axel Glemser (TNS Infrastest Sozialforschung, Munich) Andreas Stocker (TNS Infratest Sozialforschung, Munich) Survey Documentation Knut Wenzig (SOEP) SOEP Survey Papers 656 5 SOEP Core study Individual and Biography (M3/M4) 2016 B001 Living in Germany Survey for the life situation of asylum seekers in Germany 2016 SP1 Which language combination should be used for the interview? German / English 1 German / Arabic 2 German / Farsi 3 German / Pashtu 4 German / Urdu 5 German / Kurmanji 6 SP1:pspvers bgp pspvers Language Version SP1:pspvers bgp_refugees pspvers Language Version SP1:pspvers pl plk0031 Language Version 0 As already described in the brochure, we are asking you to take part in this survey. Participation in this survey is voluntary. If you take part and do not wish to answer certain questions for personal reasons, you can decide not to answer these que B002 Personal details PA01 No. household PA01:hnr bgp hhnrakt Current Wave HH Number (=BGHHNR) PA01:hnr bgp bghhnr Current Wave HH Number (=HHNRAKT) PA01:hnr bgp_refugees hhnrakt Current Wave HH Number (=BGHHNR) PA01:hnr bgp_refugees bghhnr Current Wave HH Number (=HHNRAKT) PA01:hnr biol hid Current Wave HH Number (=HHNRAKT) PA01:hnr pl hid Current Wave HH Number (=HHNRAKT) PA02 No. person PA02:pnr bgp bgpnr Person Number Surveyed PA02:pnr bgp_refugees bgpnr Person Number Surveyed PA02:pnr biol pnr Serial Person Number PA02:pnr pl pnr Person Number Surveyed
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