SOEP — The German Socio-Economic Panel study at DIW Berlin 2015 Sandra Gerstorf, Jürgen Schupp (Editors) SOEP Wave Report Sandra Gerstorf, Jürgen Schupp (Editors) SOEP2015 Wave Report SOEP — The German Socio-Economic Panel study at DIW Berlin 2 SOEP Wave Report 2015 Contents | 3 Contents EDITORIAL .......................................................... 5 PART 3 A Selection of SOEP-Based DIW Economic Bulletin and PART 1 DIW Wochenbericht ............................................... 77 Overview of the Infrastructure SOEP at DIW Berlin ........................................................ 7 Political Culture Still Divided 25 Years After Reunification? ...................................................... 78 SOEP Mission & Vision .................................................. 8 Is Working on Weekends a Source of Dissatisfaction? ......... 90 SOEP Structure ........................................................... 11 Changes in the Demand for Culture in Germany ................ 96 SOEP Directorship and Management .............................. 12 Income Inequality Remains High in Germany: Division 1: Survey Methodology ..................................... 14 Young Singles and Career Entrants Increasingly Division 2: Data Operation and Research At Risk of Poverty .................................................108 Data Center (RDC) ................................................ 16 Significant Statistical Uncertainty over Share of Division 3: Applied Panel Analysis and High Net Worth Households ................................... 124 Knowledge Transfer ............................................... 18 Aircraft Noise in Berlin Affects Quality of Life Even SOEP Staff at DIW Berlin .............................................. 20 Outside the Airport ............................................... 136 PART 2 PART 4 SOEP Data and Fieldwork ................................... 23 SOEP Service Activities & Knowledge Transfer in 2015 ............................... 145 The Landscape of SOEP Studies ..................................... 24 Organization of SOEP Fieldwork by TNS Infratest .............. 26 SOEP in the Media .................................................... 146 An Overview of the SOEP Samples Citizens’ Dialogue with Chancellor Angela Merkel ........... 147 Fieldwork Report from TNS Infratest ............................ 28 Celebrating DIW Berlin’s Ninetieth Anniversary .............. 148 The SOEP Screening Samples SOEP at the European Survey Research Association ......... 149 Fieldwork Report from TNS Infratest ............................ 37 SOEP Service The SOEP Migration Survey SOEPcampus 2015 ................................................ 150 Report from the SOEP .............................................. 41 SOEP-in-Residence 2015 ......................................... 150 Fieldwork Report from TNS Infratest ............................ 44 SOEP User Survey 2015 .......................................... 151 The SOEP-Innovation Sample SOEP Staff & Community News ................................... 154 Report from the SOEP .............................................. 53 SOEPPeople Video Series ............................................. 158 Fieldwork Report from TNS Infratest ............................ 56 Elke Holst ........................................................... 159 The Bonn Intervention Panel: A SOEP-Related Study ........... 65 Thorsten Schneider ............................................... 160 Fieldwork Report from TNS Infratest ............................ 69 Matthias Pollmann-Schult ....................................... 161 The New SOEP Metadata Documentation System: SOEP Glossary .......................................................... 162 Paneldata.org ....................................................... 71 Report from the SOEP Research Data Center .................... 73 PART 5 SOEP-Based Publications in 2015 ..................... 169 SOEP-Based SSCI Publications over the Last Decade ......... 170 (S)SCI Publications by the SOEP Staff ........................... 171 (S)SCI Publications by the SOEP User Community ........... 173 SOEPpapers ............................................................. 181 SOEP Survey Papers .................................................. 185 IMPRINT ........................................................... 188 SOEP Wave Report 2015 4 SOEP Wave Report 2015 Editorial | 5 Editorial Jürgen Schupp Director of the Research Infrastructure SOEP Professor of Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin We are pleased to present the sixth Wave Report of discuss what “living well” in Germany means to the SOEP longitudinal study, offering a glimpse of them. On the subject of health, several participants our work over the last year. In 2015, we interviewed expressed the desire to see the distinction between our respondents in West Germany for the 32nd wave public and private health insurance eliminated. One of the study and distributed a total of 31 waves of university student pursuing a degree in education SOEP data to over 500 users worldwide, providing called for a change in adoption legislation. And a faster and more efficient data access and eliminat- young woman from the region of Franken wanted ing shipping and handling costs by allowing users to more funding for her hometown so that town resi- download the encrypted data from our secure server. dents would not have to pay for a new fire depart- ment vehicle themselves. The dialogue gave SOEP In the last year, the central focus of our work has respondents a unique opportunity to express their remained on SOEP-Core. We use this term to refer desires, but also their concerns and criticisms, to to the original SOEP study, including all of the sub- the highest ranking political decision maker in the samples and refresher samples that have been added country. And what it signifies for SOEP research is over the years. When the study was launched in 1984, also significant: It reflects the expansion of stan- its aim was to provide a representative picture of all dardized, quantitatively oriented survey research in private households in Germany from both a cross- the direction of qualitative, mixed methods research. sectional and longitudinal perspective, and this is And in June 2015, DIW Berlin celebrated its 90th an- still the aim of SOEP-Core today. At the same time, niversary. The theme of the festivities was the 25th some of the more recent studies to join the SOEP anniversary of the introduction of the Germany’s “family” (see part 2) are of growing importance to economic, monetary, and social union in 1990. For our data users, and are therefore another crucial the SOEP, June 1990 marked the start of Sample C area of our work. in East Germany. One of the important developments in 2015 has been This Wave Report contains reports on migration the growing importance of the SOEP in migration re- research, on the Citizens’ Dialogue with Angela search (see pp. 44). In December 2015, shortly before Merkel, and on other innovative research work cur- Christmas, the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Migration Sample rently being done with the SOEP data, as well as was launched. In it, we ask: What kind of qualifica- an overview of the fieldwork conducted by TNS tions are refugees bringing with them to Germany? Infratest. You’ll also find the complete texts of sever- How quickly can they be integrated into the German al recent DIW Wochenberichte, published in English labor market? Do they want to return to their home in the DIW Economic Bulletin, reflecting the wide country? With the data from this study and a new set range of SOEP-based research on subjects ranging of questions in SOEP-Core about Germans’ attitudes the development of political culture in Germany over towards refugees, we will be able to offer answers the 25 years since reunification to the effects of air- to these and related questions that have been domi- craft noise on Berlin residents. The publication list nating the political debate in Germany since 2015. is a compilation of the most important SOEP-based papers published in the last year. The SOEP has been in the public spotlight on sev- eral occasions over the last year, but perhaps most prominently when around 60 randomly selected SOEP respondents met with Chancellor Angela Merkel for a town hall style Citizens’ Dialogue to SOEP Wave Report 2015 6 2015 SOEP Wave Report 2015 Part 1: Overview of the Infrastructure SOEP at DIW Berlin | 7 PART 1 Overview of the SOEP Research Infrastructure at DIW Berlin 2015 SOEP Wave Report 2015 8 | PArt 1: Overview of the Infrastructure SOEP at DIW Berlin SOEP Mission & Vision The SOEP adopted a new mission and vision state- Cornerstones of our work ment in 2015 after receiving feedback and improve- ments from the SOEP Survey Committee. The SOEP data are provided in user-friendly form to researchers in a wide range of disciplines: the so- cial and behavioral sciences, including economics, Our Mission sociology, demography, psychology, public health, political science, and contemporary history, but also The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is an the life sciences (in particular genetics) and medi- independent, non-partisan research-driven infra- cine. The data from the SOEP and Related Studies structure unit that serves the international scien- are made available through an innovative metadata tific community by providing nationally representa- portal designed to international standards using tive longitudinal data (the SOEP study) and related open-source