SOEP-Core v39 - HPATHL: Household-related meta-dataset

SOEP Group Research Report SOEP-Core v39 - HPATHL: Household-related meta-dataset SOEP Survey Papers, No. 1459 Provided in Cooperation with: German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) Suggested Citation: SOEP Group (2025) : SOEP-Core v39 - HPATHL: Household-related meta-dataset, SOEP Survey Papers, No. 1459, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), German SocioEconomic Panel (SOEP), Berlin This Version is available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316242 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. 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If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ 1459 2025 Series D – Variable Descriptions and Coding SOEP-Core v39 – HPATHL: HouseholdRelated Meta-Dataset SOEP Group Running since 1984, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is a wide-ranging representative longitudinal 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 Dr. Christian Hunkler, DIW Berlin Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch, DIW Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Dr. Levent Neyse, DIW Berlin and Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) Prof. Dr. Carsten Schröder, DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin Prof. Dr. Sabine Zinn, DIW Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Please cite this paper as follows: SOEP Group, 2025. SOEP-Core v39 – HPATHL: Household-Related Meta-Dataset. SOEP Survey Papers 1459: Series D – Variable Descriptions and Coding. Berlin: DIW Berlin/SOEP This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. © 2025 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 v39 – HPATHL: Household-Related Meta-Dataset SOEP Group 2025 The file hpathl is part of a collection, which is released with doi:10.5684/soep.core.v39o. SOEP-Core (v39) hpathl Contents 1 General Information 3 2 Primary Key, Foreign Keys and Sample Information 3 hid – Current Wave HH Number ........................... 3 syear – Survey Year ................................... 3 cid – Original Houshold Number, Case ID ...................... 4 hsample – Sample Member .............................. 4 3 Survey History 5 hnetto – Current survey status ............................. 5 hiyear – Interview Year ................................. 5 4 Basic Demographic Information 6 sampreg – Current sample region ........................... 6 hpop – Current sample membership ......................... 6 5 Weighting 7 hbleib – Inverse Staying Probability .......................... 7 hhrf – PRELIMINARY: Weighting factor ....................... 7 hhrf0 – PRELIMINARY: Weighting factor for new samples (wave 1 of new sample) 7 hhrf1 – PRELIMINARY: Weighting factor without new samples (wave 1) . . . . . 7 hrgroup – Random Groups .............................. 7 weighted – Reason the household has no weight ................... 8 complete – Indicator for a houshold being realized completely, partial, or has missing instruments ................................. 8 SOEP Survey Papers 1459 2 SOEP-Core (v39) hpathl 1 General Information The path datasets should be the building block of any analysis. Path Files indicate the total population at the household and individual level (over time) and provide all IDs necessary to access further files at different levels (Krause/Glass/Reher 2019a,b). Path-Files are delivered in three data formats – in long-format [H|P-PATHL] (as the most comprehensive version including weighting variables), in wide-format [H|P-PFAD] (the traditional version), and in a short-version [H|P-PATH] as a reduced population file (indicating the total of population of households and individuals) Household Level [HID|SYEAR] {Navigation File: H-PATHL (long-format)} Individual Level [PID|SYEAR] {Navigation File: P-PATH-L (long-format)} Household Level [HID] {Population File: H-PATH} Individual Level [PID] {Population File: P-PATH} Household Level [HID (HHNRAKT)] {Path File: HPFAD (wide-format)} Individual Level [PID (PERSNR)] {Path File: PPFAD (wide-format)}. The constituting SOEP population considers three levels – cases, households, and individuals. Due to the SOEP sampling and survey process, these levels follow an implicit hierarchy. All samples refer to primary source households – indicated by the household id at the time when the survey starts – the (fixed) Case ID [CID]. New Households may emerge from these original households during the longitudinal survey process by split-offs of family members – all (current) households are therefore indicated by a (variable) Household ID [HID]. IDs for individuals living in the households are derived from the households, where they were living when they were surveyed for the first time – the (fixed) Personal ID [PID]. 2 Primary Key, Foreign Keys and Sample Information hid – Current Wave HH Number The members and configuration of a household with a given ID (HID) can change between years. Depending on the respective research issue it may be necessary to check alterations using PPATHL, where persons are assigned to a household in each year. syear – Survey Year 1984 10363 1985 6142 1986 5878 1987 5512 1988 5403 1989 5213 1990 7270 1991 7335 1992 7359 1993 7334 1994 7431 1995 7717 1996 7529 1997 7423 1998 9403 ... (9 rows omitted) 131250 2008 12651 2009 16642 SOEP Survey Papers 1459 3 SOEP-Core (v39) hpathl 2010 21479 2011 25896 2012 22331 2013 31231 2014 19699 2015 28293 2016 43343 2017 28242 2018 29228 2019 45577 2020 57341 2021 22724 2022 71808 Survey year (Reference Year for survey instruments) cid – Original Houshold Number, Case ID Case Id - Household Source Identifier (fixed). The fixed household source id point to the first SOEP ancestor households to which current households can be traced back to. This variable is relevant for sampling information and calculating the weights. hsample – Sample Member 1A 1984 Initial Sample (West) 124057 2B 1984 Migration (until 1983, West) 32314 3C 1990 Initial Sample (East) 56513 4D 1994/5 Migration (1984-1994, West) 10074 5E 1998 Refreshment 13236 6F 2000 Refreshment 86857 7G 2002 High Income 21242 8H 2006 Refreshment 17552 9I 2009 Innovation Sample 6499 10 J 2011 Refreshment 33421 11 K 2012 Refreshment 15863 12 L1 2010 Birth Cohort (2007-2010) 21732 13 L2 2010 Family Type (Low-Income, Single-Parent, Large Families) 24212 14 L3 2011 Family Type (Single-Parent, Large Families) 9045 15 M1 IAB-SOEP 2013 Migration (1995-2011) 28822 ... (6 rows omitted) 90433 22 P 2019 Top-Shareholder 28489 23 Q 2019 Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual (LGB) persons 2250 24 M6 IAB-BAMF-SOEP 2020 Refugee 5245 25 M7 IAB-SOEP 2020 Migration 21236 26 M8 IAB-SOEP 2020 Migration Professionals 15111 27 R 2022 Refreshment 30197 28 M8b IAB-SOEP 2022 Refreshment 20647 -1 No Answer 0 -2 Does not apply 0 SOEP Survey Papers 1459 4 SOEP-Core (v39) hpathl -3 Answer improbable 0 -4 Inadmissible multiple response 0 -5 Not included in this version of the questionnaire 0 -6 Version of questionnaire with modified filtering 0 -7 Only available in less restricted edition 0 -8 Question this year not part of Survey program 0 Unchanging sample membership at first contact with SOEP (at the point of selection of the original household into the sample). 3 Survey History hnetto – Current survey status 1Successful HH Interview 449274 2HH In Brutto Only 84285 3unsuccessful, initial gross sample 181480 -1 No Answer 0 -2 Does not apply 0 -3 Answer improbable 8 -4 Inadmissible multiple response 0 -5 Not included in this version of the questionnaire 0 -6 Version of questionnaire with modified filtering 0 -7 Only available in less restricted edition 0 -8 Question this year not part of Survey program 0 Wave-specific survey status: for HNETTO=1 there is a HH interview in the respective year, i.e. an entry in the file HL. For HNETTO=2 there is only an entry in the file HBRUTTO, but the HH could not be interviewed (the reason for which is given by the variable HERGS in the file HBRUTTO).HNETTO=3 indicates unrealized Households of new samples in HBRUTTFiles. hiyear – Interview Year 1984 5921 1985 6109 1986 5838 1987 5472 1988 5365 1989 5171 1990 7225 1991 7275 1992 7264 1993 7226 1994 7373 1995 7498 1996 7447 SOEP Survey Papers 1459 5 SOEP-Core (v39) hpathl 1997 7391 1998 8330 ... (11 rows omitted) 143243 2010 17355 2011 19232 2012 19223 2013 20861 2014 19572 2015 19267 2016 21065 2017 22148 2018 24109 2019 24588 2020 23501 2021 14371 2022 23876 2023 1212 -2 200519 Interview Year (indicates household interviews realized also outside of standard SYEAR) 4 Basic Demographic Information sampreg – Current sample region 1West Germany 513077 2East Germany 128939 -1 No Answer 0 -2 Does not apply 73023 -3 Answer improbable 8 -4 Inadmissible multiple response 0 -5 Not included in this version of the questionnaire 0 -6 Version of questionnaire with modified filtering 0 -7 Only available in less restricted edition 0 -8 Question this year not part of Survey program 0 The variable SAMPREG tells whether a HH was located in West or East Germany in the respective year. This variable approximates also former regional differences within Berlin according to zip-codes. hpop – Current sample membership 1Private HH, German HH-Head 435450 2Private HH, Foreign HH-Head 82086 3Institutionalized HH, German HH-Head 3599 4Institutionalized HH, Foreign HH-Head 7380 -1 No Answer 0 SOEP Survey Papers 1459 6