The Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University and DIW Berlin will hold a workshop to introduce researchers to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF) on September 10–12, 2009. The purpose of the workshop is to introduce and familiarize new users with the file structure and potential of the SOEP and CNEF data. Current users will also benefit from sessions with highly trained researchers who will explain more subtle issues involved in analyses that use the SOEP sample of residents of the former East Germany.

Twenty-four waves of SOEP data are available to researchers interested in using this rich panel study. The CNEF currently includes data from six countries’ panel studies: the SOEP, the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the Swiss Household Panel Study (SHP), the Canadian Survey of Income and Labour Dynamics (SLID), the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (HILDA), and the United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Data from each of these studies have been extracted and manipulated to facilitate cross-national comparative research. The resulting subset of variables from each study constitutes the Cross-National Equivalent Files. For more information and to register, please visit (soon available): 

http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/PAM/Research/Centers-Programs/German-Panel/gsoep_event_info.cfm