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Programme of study: International Research Workshop
Lecturer: PD Dr. Elke Holst (DIW Berlin & University of Flensburg), Andrea Schäfer, SOCIUM/Universität Bremen)
Date: Monday, 26/09/16 – Wednesday, 28/09/16 from 14.30 – 18.00 h
Max. number of participants: 20
Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS
Language of instruction: English
Contents:
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. Every year, there were nearly 11,000 households, and about 30,000 persons sampled. The data provide information on all household members, consisting of Germans living in the Old and New German States, Foreigners, and recent Immigrants to Germany. The Panel was started in 1984. Some of the many topics include household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators. The course starts with an overview of the SOEP data structure and the research designs facilitated by longitudinal household studies that go beyond conventional surveys (household analysis, intergenerational analysis, life course research, etc.). The aim of the second part of this course is to give an introduction to the topic of survival analysis and use SOEP data to illustrate how to plot non-parametric estimates, test for differences between groups and how to fit a Cox’s semi-parametric proportional hazard model. General statistical concepts and methods in this course include e.g. types of censoring and truncation, survival and hazard functions, and semi-parametric proportional hazards model. Finally, we explore the motivation, strength and limits of Cox’s semi-parametric proportional hazard model.
Required: intermediate statistical knowledge, basic Stata skills
Recommended literature and pre-readings:
- John P. Haisken-DeNew & Joachim R. Frick (Eds.): DTC Desktop Companion to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Version 8.0 – Dec 2005, Updated to Wave 21 (U). This documentation is intended to give novice users a “jump start” in understanding the SOEP, its structure, depth, and research potential.
- SOEP-Homepage: Getting familiar with SOEP dataset and documents:http://www.diw.de/en/soep,
http://www.diw.de/en/diw_02.c.221180.en/research_data_center_soep.html - Allison, P. A. (2014): Event History and Survival Analysis. Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. SageCleves, M.; W. Gould, R. G. Gutierrez, and Y. V.
- Marchenko (2010): An Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata, (3nd ed), Stata Press.
- Sandra Gerstorf, Jürgen Schupp (Eds.) (2015): SOEP Wave Report 2015. Berlin: DIW Berlin/SOEP.
You have to register for the 10th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.