*! Version 1.1.1 29jul2008
help soepdo

Title

soepdo -- Retrieval of SOEP drop-outs made easy

Syntax

soepdo [namelist] , soepdir() yperg() [erhebj()]

Description

soepdo is intended for people who need to build datasets which contain
drop-outs from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP Group, 2001). In the
current version only the retrieval of variables in YPBRUTTO is supported.

Where appropriate the options are named as the variables in
YPBRUTTO which are
used as criterium for inclusion of observation in your dataset.

Options

namelist is optional. One may specify variables from YPBRUTTO here which are than included in the new dataset. If no variables are given, all variables from
YPBRUTTO are included. PERSNR, ERHEBJ and YPERG are always included.

soepdir is mandatory. It tells soepdo the path to the directory
where SOEP files are stored.

yperg is manadatory. Here one specifies the reasons for drop-outs in
terms of YPERG (see Frick and Haisken-DeNew, 2005). If no integer is given,
no observations will be in your dataset.

erhebj is optional. Some drop-outs can occur multiple times per person,
e.g. moving abroad. By default, soepdo will keep all observations but
one may specify e(last) or e(first) to keep only the first or the
last drop-out in terms of ERHEBJ.

Author

Please send your suggestions and comments to:

Tim Stegmann

Institute for Work, Skills and Training(IAQ)

University of Duisburg-Essen

45117 Essen

Germany

E-Mail: tim.stegmann@uni-due.de

History

Version 1.1.1

- varlist is now namelist

- fixed some typos in help file

Disclaimer

This software comes "as is" without warrenty. Use at your own risk.

References

Haisken-DeNew, J. P. & Frick, J. R. (ed.)(2005): DTC. Desktop Companion to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Version 8. Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

SOEP Group (2001): The German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) after more than 15 years -- Overview. Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung, 70(1), 7-14