Version 10.0.0
doi:10.5157/NEPS:SC1:10.0.0
Here you find information on the former versions 9.1.1, 9.1.0, 9.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.0, 7.0.0, 6.0.0, 5.0.0, 4.0.0, 3.0.0, 2.0.0 and 1.0.0.
Date of Release
Summary
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The aim of this substudy run by the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) is to generate a longitudinal cohort starting with infants in their first year of life. Therefore families are visited in their homes from the first wave. Substantial, theory-driven surveys are conducted with the children (as target persons) and their parents as well as with persons in charge outside of the home (group manager of the day nursery or the Kindergarten, childminders; from wave 2). Those data will enable scientists to describe and analyze processes and courses of education as well as competence development.
The main research questions of this substudy of the NEPS include:
- How do children in early childhood develop early skills and abilities and in what ways are processes of development and education supported by settings of child care and education within and outside the family?
- How do intra-familial and extra-familial settings interact?
- From what age of the child do families make use of child care settings and education outside the family and to what extent does this depend on the development of the child and/or on the family background including the intra-familial learning environment, parental needs, and orientations?
- In addition, there is a special focus on families with migration background.
Principal Investigator
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Cordula Artelt, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg (Germany)
Citation
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Researchers working with data from the National Educational Panel Study are obliged to indicate the use of the data in their publications by citing the data version (DOI) as follows:
NEPS Network. (2022). National Educational Panel Study, Scientific Use File of Starting Cohort Newborns. Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SC1:10.0.0
In addition, the NEPS study is to be referred to at an appropriate place and the reference article to be listed in the bibliography:
This paper uses data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS; see Blossfeld & Roßbach, 2019). The NEPS is carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi, Germany) in cooperation with a nationwide network.
Blossfeld, H.-P. & Roßbach, H.-G. (Eds.). (2019). Education as a lifelong process: The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Edition ZfE (2nd ed.). Springer VS.
According to the NEPS data usage contract (§9), an immediate, unsolicited notification regarding every type of publication based on NEPS data is required to be sent to LIfBi via e-mail at fdz@lifbi.de. If possible, a link to or an electronic version of the publication is to be provided as part of this notification.
Availability
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Data and documents are released for academic research. This release is uniquely identified by one DOI. All data sets of this release are available in different languages (English, German), formats (Stata, SPSS), and degrees of anynomization (download, remote access, and on-site).
Documentation
Below you will find detailed additional information regarding the surveys, instruments and data from the Starting Cohort 1, Newborns. This documentation refers to the version 10.0.0. In case of questions, simply contact the Research Data Center.
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| Data Manual (more) |
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The data manual is intended to assist your work with the Scientific Use Files. The document will be made available to you in the near future.
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| Release Notes (more) |
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The release notes entail any main changes in comparison to prior versions. Herein, known bugs and possible solutions regarding the most current data version are noted.
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| Survey Instruments (more) |
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The survey instruments are made available to you in the form of SUF and field versions. The field versions consist of the originally deployed PAPI questionnaires as well as the programming templates for CATI and CAPI interviews. The SUF versions entail additional information, such as the variable names and labels found in the Scientific Use Files as well as the corresponding scheme options. We recommend the SUF version, when working with the data. The ZIP archive contains all of the documents listed below.
| Wave |
SUF Version |
Field Version |
| 1 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
| 2 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
| 3 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
| 4 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
| 5 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
| 6 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
| 7 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
| 8 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
| 9 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
| 10 |
PDF-de, PDF-en |
PDF-de |
In our Downloadcenter you can also view other survey instruments that don't yet have a published Scientific Use File. In order to access the instruments, logging in to the webstie is required. If you are not registered as a NEPS data user and therefore don't have the necessary login credentials, simply contact the Research Data Center.
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| Information on Competence Tests (more) |
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General overviews and information:
- Competence measures in Starting Cohorts 1 to 6 and variable naming conventions (PDF-en)
- Scaling model and notes on using data from competence tests (PDF-en)
- Linking the data of competence tests across different measurement occasions (PDF-en)
Wave-specific descriptions:
- Wave 1: PDF-de, PDF-en
- Wave 2: PDF-de, PDF-en
- Wave 3: PDF-de, PDF-en
- Wave 4: PDF-de, PDF-en
- Wave 5: PDF-de, PDF-en
- Wave 6: PDF-de, PDF-en
- Wave 7: PDF-de, PDF-en
- Wave 8: PDF-de, PDF-en
- Wave 9: PDF-de, PDF-en
- Wave 10: PDF-de, PDF-en
Usually for each domain there is a brief description of the construct with sample items, a description of the data, and of the psychometric properties of the test. In the table you will find each of the documents that can be downloaded. (The ZIP archive contains all of the documents listed below. Therein documents in regard to the competence domains as well as overview documents can be found.)
| Domains |
Constructs, test processes and sample items |
Data, psychometric properties and scaling |
| Domain-specific competences |
| Early Reading Competence (RX) |
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W9: PDF-en |
| Mathematical Competence (MA) |
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W5: PDF-en,
W5 update: PDF-en,
W7: PDF-en,
W7 update: PDF-en,
W9: PDF-en |
| Scientific Competence (SC) |
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W6: PDF-en ,
W8: PDF-en ,
W10: PDF-en |
| Stage-Specific Direct Measures |
| Habituation Paradigm |
W1 and W2: PDF-en,
W1 and W2 update: PDF-en |
| Parent-Child-Interaction |
based on data from wave 1: PDF-de,
based on data from waves 1 to 3: PDF-de |
| Sensomotoric Development |
PDF pending |
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| Semantic Data Structure File (more) |
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The semantic data structure file does not contain data. It does, however, contain the metadata found in the Scientific Use Files (e.g., variable names,variable labels and scheme options). It is useful for exploring the data structure without needing any actual data. The ZIP-File contains German and English versions for Stata and SPSS.
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| Codebook (more) |
PDF-de PDF-en |
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Sorted by data sets, the codebook entails frequency counts of all the variables including the corresponding labels. The on-site version of the SUF serves as the basis for the codebook.
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| Glossary (more) |
PDF-en |
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The NEPS Glossary provides information about special terminology related to the German educational and occupational system as well as the NEPS-specific terms and abbreviations that are frequently used throughout the NEPS study.
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| Samples, Weights, Nonresponse (more) |
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The NEPS Survey Paper No. 8 provides information on sample stratification and the principles of constructing weights for the waves 1 to 3 of the Scientific Use File: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 4: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 5: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 6: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 7: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 8: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 9: PDF-en
- Technical Report regarding the use of weights for wave 10: PDF-en
The NEPS Survey Paper No. 89 documents the relevant sample parameters for the Corona survey from May/June 2020, describes details on selectivity and presents the response propensity models for participation in this additional survey and the weighting procedure including post-stratification: PDF-en
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| Generated Variables on Education (more) |
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The report gives a comprehensive overview of the underlying derivation processes for the derived educational variables. These are ISCED-97, CASMIN and Years of Education.
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| Regional data (more) |
PDF-de PDF-en |
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Regional structural information can be merged to our data on-site. Regional data is available from Microm. This documentation describes all regional levels, structural characteristics, and how to use the data.
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| Merging Matrix (more) |
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The Merging Matrix provides an overview of how to link information from different datasets noting the respective relevant identificator variables.
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| Anonymization Procedures (more) |
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This document describes the used anonymization procedures of the respective data. Here you are also given an overview regarding the opportunity to access sensitive data (Download, Remote, On-Site).
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| Field Reports (more) |
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The field reports document the overall data-collection process executed by the survey institute, including the preparation and execution of the survey, the interviewer selection and deployment, tracking and providing incentives to the target persons, the initial contact and the realization of the interviews and tests, etc. The field reports are suppied by the respective survey institutes and are only available in German.
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