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** NEPScomp - RELEASE NOTES
** Notes and Updates for Version 2.0.0
** (doi:10.5157/NEPScomp:SUF:2.0.0)
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General Notes:

	- Detailed information on the preparation and handling of the data is provided 
	  in the *Data Manual* on the website of NEPScomp.

	- Please report any problems or errors in the data at any time to the Research 
	  Data Center (FDZ-LIfBi: fdz@lifbi.de) -- Thank you very much!

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** Changes in Release Version 2.0.0
** compared to the previous release
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	- integration of survey data from NEPS Starting Cohort 8 (SUF 2.0.0)
	  => new: Waves 1 and 2
	  => the variables for procedural metacognition in the domains *Digital 
	     Competence*, *ICT*, *Russian*, and *Turkish* (proportion correct + 
	     difference score) were not transferred from the regular Scientific-
	     Use-File due to necessary corrections in the original data

	- update to the survey data from NEPS Starting Cohort 3 (SUF 13.1.0)

	- addition of survey data from NEPS Starting Cohort 4 (SUF 16.0.0)
	  => new: Wave 16 

	- addition of survey data from NEPS Starting Cohort 6 (SUF 17.0.0)
	  => new: Waves 16 and 17 

	- implementation of multiple variable assignment per starting cohort 
	  => new: when an item is assigned to multiple main topics, the 
	     corresponding variable is incorporated identically into the 
	     respective datasets