Green-SÖP: The Socio-ecological Panel Survey: 2012–2016

Abstract

Evaluating environmental questions is a crucial issue in today’s economic research and policy making. The Green-SÖP offers a comprehensive data base to enrich an empirically led scientific discourse as a survey data set on environmental and energy-related topics in Germany. The data set on more than 6000 households was collected by RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and partners between 2012 and 2016. The questions are very diverse and range from personal attitudes to environmental policy issues with a special focus on the consequences of climate change and individual behaviors as well as opinions on ecologically related matters.

Exploring the variances of climate change opinions in Germany at a fine-grained local scale

“…Data on Climate change opinions (CCOs) was drawn from the Green Socio-Ecological Panel (Green SOEP), a nationally representative survey conducted between 2012 and 2015 by the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research [54][55][56][57][58][59] . The data set provides information on 12,612 households in total.…”

“…Descriptive statistics and data description of the independent variables of the generalised linear mixed model. The variables at household level are taken from the Green-SOEP [54][55][56][57][58][59] , the variables at regional level from the INKAR database (www.inkar.de) of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR).…”

“…We collect information on public CCOs from a representative household survey (Green Socio-Ecological Panel (Green SOEP)), conducted by the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research between 2012 and 2015 (including 4 waves) [54][55][56][57][58][59] . The Green SOEP provides detailed information on German households (n = 12,612), including their sociodemographic characteristics, geolocations, and opinions on climate change (see Supplementary Note 1).…”

Complexity and Learning Effects in Voluntary Climate Action: Evidence from a Field Experiment

“…The data underlying our analysis is drawn from the German Socio-Ecological Panel (Klick et al, 2021) operated by RWI -Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. The data originate from the wave that was fielded in spring 2021 and was gathered by the survey institute forsa.…”