SPP 1646: Education as a Lifelong Process. Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

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In Germany, little is known about education as a lifelong process or about the cumulative and interactive impact of learning that occurs in multiple contexts over the life span. The new National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) in Germany provides unique, nationally representative longitudinal data on individual educational careers and competencies and how they unfold over the life course in relation to the family, educational institutions, workplaces and private life. The Priority Programme encompasses 17 research projects from six different disciplines that are devoted to one or more of the following research topics: (1) studying competence development over the life course, (2) utilising the NEPS database for other relevant substantive analyses, (3) combining NEPS data with additional national and/or international datasets and (4) dealing with methodological issues relevant to the NEPS. These projects are distributed throughout seven German universities and seven German research institutes. The Priority Programme is coordinated by Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dr. h.c. Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Prof. Dr. Sabine Weinert (both University of Bamberg). The first assessment waves of the NEPS were carried out in 2009/2010 (adult cohort) and 2010/2011 (kindergarten children at age four, children in secondary school at ages 10 and 15, and freshmen at the institutions of tertiary education). In 2013, a sample of infants (in their first year of life) will be added to the NEPS. These cohorts will be followed up by yearly sweeps. Data from the first wave of the NEPS was recently published as a scientific use file. While the main programme is approved for six years (since 1.1.2012), the individual projects will be implemented initially for three years and may be extended after three years as well as new projects will be included.