Highest educational level in SOEP survey

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Hello,

I am looking for a variable in the people module that represents the number of years of schooling or the highest level of education attained by the head of household. The variables I found in the “bmp” base for the year 2022 were: “bmp_08”; “bmp_09”; which asks who were attending school or some kind of educational training to the household members at that time of the survey.
I also found another variable:
“bmp_19” which is for those who completed some type of education in the previous year.
I appreciate your help in guiding me to search in this module or another one in which I can characterize the highest level of schooling attained by the head of household in SOEP 2022.

Thank you very much.

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The $$p.dta is questionnaire data from that year. You are looking for something that is generated. Generated data products are stored in the pgen.dta data. Variables that are of interest to you are isced which is an international educational classification of if you want to stay closer to the German system, you can also check casmin. You further need the stell variable from pbrutto.dta or ppath.dta to identify the household head.

We should also have years of schooling, but I do not recall the name. You will also find that in pgen.

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