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Processes of Mate Choice in Online-Dating
Main subject of the project is the empirical exploration of Processes of Mate Choice in Online-Dating Services.
The focus of interest is laid on gender-specifc preferences and change of these preferences through the dynamics of the online mate-market, aspects of self-presentation of the users, the social structural composition of the dating population and the process of the online mate choice at the timeline.
TheGerman Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is a wide-ranging representative longitudinal study of private households, located at the German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin.
Every year, there were nearly 11,000 households, and more than 20,000 persons sampled by the feldwork organization TNS Infratest Sozialforschung.
The data provide information on all household members, consisting of Germans living in the Old and New German States, Foreigners, and recent Immigrants to Germany.
The Panel was started in 1984.
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