Pairfam

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Management: Josef Brüderl (speaker), Sonja Drobnič, Karsten Hank, Bernhard Nauck , Franz J. Neyer, Sabine Walper
Panel start: 2008
Running time: 14 years
Places: University of Bremen ,

LMU Munich , Friedrich Schiller University Jena , University of Cologne

Website: www.pairfam.de

Pairfam ( / peə (r) fam / , short for Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics ) is a representative , multidisciplinary longitudinal study to research partnership and family lifestyles in the Federal Republic of Germany.

history

The 14-year longitudinal study started in 2008 with an initial sample of around 12,400 nationwide randomly selected people born in 1971–73, 1981–83 and 1991–93. These so-called anchor persons are questioned repeatedly at annual intervals ( cohort sequence design). At the same time, the partners of the anchor people and, from the second wave of the survey, their parents or stepparents and children living in the household are included in the survey every year (multi-actor design). With this design, the pairfam project offers a worldwide unique potential for analyzing the development of couple and generational relationships in different phases of life.

Since May 2010 pairfam has been funded as a long-term project by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2010 pairfam was accredited as a new research data center (FDZ pairfam) of the Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD). The surveys are carried out by Kantar Public (Munich location).

Research goals

Pairfam's questionnaire consists of core modules to be surveyed annually and rotating specialization modules, the focus of which is on the characteristics of partnership development and creation, family formation and expansion, intergenerational relationships, parenting behavior and child development as well as social integration. The survey also covers numerous aspects from other areas of life such as leisure activities, employment, health, personality, religiosity and integration into social networks . Some features are only recorded once (extra modules). The survey programs for anchor persons, partners, (step) parents and children differ in scope and content, but are largely identical with regard to the thematic focus. The thematic modules recorded in the respective survey waves and the variables used for them are comprehensively documented in corresponding overviews and code books.

Organizational structure

The pairfam relationship and family panel is a cooperation project between the University of Bremen , the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the University of Cologne . Josef Brüderl (spokesman), Bernhard Nauck , Sabine Walper, Franz J. Neyer and Karsten Hank are responsible for leading the study . The project is advised and supported by an international advisory board . In addition, there is a cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock as part of the project "Demographic Differences in Life-Course Dynamics in Eastern and Western Germany" (DemoDiff) . The data of the East German additional sample (anchor persons and their partners) collected in the course of the DemoDiff project are contained in the pairfam's scientific use file .

Data access

The processed and anonymized data are available to the specialist public for scientific analyzes. At the current point in time (as of June 2019), the comprehensively documented Scientific Use File of the first ten survey waves (Release 10.0) for SPSS and Stata (each as a German and English version) as well as the data of the East German additional sample ( DemoDiff ) is available. At specially secured workplaces in the universities of Bremen, Munich, Cologne and Jena, there is access to a data set that has been expanded to include numerous small-scale regional indicators in order to carry out context-related analyzes. When using the pairfam data, the corresponding citation specifications must be taken into account. The pairfam user service is available for information on data acquisition and data usage.

Events

User conferences are held at regular intervals at which current findings are presented and discussed based on the pairfam data. In addition, workshops take place in which basic knowledge regarding the structure and handling of pairfam data as well as the evaluation of the data is imparted. Scientists from Germany and other countries come together at topic-specific specialist conferences to discuss new results and developments. Since 2013, scientific analyzes based on the data from the relationship and family panel have been recognized with prizes (Pairfam Awards) every two years. The prize money is donated by Kantar Public.

Further longitudinal studies in the field of relationship and family research (selection)

pairfam.de names the following studies as 'reference studies' under 'Links':

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Concept and design
  2. ↑ Main focus of content
  3. ↑ Documentation
  4. ↑ Organizational structure
  5. ↑ Data access
  6. ↑ Events
  7. ↑ http://www.dza.de/forschung/deas.html
  8. ↑ http://www.ggp-i.org/
  9. ↑ http://www.neps-data.de/
  10. ↑ http://www.bls.gov/nls
  11. ↑ http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh
  12. ↑ http://www.nkps.nl
  13. ↑ http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/22100
  14. ↑ http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid
  15. ↑ http://www.share-project.org/deutsch/
  16. ↑ http://www.diw.de/de/soep