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The German Family Panel (pairfam)

Brüderl, Josef; Drobnič, Sonja; Hank, Karsten
GESIS, Cologne. ZA5678 Data file Version 14.2.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/pairfam.5678.14.2.0
Other Title (type): Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (Project Title)
Abstract: The German Family Panel pairfam is a multidisciplinary, longitudinal study on partnership and family dynamics in Germany, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The annually collected survey data from a nationwide random sample of more than 12,000 persons of the three birth cohorts 1971-73, 1981-83, 1991-93 and their partners, parents and children offer unique opportunities for the analysis of partner and intergenerational relationships as they develop over the course of multiple life phases. A comprehensive description of the conceptual framework and the design of the German Family P ... more
Content: 1.) Partnership formation and development: Expectations concerning partnership (positive, negative); Partnership biography since age 14 (sex and age of partners, partnership, cohabitation and marriage episodes by month); Getting to know each other (current partner); Institutionalization of partnership (plans, ambivalence, stages); Sexuality (first ... more
Topics: Family life and marriage | Children | Reproductive health | HEALTH | EDUCATION | SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 09.2008 - 04.2022
Date(s) of Data Collection: 09.2008 - 05.2009, 1st Wave | 10.2009 - 04.2010, 2nd Wave (Start DemoDiff sample of items from wave 1 of the pairfam survey) | 10.2010 - 04.2011, 3rd Wave | 10.2011 - 05.2012, 4th Wave | 10.2012 - 05.2013, 5th Wave | 10.2013 - 05.2014, 6th Wave | 10.2014 - 05.2015, 7th Wave | 10.2015 - 05.2016, 8th Wave | 10.2016 - 05.2017, 9th Wave | 10.2017 - 05. ... more
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE)
Universe: All German-speaking persons (irrespective of nationality) living in private households in Germany born within one of the following time periods Anchor persons in wave 1: • born between 01.01.1991 and 31.12.1993 (Cohort 1) • born between 01.01.1981 and 31.12.1983 (Cohort 2) • born between 01.01.1971 and 31.12.1973 (Cohort 3) Anchor refreshment ... more
Number of Units: - Welle 1: 18318 (12402 Anker pairfam + 1489 Anker DemoDiff + 3743 Partner pairfam + 684 Partner DemoDiff) - Welle 2: 19975 (9069 Anker pairfam + 1173 Anker DemoDiff + 2687 Partner + 5015 Eltern + 862 Kinder + 1169 Erziehung) - Welle 3: 18354 (9074 Anker + 2939 Partner + 3946 Eltern + 987 Kinder + 1408 Erziehung) - Welle 4: 16869 (8073 Anker + 2731 Partner + 3350 Eltern + 1084 Kinder + 1576 Erziehung + 50 Stepup Anker + 5 Stepup Partner) - Welle 5: 16825 (7248 Anker + 2529 Partner + 3546 Eltern + 1390 Kinder + 2022 Erziehung + 82 Stepup Anker + 8 Stepup Partner) - Welle 6: 15821 (6574 Anker + 2357 Partner + 3043 Eltern + 1450 Kinder + 2251 Erziehung + 136 Stepup Anker + 10 Stepup Partner) - Welle 7: 15340 (5919 Anker + 2170 Partner + 2719 Eltern + 1438 Kinder + 2889 Erziehung + 190 Stepup Anker + 15 Stepup Partner) - Welle 8: 12664 (5461 Anker + 2051 Partner + 627 Eltern + 1419 Kinder + 2847 Erziehung + 240 Stepup Anker + 19 Stepup Partner) - Welle 9: 12516 (5127 Anker + 1946 Partner + 1401 Kinder + 2919 Erziehung + 766 PAYA + 320 Stepup Anker + 37 Stepup Partner) - Welle 10: 11906 (4750 Anker + 1799 Partner + 1282 Kinder + 2721 Erziehung + 897 PAYA + 410 Stepup Anker + 47 Stepup Partner) - Welle 11: 18777 (9435 Anker + 2695 Partner + 1284 Kinder + 2955 Erziehung + 1031 PAYA + 841 Erziehung U6 Partner + 483 Stepup Anker + 50 Stepup Partner + 3 Stepup Erziehung U6 Partner) - Welle 12: 16511 (7630 Anker + 2418 Partner + 1146 Kinder + 2781 Erziehung + 1141 PAYA + 764 Erziehung U6 Partner + 567 Stepup Anker + 58 Stepup Partner + 6 Stepup Erziehung U6 Partner) - Welle 13: 16293 (7009 Anker + 2385 Partner + 1027 Kinder + 2915 Erziehung + 1429 PAYA + 834 Erziehung U6 Partner + 606 Stepup Anker + 80 Stepup Partner + 8 Stepup Erziehung U6 Partner) - Welle 14: 9179 (5401 Anker + 1740 Partner + 632 Kinder + 949 Erziehung + 403 Stepup Anker + 54 Stepup Partner)
Sampling Procedure: • Probability: Multistage; The German Family Panel pairfam is a panel survey of anchor persons with an implemented multi-actor design. The anchor´s partner and, from the second wave onwards, also the anchor´s (step-)parents and children of the age of 8 to 15 living in the household are additionally included in the survey in order to get a compreh ... more
Temporal Research Design: Longitudinal: Panel
Analysis Unit: Individual
Mode of Data Collection: Anchor Persons: Face-to-face interview with standardized questionnaire (CAPI and CASI for sensitive topics); incentive of 10€ cash per realized interview in waves 1 to 8. Since 9th wave 15€ cash incentive. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the survey mode was changed to computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) in late April 2020 (wave 12), with an ... more
Data Collector: Kantar Public (former TNS Infratest Sozialforschung)
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata (deutsch & englisch)
Kind of Data: Numeric
Number of Variables: - Welle 1: 3377 (1458 Anker pairfam + 1453 Anker DemoDiff + 233 Partner pairfam + 233 Partner DemoDiff) - Welle 2: 4761 (3895 Anker pairfam + 18 Anker DemoDiff + 274 Partner + 360 Eltern + 131 Kinder + 83 Erziehung) - Welle 3: 4986 (4292 Anker + 281 Partner + 216 Eltern + 150 Kinder + 47 Erziehung) - Welle 4: 9380 (4131 Anker + 265 Partner + 272 Eltern + 173 Kinder + 58 Erziehung + 4132 Stepup Anker + 83 Stepup Transition + 266 Stepup Partner) - Welle 5: 10694 (4742 Anker + 313 Partner + 243 Eltern + 189 Kinder + 74 Erziehung + 4743 Stepup Anker + 76 Stepup Transition + 314 Stepup Partner) - Welle 6: 10025 (4352 Anker + 291 Partner + 379 Eltern + 210 Kinder + 65 Erziehung + 4353 Stepup Anker + 83 Stepup Transition + 292 Stepup Partner) - Welle 7: 11495 (5047 Anker + 328 Partner + 260 Eltern + 222 Kinder + 103 Erziehung + 5118 Stepup Anker + 83 Stepup Transition + 329 Stepup Partner) - Welle 8: 10505 (4619 Anker + 46 CARI + 304 Partner + 111 Eltern + 252 Kinder + 74 Erziehung + 4711 Stepup Anker + 83 Stepup Transition + 305 Stepup Partner) - Welle 9: 11829 (5274 Anker + 329 Partner + 248 Kinder + 130 Erziehung + 98 PAYA + 5420 Stepup Anker (inkl. Transition) + 330 Stepup Partner) - Welle 10: 10521 (4668 Anker + 13 Anker-Vignetten + 284 Partner + 9 Partner-Vignetten + 263 Kinder + 66 Erziehung + 101 PAYA + 4832 Stepup Anker (inkl. Transition) + 285 Stepup Partner) - Welle 11: 17000 (7839 Anker + 15 Anker-Vignetten + 330 Partner + 255 Kinder + 99 Erziehung + 101 PAYA + 53 Erziehung U6 Partner + 7923 Stepup Anker (inkl. Transition) + 331 Stepup Partner + 54 Stepup Erziehung U6 Partner) - Welle 12: 13576 (6161 Anker + 17 Anker-Vignetten + 246 Partner + 298 Kinder + 66 Erziehung + 101 PAYA + 53 Erziehung U6 Partner + 6333 Stepup Anker (inkl. Transition) + 247 Stepup Partner + 54 Stepup Erziehung U6 Partner) - Welle 13: 13448 (6064 Anker + 295 Partner + 266 Kinder + 94 Erziehung + 101 PAYA + 53 Erziehung U6 Partner + 6225 Stepup Anker (inkl. Transition) + 296 Stepup Partner + 54 Stepup Erziehung U6 Partner) - Welle 14: 9596 (1928 Anker (CAPI) + 1924 Anker (CAWI) + 1422 Anker (PAPI) + 162 Partner + 275 Kinder (CAPI) + 270 Kinder (CATI) + 104 Erziehung + 1925 Stepup Anker (CAWI) + 1423 Stepup Anker (PAPI) + 163 Stepup Partner)
Notes: Survey unit: adults; parents; teenagers; students### The DemoDiff survey, carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, utilizes a largely identical set of instruments and supplements the pairfam data with an additional sample of eastern German anchor persons of the two birth cohorts 1971 to 1973 and 1981 to 1983 plu ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Brüderl, Josef - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Drobnič, Sonja - Universität Bremen | Hank, Karsten - Universität zu Köln | Neyer, Franz. J. - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena | Walper, Sabine - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Wolf, Christof - GESIS Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften | Alt, Philipp - Ludwig-Maximilians- ... more
Publication year: 2024
DOI: 10.4232/pairfam.5678.14.2.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.14.1.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.14.0.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.13.0.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.12.0.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.11.0.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.10.0.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.9.1.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.9.0.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.8.0.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.7.0.0 | 10.4232/pairfam.5678.6.0 ... more
Study number: ZA5678
Contributor, Institution, Role: GESIS - Distributor | GESIS - HostingInstitution
Publisher: GESIS
Research data center: FDZ pairfam
External links: pairfam research data center

Versions

Current Version: 14.2.0, 2024-05-31, https://doi.org/10.4232/pairfam.5678.14.2.0
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Reference publications

Publications: Brüderl, Josef; Castiglioni, Laura; Schumann, Nina (Hrsg.): Partnerschaft, Fertilität und intergenerationale Beziehungen - Ergebnisse der ersten Welle des Beziehungs- und Familienpanels. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag 2011 | Huinink, Johannes, Josef Brüderl, Bernhard Nauck, Sabine Walper, Laura Castiglioni und Michael Feldhaus: Panel Analysis of Intimate ... more
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The German Family Panel is a multidisciplinary, longitudinal study on partnership and family dynamics in Germany. The main study pairfam started in 2008 with a nationwide random sample of 12,402 anchor respondents from the birth cohorts 1971-73, 1981-83, and 1991-93. Starting in 2009, the complementary study DemoDiff realizes interviews among an ad ... more

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Brüderl, Josef, Drobnič, Sonja, Hank, Karsten, Neyer, Franz. J., Walper, Sabine, Wolf, Christof, Alt, Philipp, Bauer, Irina, Böhm, Simon, Borschel, Elisabeth, Bozoyan, Christiane, Christmann, Pablo, Edinger, Rüdiger, Eigenbrodt, Felicitas, Garrett, Madison, Geissler, Svenja, Gonzalez Avilés, Tita, Gröpler, Nicolai, Gummer, Tobias, . . . Wetzel, Martin (2024). The German Family Panel (pairfam). GESIS, Cologne. ZA5678 Data file Version 14.2.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/pairfam.5678.14.2.0.

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