About Data Access

The time has come: As of May 31, the data from the first and second FReDA waves will be available to the scientific community. The dataset contains the recruitment wave W1R as well as the sub-waves W1A, W1B, W2A and W2B. In addition, FReDA offers you the data from the surveys of the partners or ex-partners of the anchors (W1A partners, W2A partners and W2B partners).

The data are available to the research community for scientific and non-commercial purposes and are distributed by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Access is free of charge. The survey focuses on questions about family and partnership.

You are also welcome to use the FReDA Data Portal for an initial free search. This provides you with a simple and convenient overview of the data and content of FReDA.

If you are interested in using the data, you will need to sign a data use contract and verify that you belong to the scientific community. After the contract has been verified, GESIS will provide you with the data as scientific use files. The data can also be searched and retrieved via the GESIS search tool. If you have any questions regarding data access, please contact GESIS Data Services.

By the way: Students also have the opportunity to work with FReDA data, for example as part of their thesis. They can apply for data access via their advisor or professor. After they have concluded a user agreement with GESIS, they also receive data access to the anonymised dataset published for researchers.

For the published data from the FReDA surveys, you can find the corresponding documentation here.

Here you can download the data use contract.

If you have any questions regarding the content of the FReDA data, please contact our support team.