pairfam publishes Data from W14

The 14th wave of the pairfam relationship and family panel has been published. The data are now available to the public as a scientific use file for scientific analyses free of charge.

The data were collected between October 2021 and April 2022. The content focus is on the multi-layered processes of partnership development and formation, family formation and expansion, parenting behavior, child development, and intergenerational relationships. The question program also covers a variety of aspects from other areas of life.

The current release 14.0 includes:

• the completely processed and anonymized data of all 14 survey waves in the formats Stata and SPSS (each as German and English language version)
• the documentation with all codebooks (in German and English) and questionnaires as well as overviews of the instruments, the framework paper, the Data Manual and Scales Manual, the annual method reports and numerous other materials.

Pairfam is a DFG-funded multidisciplinary longitudinal study investigating partnership and family living arrangements in Germany. Since 2008, more than 12,000 randomly selected individuals nationwide, as well as their partners, parents, and children, have been surveyed for this purpose. The 14th wave, published as part of Release 14.0, marks the end of the independent pairfam study, but former pairfam participants will continue to be surveyed in the future as part of the FReDA samples.

Click here to go directly to the pairfam page of GESIS, where you can find - in addition to basic information on the study - accompanying documents for download and apply for data access.