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If you teach or conduct research in a social science subject or with social science methods, we would like to invite you to use data and findings from FReDA.
Teachers can request data access and sign a user contract with GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Once completed, you will receive full data access to the scientific use files.
Students also have the opportunity to work and research with FReDA data, for example as part of their final thesis. They can apply for data access via their lecturer. Once they have signed a user agreement with GESIS, they will also receive data access to the anonymised dataset published for researchers.
If you are interested in accessing the FReDA data, please contact: GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences E-mail: support.freda@gesis.org
FReDA offers lecturers an easily accessible exercise dataset especially for teaching purposes. This enables students to learn how to get started in research using real data from a high-quality panel. The FReDA Campus Use Files (CUFs) comprise the 14 waves of the pairfam sample as well as the previously published FReDA waves (W1 and W2). For reasons of data protection and to make the data more manageable, the CUFs only contain selected parts of the samples and variables of the original SUFs.
The Campus Use Files can be requested here.
However, the Campus Use Files are not intended for scientific publications. Researchers who wish to use the FReDA data or pairfam data for scientific publications should refer to the FReDA SUF data (Bujard et al. 2024), which can be requested via GESIS, the contact address can be found two paragraphs above.
"FReDA - The Family Demographic Panel" is organising the "FReDA Autumn School 2024" in cooperation with the research focus "Interdisciplinary Public Policy" (IPP) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The three-day workshop will take place from 30 September - 2 October 2024 in Mainz and is aimed at researchers who would like to work with FReDA data.
At the event, researchers from the FReDA project team will provide a practical introduction to working with the panel's datasets. Participants will also have the opportunity to work with the data themselves. The workshop is aimed at advanced Bachelor's and Master's students, doctoral candidates and postdocs with knowledge of Stata.
In addition to introductions to working with panel data, the FReDA questionnaires and methodological issues, hands-on sessions with FReDA data are also planned. Researchers from FReDA will be on hand throughout the workshop to answer any questions you may have.
A flyer with the preliminary programme of the Autumn School 2024 can be found here.
FReDA releases the complete dataset from the first wave of the survey. We trace the process of data collection and summarize the most important facts and figures for you.
How are the data collected in FReDA? You can find detailed information on the study’s samples, contents and survey modes here.
Numerous researchers took the opportunity to submit their own research questions or modules to FReDA, which will be included in the autumn survey of the fifth wave in 2025.
Every three years, FReDA is part of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). This makes international comparative analyses possible.
FReDA continues the surveys of the pairfam study so that these cohorts can also continue to be analysed.
FReDA also asks the partners of all anchor persons to participate in the study. This makes dyadic analyses possible.
Beginning in 2022, the sample from the German Family Panel pairfam will be part of the FReDA study. The surveying of the pairfam cohort can continue.
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