Citation rules

Correctly referencing the use of data from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) is important for the research community and for demonstrating the scientific value of such a large-scale study.

Additionally, we ask that all publications using FReDA data include the following acknowledgement:

Refer to the study and the data version (currently release 4.1.0) by including the following (or a similar) phrase in your text:

This study uses FReDA panel data from the release v.4.1.0 (DOI: 0.4232/1.14398 | 10.4232/1.14195 | 10.4232/1.14080 | 10.4232/1.14065 | 10.4232/1.13745), Bujard et al. (2024). A detailed study description can be found in Schneider et al. (2021).

Add the respective bibliographic details to your list of references:

Bujard, Martin; Gummer, Tobias; Hank, Karsten; Neyer, Franz J.; Pollak, Reinhard; Schneider, Norbert F.; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wolf, Christof; Bauer, I.; Börlin, S.; Bretschi, D.; Brüggemann, K.; Christmann, P.; Edinger, R.; Eigenbrodt, F.; Firl, K.; Frembs, L.; Groß, K.; Hoherz, S.; Kunz, T.; Lück, D.; Naderi, R.; Naumann, E.; Nutz, T.; Oehrlein, A.; Ruckdeschel, K.; Schmid, L.; Schumann, A.; Schumann, N.; Stein, A.; Thönnissen, C.; Ullrich, E. (2024). FReDA – The German Family Demography Panel Study. GESIS, Cologne. ZA7777 Data file Version 4.1.0, https://dio.org/10.4232/1.14398

Schneider, N. F., Bujard, M., Wolf, C., Gummer, T., Hank, K., & Neyer, F. J. (2021). Family Research and Demographic Analysis (FReDA): Evolution, Framework, Objectives, and Design of “The German Family Demography Panel Study”. Comparative Population Studies, 46. https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2021-06