FReDA/pairfam Campus Use Files

FReDA/pairfam Campus Use Files (CUFs) provide a reduced data set of the FReDA and pairfam studies and are intended for teaching purposes only. Data users are advised not to use the FReDA/pairfam CUFs for scientific publications that are not intended for teaching purposes. Researchers who wish to use the FReDA and/or pairfam data for scientific publications should use the corresponding Scientific Use Files (SUFs).

The study programme FReDA – The German Family Demography Panel is a cooperative project of the German Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, and – as representatives of the pairfam consortium – the University of Cologne and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. FReDA is a longitudinal study on family and demography with an international perspective and a dyadic multi-actor design. As part of the international Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), the German Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) sample (FReDA-GGS) allows for comparisons with around 18 other European countries as well as five countries or territories in Asia and South America. From FReDA wave 2 onwards, the pairfam sample, which had existed in large part since 2008, was integrated into the FReDA panel as the FReDA-pairfam sample and will be followed with a joint FReDA survey instrument. The FReDA reference paper by Schneider et al. (2021) and the data brief by Hank et al. (2024) provide a comprehensive presentation of the methodological and conceptual foundations of the FReDA study. More information on FReDA can be found on the <a href=https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7777?lang=en target=_blank>FReDA study page </a> and on the <a href=https://www.freda-panel.de/FReDA/EN/Startseite.html target=_blank>FReDA website </a>.

The German Family Panel pairfam (“Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics”) is a multidisciplinary longitudinal study to research partnership and family living arrangements in Germany. It was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2004 to 2022 as a priority programme and long-term project. The base sample of the first survey wave in 2008/09 comprised 12,402 randomly selected persons born between 1971–73, 1981–83, and 1991–93. Interviews were conducted once a year until 2022. In wave 11, the 2001–03 birth cohort was added as part of a restocking and refreshment sample. The additional interviews with partners, parents, and children offer a unique potential for the analysis of partnership and intergenerational relationships in different phases of life. The pairfam reference paper by <a href=https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-235 target=_blank>Huinink et al. (2011) </a> provides a comprehensive presentation of the methodological and conceptual foundations of the relationship and family panel. More information on pairfam can be found on the <a href=https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5678?lang=en target=_blank>pairfam study page </a> and on the <a href=http://www.pairfam.de/ target=_blank>pairfam website </a>.

The data of the FReDA/pairfam CUFs are not restricted in terms of data access. In order to ensure easy access to these data, the FReDA/pairfam CUFs include only selected parts of the samples and variables contained in the SUFs of the two data projects. First, the FReDA/pairfam CUFs comprise a subsample of the respective FReDA and pairfam samples. In addition, the data of the FReDA/pairfam CUFs do not contain all samples available in the SUFs. For the FReDA/pairfam CUFs, we exclude the (FReDA)-pairfam step-up sample as well as all ex-partners. Second, certain variables from the SUFs are not included in the CUFs or are available only in aggregated form.