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Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics

A General Introduction

Meeting of the Advisory Board of pairfam in Bremen July 3rd, 2009


General Aim

Provision of data

to describe and explain individuals’ engagement in intimate relationships, family development, and parenting

as part of their pursuit of subjective wellbeing over the life course


Research Topics

(1) Couples’ Dynamics and Stability

(2) Timing, Spacing, and Stopping of Childbearing

(3) Intergenerational Relationships

(4) Parenting and Child Development


Conceptual Framework

Action Theoretic Approach“Production” of subjective wellbeing by pursuing “instrumental” goals – given external opportunities, individual resources, and psychosocial dispositions

Life Course ApproachMulti-level embeddedness, multi-dimensionality, path dependency of the process of welfare production


General Design Issues

Three age cohorts age groups 15-17, 25-27, 35-37, random sample drawn from population registers of 343 communities between Feb 2008 and Sep 2008

Anchor populationmembers of these cohorts living in private households with sufficient language ability to follow the interview



Annual panel wavesto be able to follow the dynamics sufficiently close and reliable and to cover the main research topics in sufficient detail

Multi-actor design collecting information from various actors: anchor, partner, parents, children aged 8 -16 years)

InstrumentsCAPI/CASI (anchor, children), PAPI (partners, parents)



Structural information and psychological / subjective data needed to model decision processes over time

Modularized questionnaires core modules for all main research topics (annually), regular rotating modules for the research topics (every second year), and extra modules covering changing research topics

Irregular supplementary studies on special topics applying quantitative and qualitative methods in later waves


Intimate Relationships

Core Modules

Wave 1

Rotating modules

Extra Modules

Fertility

Extension Module :Intim . Relationships

Intergenerational Relationships

Socio-economic Variables , etc

LHC Partnership

Wave 2 Wave 4Wave 3

Social Network

LHC Childhood

LHC Mobility

LHC Work Work -Life-Balance

LHC of the last year

Parenting

Parenting

Extension Module :Fertility

Extension Module :Interg . Relationships

Extension Module :Intim . Relationships

Social Network

Extension Module :Fertility

Extension Module :Interg . Relationships



Fertility


Parenting



Fertility


Parenting



Fertility


LHC of the last year LHC of the last year

LHC Fertility


Project Management

DirectorateProf. Dr. Johannes Huinink (University of Bremen, Speaker)Prof. Dr. Josef Brüderl (University of Mannheim)Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nauck (University of Chemnitz)Prof. Dr. Sabine Walper (University of Munich)

Survey-Manager: Dr. Laura Castiglioni (University of Mannheim)Dr. Michael Feldhaus (University of Bremen)


Project Management

Working Groups

Survey methodology (Mannheim): Prof. Dr. Josef Brüderl, Dr. Laura Castiglioni, Volker Ludwig, Ulrich Krieger, Klaus Pforr, Dr. Jette Schröder

Timing, Spacing and Stopping of Childbearing (Bremen): Dr. Petra Buhr, Prof. Dr. Johannes Huinink

Intergenerational relationships (Chemnitz): Dr. Daniela Klaus, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nauck, Dr. Anja Steinbach

Intimate relationships, parenting, and child development (Munich): Alexandra Langmeyer, Markus Schaer, Franziska Schmahl, Carolin Thönnissen, Prof. Dr. Sabine Walper, Dr. Verena Wendt


Project Management

Data Collection

TNS Infratest Social Research Institute (Munic)Ulrich Schneekloth, Dr. Jana Suckow

Funding

DFG-Priority Programme 1161 (“Beziehungs- und Familien-entwicklung”) until May 2010


Project Cooperation

Germany

• German scholars of Family Sociology and Psychology being members of the Priority Program 1161 of the DFG

• MPI for Demographic Research: Supplementary sample of 700 East German men and women to broaden the basis of East-West comparison

• “Cooperative structure” of German panel studies (GSOEP, SHARE, NEPS) to coordinate research in methods, data distribution and improve opportunities of complementary usage of the data of the various panels (to be established)


Project Cooperation

Europe and abroad

• NKPS, GGP, other Household Panels

• EFC, Longitudinal Study of Generations

• Cooperation on a personal basis


Where we are and next steps

Data collection of the first wave has been finished: N = 12408

Partner data expected end of July, N≈4,000

Distribution of first wave data in Oct 2009.

Pretest of the second wave taking place in Jul 2009.

Start of data collection of the second wave in Oct 2009.

Proposal for the “DFG-Langfristprogramm” to be submitted in Aug 2009.

Evaluation committee of the DFG will meet in Nov 2009.

Final decision by the Hauptausschuss of the DFG in Feb 2010.


Questions

Are the research topics set up in a proper way?

Do we miss important dimensions or categories of information? Do we need other kinds of data (bio-markers etc.)?

Do we need other procedures of data collection?

What are efficient models of division of labor in project and data management?

How shall we organize supplementary studies?

feldhaus/huinink, bremen, 03.07.2009 1 panel analysis of intimate relationships and family dynamics...

Documents

childbearing bremen

interview slide

child development slide

life course slide

main research topics

later waves slide

special topics

multiactor design