The German Family Panel (pairfam)

The German Family Panel pairfam is a multidisciplinary, longitudinal study on partnership and family dynamics in Germany, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The annually collected survey data from a nationwide random sample of more than 12,000 persons of the three birth cohorts 1971-73, 1981-83, 1991-93 and their partners, parents and children offer unique opportunities for the analysis of partner and intergenerational relationships as they develop over the course of multiple life phases. A comprehensive description of the conceptual framework and the design of the German Family Panel is given in the concept paper by Huinink et al. (2011). The data from the three waves of the supplemental DemoDiff study as well as data from the step-up respondents are also included in the Scientific Use File (SUF). DemoDiff is a parallel study of East German anchor respondents from the birth cohorts 1971-73 and 1981-83, as well as their partners, funded by the Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock. The first wave of the DemoDiff study began with a one-year delay after the pairfam study; the last DemoDiff wave coincided with the fourth pairfam wave. From Wave 5, the DemoDiff respondents were integrated into the pairfam sample. Step-up respondents are former respondents of the child survey that have turned 15 and now participate in the main anchor survey. These step-up respondents have been surveyed since Wave 4, their data saved in separate data sets. In Wave 11, the two youngest birth cohorts (1981-1983 and 1991-1993) were refreshed alongside a new sample from a younger birth cohort (2001-2003). In total, over 5,000 new respondents plus their partners and children were interviewed. The oldest birth cohort (1971-1973) was not refreshed. The question program for the refreshment sample is almost identical to that of the original sample. Some questions designed for repeat-participants were not posed, and refreshment sample respondents additionally answered questions posed to the original sample in previous waves. From Wave 12, the original sample and refreshment sample respondents receive identical question programs. The German Family Panel is a multi-subject study focusing on aspects of partnership and family dynamics. 1.) Partnership formation and development 2.) Transition to first and consecutive births 3.) Intergenerational relationships 4.) Parenting and child development In addition, the survey also touches on various issues from other life domains and demography. Most of the instruments are utilized either annually in each survey wave (core modules) or are rotated every two or every three years (extended modules). In the main survey, the anchor persons report - among other things - retrospectively on changes related to their partnerships, children, residences, and educational and occupational career since the last wave (Event History Calendar). The questionnaires for partners, parents, and children are similar to the main survey in terms of topics but differ in length and content. The more detailed variable lists comprise all variables with names and labels plus notes on changes between the waves. These lists are available online . The project "Dynamics of Implicit Motives in Intimate Relationships" was designed as a satellite project to the German Family Panel Pairfam https://www.pairfam.de/. The project surveyed the longitudinal interaction of partner-related explicit and implicit motive dispositions with relationship quality in German couple relationships over three years. The population comprises all pairfam anchor persons (and their partners) who a) are in a romantic relationship, b) are at least 18 years old and c) speak fluent German. The study was conducted online (CAWI) and ran from August 2016 to August 2019. Primary researchers of the satellite project are Birk Hagemeyer (University of Jena) and Felix D. Schönbrodt (LMU Munich).1.) Partnership formation and development: Expectations concerning partnership (positive, negative); Partnership biography since age 14 (sex and age of partners, partnership, cohabitation and marriage episodes by month); Getting to know each other (current partner); Institutionalization of partnership (plans, ambivalence, stages); Sexuality (first times, sexual orientation, frequency of sexual intercourse, sexual competence and communication, satisfaction with sex life); Activities with partner (leisure); Cohabitation (dwelling, distance between places of residence); Division of household chores (several activities, fairness); Finances in partnership (bank accounts, living expenses); Quality of partnership (dyadic coping, NRI, MITA, feelings of competence, future orientation, readiness to make sacrifices, reciprocity orientation, problems in partnership, hostile attributions, areas of conflicts, conflict styles and behavior, tolerance of conflicts, satisfaction with relationship, subjective instability of partnership); Module for singles (satisfaction with situation as single, interest in partnership, desire for partnership, characteristics of the partner market, subjective chances, broad and in-depth exploration); Separation module (course of separation, problems in partnership, effects on children, emotional distress after separation, exposure with separation, custody and alimony arrangements). 2.) Transition to first and consecutive births: Expectations concerning life with children (value of children); Pregnancy (existence of pregnancy, tried to sire a child/get pregnant, infertility, procreation/measures inducing pregnancy, abortion/miscarriage, hypothetical social support in case of pregnancy); Contraception (use, methods, consistency of use); Social influences on family planning (by friends and parents); Fertility plans (ideal and realistic number of children, intention to become parent, timing of parenthood, agreement with partner, willingness to cut back for children, effects of being parent, parenthood decision making, reasons against children); Preconditions for parenthood (assessment of actual and target state); Societal context (assessment, influences of family policy). 3.) Intergenerational relationships: Expectations concerning the relationship to parents (value of parents); Familial norms; Family and partnership related values; Quality of parent-child-relationship (NRI); Dimensions of intergenerational relationships (frequency of contact, emotional closeness, travel-time distance); Given and received support (emotional, material, instrumental); Nursing (need for care parents, care provider); Activities parents with children (leisure); Leaving parents’ home (age). 4.) Parenting and child development: Child rearing goals; Parenting styles; Parenting role (parental self-efficacy, autonomy, anxious overprotection, social support, readiness to make sacrifices, hostile attributions); Co-parenting (problems, problem solving, appreciation/support); Perception of parental parenting style (negative communication, MITA); Assessment of own childhood; Child care (responsible persons, satisfaction with child care situation); Behavior of children (SDQ); Health of children (specific and in general); Newborn and infant module (delivery, checkups, breastfeeding, temperament, sleep at night, crying behavior, unspecific strain). Other life domains: Personality (“Big Five”); Well-being (loneliness, self-worth, depressiveness, etc.); Health (general status, handicap, sleep at night, body height and weight); Importance of life domains (occupation, family, etc.); Satisfaction (with life, school/job, leisure activities, friends, family, financial situation); Network integration (number of friends, network generator); Leisure (several activities); Religiosity (religious denomination, frequency of church visits); work-life-balance, critical life events in social environment. Demography: Sex; Age; Marital status; Country of birth and nationality; Number of siblings and relatives; Education (education career, educational attainment); Employment biography (employment episodes, occupation, occupational status); Employment situation (work schedule arrangement, temporary employment contract, multiple jobs, conditions at workplace, commuting, maternity/paternity leave, military/civilian service); Income and benefits (current gross and net income per month, net household income, drawing of social benefits, alimony payment, income on investments, economic deprivation); Residential biography since age 18 (first move out of parents‘ home, places of residence in federal state and country, first and second place of residence, moves, type of current household, ownership of dwelling, total living space, number of rooms, monthly expenditures for dwelling, frequency of overnight stays); Household grid (number of further persons in the household and their sex, age, kind of relationship); Information about current partner (date of birth, country of birth and nationality, education, occupation, job position, children from earlier relationships, place of residence); Information about children (number, sex, date of birth, status, cohabitation, contact, second parent, health status, child care); Information about biological parents and stepparents (date of birth, whether still alive and - if applicable - date of death, country of birth and nationality, highest level of education and vocational training, marital status, relationship status, cohabitation, old and new partnership). Starting with Wave 7, the step-up Cohort was asked about their social media use (activities with social media, frequency of Internet use, reasons for use, negative online experiences, feelings towards others after online contact, Internet dependency, fear if missing out, group norms) and about their risk-taking behavior (and delinquency). The parents of the anchor persons are only interviewed up to wave 8. Due to considerably low response rates in the parents survey, this was redesigned as one-time grandparent survey in wave 8. Children of the anchor persons taking part in the child survey will be admitted to the panel as new anchor persons (step-ups) after their 16th birthday. Starting with wave 8, all respondents under 18 were asked about: emotional symptoms (emotion); conduct problems; prosocial behavior; hyperactivity; peer problems. Starting with Wave 9, a new PAPI instrument on Parenting Adolescents and Young Adults (PAYA) was introduced to survey anchors and their partners regarding their relationship with adolescent and young adult offspring. Until Wave 9, the assessment of parent-child relationships and parenting was restricted to children up to age 15. Furthermore, PAYA includes new indicators on parental autonomy support and conversely - helicopter parenting to address this recently debated issue. Within this instrument, quality of parent-child relations are measured (supplementing the already existing child-parent perspective from the Child Interview) and questions concerning parenting of adolescent children (e.g., helicopter parenting). Starting with wave 11, we introduced an additional parenting survey for partners to assess dyadic information on children under the age of 6 years as addressed by the module for babies and toddlers and the module for 3 to 5 year old children in the anchor survey. Questions include child behavior, temperament, night sleep, hostile attributions and parenting behavior. The pairfam COVID-19 survey is an additional online survey covering the COVID-19 situation. It was conducted between May and July 2020. As a study of family life in Germany, it is particularly well suited to capture the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in private lives and personal relationships. The survey lasted approximately 15 minutes and was conducted by Kantar Public. It was targeted towards all respondents of the pairfam panel, i.e. respondents who were part of the gross sample of wave 12 and had not refused participation. In total, 3,154 anchor persons participated. For more information: ZA5959 Das Beziehungs- und Familienpanel pairfam ist eine von der DFG finanzierte multidisziplinäre Längsschnittstudie zur Erforschung der partnerschaftlichen und familialen Lebensformen in Deutschland. Die jährlich erhobenen Befragungsdaten von über 12.000 bundesweit zufällig ausgewählten Personen der Geburtsjahrgänge 1971-73, 1981-83 und 1991-93 sowie von deren Partnern, Eltern und Kindern bieten ein weltweit einmaliges Analysepotenzial bezüglich der Entwicklung von Partnerschafts- und Generationenbeziehungen in unterschiedlichen Lebensphasen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der methodischen und konzeptionellen Grundlagen des Beziehungs- und Familienpanels bietet das pairfam-Referenzpapier von Huinink et al. (2011). Ebenfalls im Scientific-Use-File enthalten sind die Daten der drei Wellen der Zusatzstudie DemoDiff und die Daten der Stepup-Befragten. DemoDiff ist eine vom Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung in Rostock finanzierte parallele Befragung ostdeutscher Ankerpersonen der Kohorten 1971-73 und 1981-83 sowie deren jeweiliger Partner. Die erste DemoDiff-Erhebungswelle fand zeitverzögert ein Jahr nach dem Start von pairfam statt, die letzte DemoDiff-Welle zeitgleich mit der vierten Welle von pairfam. Mit Welle 5 wurden die Befragten von DemoDiff in die Stichprobe von pairfam übernommen. Stepup-Befragte sind ehemalige Teilnehmer an der Kinderbefragung, die über 15 Jahre alt sind und im Rahmen der Ankerpersonenbefragung weiterhin an pairfam teilnehmen. Die Stepups werden seit der vierten Welle befragt und sind in separaten Datensätzen abgelegt. In der 11. Welle wurden die beiden jüngeren Kohorten (1981-1983, 1991-1993) aufgestockt und eine neue Kohorte (2001-2003) implementiert. Insgesamt wurden über 5.000 neue Personen plus deren Partner und Kinder befragt. Die älteste Kohorte (1971-1973) wurde nicht aufgestockt. Das Frageprogramm der Aufstocker-Stichprobe gleicht zum größten Teil den Fragen der Originalstichprobe. Nur wenige Fragen, die für eine wiederholte Teilnahme konzipiert sind, wurden nicht gestellt. Zusätzlich beantwortete die Aufstocker-Stichprobe ein paar Fragen, welche der Originalstichprobe bereits in vorherigen Wellen gestellt wurden. Ab der 12. Welle gibt es keine Unterschiede mehr im Frageprogramm der Aufstocker-Stichprobe und der Originalstichprobe. Das Beziehungs- und Familienpanel ist eine Mehrthemenstudie mit Fokus auf partnerschafts- und familienrelevante Merkmale. 1.) Entwicklung und Gestaltung von Partnerschaften 2.) Familiengründung und -erweiterung 3.) Intergenerationale Beziehungen 4.) Erziehung und kindliche Entwicklung Zudem werden mit dem Frageprogramm zahlreiche Aspekte aus anderen Lebensbereichen und umfangreiche soziodemographische Informationen erfasst. Die meisten Instrumente kommen alljährlich (Kernmodule) oder rotierend alle zwei bis drei Befragungswellen (Vertiefungsmodule) zum Einsatz. Die Hauptbefragung wird mit den Ankerpersonen durchgeführt, unter anderem mit monatsgenauen Angaben zu Ereignissen in Bezug auf Partnerschaft, Kinder, Wohnen sowie Bildung und Erwerbstätigkeit (Event History Calendar). Das Befragungsprogramm für die Partner, Eltern und Kinder orientiert sich an der Haupterhebung, unterscheidet sich jedoch in Umfang und Inhalt. Die vollständige Auflistung aller Items inklusive Hinweisen auf Änderungen zwischen den Wellen kann den Variablenlisten entnommen werden. Diese Übersicht und die vollständigen Fragebögen sind abrufbar auf der pairfam Homepage unter Dokumentation. Das Projekt "Dynamics of Implicit Motives in Intimate Relationship" wurde als Satellitenprojekt zum Deutschen Familienpanel Pairfam https://www.pairfam.de/ konzipiert. Das Projekt untersuchte das längsschnittliche Zusammenspiel partnerbezogener expliziter und impliziter Motivdispositionen mit der Beziehungsqualität in deutschen Paarbeziehungen über drei Jahre. Die Grundgesamtheit umfasst alle pairfam Anker-Personen (und ihre Partner), die a) in einer Liebesbeziehung sind, b) mindestens 18 Jahre alt sind und c) fließend Deutsch sprechen. Die Studie wurde online (CAWI) durchgeführt und lief von August 2016 bis August 2019. Primärforscher des Satellitenprojekts sind Birk Hagemeyer (Universität Jena) und Felix D. Schönbrodt (LMU München).1.) Entwicklung und Gestaltung von Partnerschaften: Erwartungen an Partnerschaften (positiv, negativ); Partnerschaftsbiografie ab dem 14. Lebensjahr (Geschlecht und Alter der Partner, monatsgenaue Beziehungs-, Kohabitations- und Eheepisoden); Kennenlernen (aktueller Partner); Institutionalisierung der Partnerschaft (Intentionen, Ambivalenz, Fortschritte); Sexualität (erste Male, sexuelle Orientierung, Häufigkeit Geschlechtsverkehr, sexuelle Kompetenz und Kommunikation, Zufriedenheit mit Sexualleben); gemeinsame Aktivitäten mit Partner (Freizeit); Kohabitation (Wohnsituation, Wohnortentfernung); Arbeitsteilung im Haushalt (verschiedene Tätigkeiten, Fairness); gemeinsame Finanzen (Kontoführung, Ausgaben); Partnerschaftsqualität (dyadisches Coping, NRI, MITA, Kompetenzgefühle, Zukunftsorientierung, Opferbereitschaft, Reziprozitätsorientierung, beziehungswidrige Ereignisse, feindselige Attributionen, Konfliktbereiche, Konfliktstile, Konflikttoleranz, Konfliktverhalten, Beziehungszufriedenheit, subjektive Partnerschaftsinstabilität); Single-Modul (Zufriedenheit als Single, Partnerinteresse, Partnerwunsch, Merkmale des Partnermarkts, subjektive Chancen, Exploration in Breite und Tiefe); Trennungsmodul (Ablauf der Trennung, beziehungswidrige Ereignisse, Auswirkungen der Trennung auf Kinder, spezifische Emotionen heute, Umgang mit Trennung, Sorgerechts- und Unterhaltsregelung). 2.) Familiengründung und Familienerweiterung: Erwartungen an Kinder (Value of Children); Schwangerschaft (Bestehen einer Schwangerschaft, Zeugungsversuche, Fruchtbarkeit, Repromaßnahmen, Abbruch/Fehlgeburt, hypothetische Unterstützung durch soziales Umfeld); Empfängnisverhütung (Anwendung, Methode, Konsequenz der Verhütung); Einflüsse des sozialen Umfelds auf Familienplanung (durch Freunde und Eltern); Familienplanung (Kinderwunsch, realistische Kinderzahl, Fertilitätsabsichten, Timing von Elternschaft, Übereinstimmung mit Partner, Einschränkungsbereitschaft, Auswirkungen von Elternschaft, Entscheidungsfindung, Gründe gegen Kinder); Voraussetzungen für Kinder (Soll- und Ist-Bewertung); gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen (Bewertungen, familienpolitische Änderungen). 3.) Intergenerationale Beziehungen (IGB): Erwartungen an Beziehung zu Eltern; familiale Normen; partnerschafts- und familienbezogene Werte; Qualität der Eltern-Kind-Beziehung (NRI); IGB-Dimensionen (Kontakthäufigkeit, emotionale Nähe, Wohnentfernung); gegenseitige Unterstützungsleistungen (emotional, materiell, instrumentell); Pflegebedürftigkeit der Eltern (Hilfeleistung); gemeinsame Freizeit Eltern-Kinder (verschiedene Aktivitäten); Alter bei Auszug aus dem Elternhaus. 4.) Erziehung und kindliche Entwicklung: Erziehungsziele; Erziehungsstile; Elternrolle (Kompetenz, Autonomie, Überfürsorge, soziale Unterstützung, Opferbereitschaft, negative Attributionen); Coparenting (Probleme, Problemlösung, Unterstützung); eigene Erziehung durch Eltern (negative Kommunikation, MITA); Einschätzung der eigenen Kindheit; Betreuungssituation der Kinder (verantwortliche Personen, Zufriedenheit); Persönlichkeit der Kinder (SDQ); Gesundheit der Kinder (spezifisch, allgemein); Neugeborenen-/Kleinkinder-Modul (Entbindung, U-Untersuchungen, Stillverhalten, Temperament des Kindes, Nachtschlaf, Schreiverhalten, Belastungssituation). Andere Lebensbereiche: Persönlichkeitsmerkmale („Big Five“); Befindlichkeit (Einsamkeit, Selbstwertgefühl, Depressivität etc.); Gesundheit (allgemeiner Zustand, Erwerbsminderung, Nachtschlaf, Größe, Gewicht); Wichtigkeit von Lebensbereichen (Beruf, Familie etc.); allgemeine Lebenszufriedenheit und Zufriedenheit mit Schule/Beruf, Freizeitgestaltung, Freunden, Familie, finanzieller Situation; Netzwerkeinbindung (Anzahl der Freunde, Netzwerkgenerator); Freizeitgestaltung (verschiedene Aktivitäten); Religiosität (Glaubensgemeinschaft, Kirchgangshäufigkeit); Work-Life-Balance, kritische Lebensereignisse im sozialen Umfeld. Demographie: Geschlecht; Alter; Geburtsdatum; Familienstand; Geburtsland und Nationalität; Geschwister; Verwandte; Bildung (Schullaufbahn, Abschluss); Erwerbsbiographie (berufliche Tätigkeiten, Stellung); Erwerbssituation (Arbeitszeitregelung, Befristung, Mehrfachtätigkeiten, Bedingungen am Arbeitsplatz, Pendeln, Elternzeit bzw. Wehr- oder Ersatzdienst); Einkommen (eigener Brutto- und Nettomonatsverdienst, Haushaltsnettoeinkommen, Bezug staatlicher Transferzahlungen, Unterhalt, Vermögenseinkommen, Bewertung der finanziellen Situation); Wohnbiographie ab dem 18. Lebensjahr (erster Auszug aus Elternhaus, Wohnorte in Bundesland und Land, Erst- und Zweitwohnsitz, Umzüge, Art des Haushalts, Besitzverhältnisse (Wohnstatus), Wohnfläche, Zimmerzahl, Wohnkosten, Anzahl der Übernachtungen); Haushaltszusammensetzung (Anzahl weiterer Personen im Haushalt, Geschlecht, Alter, Beziehung); Angaben zum aktuellen Partner (Geburtsdatum, Geburtsland und Nationalität, Bildung, Tätigkeit, berufliche Stellung, Kinder aus früheren Beziehungen, Wohnort); Angaben zu Kindern (Anzahl, Geschlecht, Geburtsdatum, Kindschaftsverhältnis/Status, Zusammenleben, Kontakt, zweites Elternteil, Gesundheitszustand, Betreuung); Angaben zu leiblichen Eltern und Stiefeltern (Geburtsdatum, Lebensstatus, ggf. Sterbedatum, Geburtsland und Nationalität, höchster Schul- und Ausbildungsabschluss, Familienstand, Partnerschaftsstatus,

FReDA – The German Family Demography Panel Study

The study programme “FReDA – The German Family Demography Panel” is a cooperative project of the German Federal Institute for Population Research, 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 FReDA-GGS sample allows for comparisons with several other European countries. From wave 2 onwards, the pairfam sample, which was first recruited in 2008, will be integrated into the FReDA panel as the FReDA-pairfam sample and will be followed with a joint FReDA survey instrument. FReDA focuses thematically on family life and intimate relationships. The questionnaires for the first wave of FReDA have a modular design and comprise the following main topics: • Demography • Health, well-being, and personality • Work and income • Family planning and fertility • Couples’ relationships and partnerships • Parent–child and intergenerational relationships • Attitudes and values • COVID-19 pandemic For the recruitment of the FReDA-GGS sample, a probability-based sample of 108,256 anchor persons aged between 18 and 49 years and resident in Germany was drawn from the population registers of municipalities in Germany. The first FReDA wave, W1, was conducted in multiple subwaves consisting of the recruitment wave W1R and the two subwaves W1A and W1B. The interviews were conducted in a self-administered web-based (CAWI) or paper-based (PAPI) mode by the infas Institute for Applied Social Science. Data for the first FReDA wave were collected from April to June 2021 (W1R), July to September 2021 (W1A), and November 2021 to January 2022 (W1B). Additionally, data on anchor persons’ partners were collected from August to November 2021 (W1Apartner). A comprehensive overview of the methodological and conceptual principles of the FReDA study is provided in the FReDA reference paper by Schneider et al. (2021) .Recruitment subwave W1R: Value orientation and attitudes: traditional marriage concept (Unmarried cohabitation is permissible, marriage for life, divorce is permissible); traditional family (women need children to be fulfilled, men need children to be fulfilled, homosexual couple rights); gender role (pre-school child suffers if mother works, working mother can establish warm and secure relationship with child, women should care for family and less for career); intergenerational care values (parents provide financial help, children should care for parents, children should provide financial help for parents); gender values (better political leaders, for whom is a university education most important, for whom is having a job more important, for whom is housework and looking after children more important, better at caring for children). Corona: experience during the COVID-19 pandemic (personally heavily burdened, fear of falling ill, can also see the positive side, financial losses, difficulty restricting personal contact); assessment of political measures to fight the Corona virus (too much, just enough, too little). Demography: sex; sex according to register data; age; date of birth (month, year); current marital status; respondent has a partner; respondent has a partner for at least three months, living with partner; place first met current partner; satisfaction with the current romantic relationship; no children; number of biological children with current partner and with former partner; number of adopted children and of stepchildren; household size; highest school-leaving certificate; highest vocational qualification; years of education; education (ISCED-11); current situation; satisfaction with the actual employment situation; date school-leaving certificate reached (month, year); type of academic institution; date vocational education reached (month, year); degree of urbanization; currently living in eastern Germany; place of birth (federal state); country of birth; citizenships; language spoken at home; migration background: born in Germany; German citizenship; additional citizenship; date of immigration (month, year); financial situation of household (subjective); total household net income (last month, categories); internet connection; frequency of internet use; satisfaction with life as a whole. Additionally coded: respondent ID (anchor); subwave; sample (FReDA-GGS); interview date (day, month, year); mode; device used by respondent; total duration of web interview in seconds; contact strategy; number of mailings; interview assessment (the questionnaire was interesting, varied, important for research, long, difficult, too personal); panel consent; Flag variables: inconsistency with register data; partial interviews; unusually short interview duration; weight: design weight; design weight scaled to net sample size; start of survey field period; end of survey field period. Paradata: respondent ID (anchor); subwave; time and date of first access to questionnaire (absolute cumulated duration); time and date of last access to questionnaire (absolute cumulated duration); viewport width first page (in pixels); viewport height first page (in pixels); viewport width last page (in pixels); viewport height last page (in pixels); last page processed in questionnaire; number of interruptions; absolute cumulated duration for pages (milliseconds); soft prompt for page consent. Wave W1A: Employment: employment status; paid employment in the last week, full-time/part-time employment; hours worked per week, commuting between home and work (duration in hours and minutes); perceived stress during the last three months (too tired to do housework, difficulty meeting family obligations, too tired at work, difficulty concentrating because of family obligations, private conflicts affect performance); current situation; continuing education measures in the last twelve months. Information on children, ex-partners, and household members of the anchor in repeat loops. For respondents in paper-based mode, the number of loop variables is limited to four children, four ex-partners, and four household members. For respondents in web-based mode, the maximum number of blocks of loop variables is higher. Partner and partnership information: partner´s education: highest general education degree, highest vocational education degree, years of education; ISCED 2011; type of college/institution; current situation; paid job in the last week; hours worked per week; health restrictions in the last six months; country of birth; citizenships; country of birth Germany; German citizenship; other citizenship; federal state at birth; moved to Germany (month and year); duration of current partnership/ marriage in months; date of beginning relationship with current partner (month, year); married to current partner; date of marriage (month, year); registered civil partnership with current partner; date of registration of civil partnership (month, year); ever married to current partner(s); date of divorce from current partner (month, year); date of moving in with current partner (month, year), choice or circumstances of living apart; reason for living apart (anchor and partner; circumstances of living apart; distance from current partner´s home (duration in hours and minutes); number of days of face-to-face meetings and contacts with current partner(s) per week, month, or year; Intention to move in together in the next three years; intention to marry; intention to move in together and marry; frequency of disagreements about housework, money, leisure activities, relationship with friends, with parents, family planning, and child rearing issues; behavior in case of serious disagreements; serious thoughts about separation or divorce. Information on previous partnerships: Previous partnerships of at least three months duration; number of previous partnerships; number of cohabitations or marriages in previous partnerships; sex and age (date of birth month, year) of ex-partner; way of getting to know ex-partner; date of beginning of relationship (month, year); date of moving in together (month, year); married to ex-partner; date of marriage (month, year); type of end partnership (separation/death of partner); divorce from ex-partner), date of divorce (month, year); partner who filed for divorce. Information on children: child living, status of child; other natural parent of child; sex of child; date of birth (month year); date of death (month, year); child lives in same household; place of residence of child if not in same household; number of days per week, month, or year with care of child; number of overnights of child per week in respondent´s household; current situation; health limitations; general health; child has ever lived in the same household for more than three months; number of days per week, month, or year with face-to-face meetings with child; number of days per week, month, or year with other contact with child; distance to child´s other residence (duration in hours and minutes); satisfaction with relationship with child. Natural children with ex-partner; number of natural children with respective former partner; stepchildren with ex-partner; number of stepchildren with respective former partner; natural children of ex-partner; number of natural children with respective former partner; children with someone else; number of children with someone else. Pregnancies and family planning: current pregnancy of respondent or partner; other woman pregnant by respondent; expected date of birth (month, year); pregnancy with youngest child was planned; timing of pregnancy earlier/later than planned or just right; previous pregnancy was planned; timing of previous pregnancy earlier/later than planned or just right; problems getting pregnant for at least twelve months; purely physically able to have a child or to to conceive (anchor and partner); unable to have a child due to sterilization or surgery; diagnosis for infertility or not seen a doctor; time of attempt to become pregnant (month and year); type of fertility treatment; type of contraceptive methods used; sexual intercourse in the last four weeks; desire to have children in the next three years; general desire to have children; intended number of children; ideal number of children for respondent and in general; desired sex of first or next child; age at first menstruation or age at voice change; age at first sexual intercourse. Housing situation: number of rooms in the apartment or house; living space (in square meters); date of moving in (month and year); owner or tenant of the apartment or house; monthly cold rent (in euros); monthly incidental rental costs (in euros); satisfaction with the apartment or house; place of residence three years ago; reason for moving; intended move within Germany; intended move to another country. Household composition: other household members; number of other persons in the household; for the other household members was asked: relationship to this household member; sex; date of birth (month and year); current situation; satisfaction with the relationship to this person; health restrictions of this person in the last six months. Division of household chores between partners; satisfaction with division of chores; assessment of fairness of division of household chores; division of childcare chores; satisfaction with division of childcare chores; household decision-maker about routine household purchases, major household purchases, amount of time spent in own employment, and amount of time spent in partner´s employment; Organization of household income and expenses; length of time receiving Parental Benefit or Parental BenefitPlus for youngest child (in months, anchor, and partner); received regular child care assistance from acquaintances, friends, or relatives in the last 12 months; person providing child care assistance; number of days of child care assistance; payment of one of these persons; regular child care assistance from paid providers (e.g. B. child day care providers); type of child care services used; number of days per week, month, or year; monthly cost of child care; chore assistance from public or private providers; number of days per week, month, or year chore assistance is used; cost per week, month, or year of chore assistance; life satisfaction; self-assessment of health status; frequency of depression tendencies in the last week; net household income (in euros and categorized); assessment of the household´s financial situation; receipt of alimony in the last twelve months from a former partner; payment of alimony in the last twelve months to a former partner. Demography: sex; sex according to registry data; age; date of birth (month, year); age according to registry data; currently residing in East Germany; degree of urbanization; current marital status; current partnership status: same-sex partnership; current partnership status: relationship present; partnership for at least three months; living with partner; how did you meet current partner; satisfaction with current relationship; age and sex of partner; date of birth (month and year) of partner; number of all children, number of biological children, adopted children, and stepchildren born before the interview; number of all children still living, number of all children in the anchor´s household; age of youngest child, number of biological children, and number of adopted children with current partner; children of current partner with someone else and number of these children. Additionally coded were: ID anchor; wave data collection; identifier for sample membership; interview date (day, month, year); participation mode; terminal device; total duration of web interview in seconds; contact strategy; number of mailings; net equivalent income (GCEE); interview rating; consent to panel participation current partner; flag variables: Deviations from registry data, incomplete interviews, strikingly short interview duration, deviations from previous wave, missing information on children with (ex)partners, missing information on children (child loop); weighting factors; field start, field end. Wave W1B: Parents, origin, and childhood: birth mother still living, birth mother living in same household; birth father still living; birth father living in same household; distance to mother´s/father´s residence in hours and minutes; number of days of face-to-face meetings and contacts with mother and father per week, month, or year; satisfaction with relationship with birth mother/father; attachment to birth mother/father; asked for both parents: Age; country of birth; date of birth (month, year); date of death (month, year); country of birth Germany; federal state at birth; birth parents living in a common household; living with birth mother/father in a common household; ever lived apart from birth parents for at least 3 months; date of first separation from parents (month and year); intended change in living situation due to separation from parents in the next three years; parents were married; date of marriage (month and year); separation of parents; date of separation (month and year); siblings: Number of brothers and sisters; number of older siblings; year of birth of first child of birth mother and birth father; childhood in Germany; childhood abroad; federal state during childhood; lived with birth parents during childhood; lived with whom during childhood; quality of relationship between birth parents during childhood; ever lived abroad for more than three months during childhood; occupation (ISCO88) and occupational status of birth mother or of birth father at age 15; years of education of birth parents; highest general education degree (ISCED-11), highest vocational education degree; number of grandparents still living; number of birth children, adopted children, stepchildren, and foster children; grandchildren; number of grandchildren; date of birth of oldest grandchild (month and year). General well-being and health status: life satisfaction; regular need for care; type of health impairments or no diagnosis of health impairments; degree of limitations in activities of daily living in the last six months; limitations since when; infection with Corona virus since the beginning of the pandemic; body weight in kilograms; height in centimeters; happiness scale; loneliness (can rely on people for help with problems, feel general emptiness, miss people around me, can rely on many people, often feel rejected, feel close to people); contacts for important personal matters. Employment situation: current situation; satisfaction with employment status; date of beginning of current situation (month and year); paid employment in the last week; date of beginning of paid employment (month and year); employment full-time or part-time; hours worked per week; commuting between home and work (duration in hours and minutes); arrangement of work hours; flexibility in arrangement of work hours; frequency of working from home per week; frequency of working evenings or nights for at least two hours; workplace evenings or nights at home or elsewhere); frequency of working weekends; workplace weekends at home or elsewhere; probability of job loss; type of organization of current business (private or public); type of current employment contract; flexible work arrangements by employer; additional employment or business; hours worked per week for the additional employment; possible to return to work after maternity or parental leave; intention to return to work after end of maternity or parental leave; intention to take a job or start a business within the next three years; job or business immediately before current situation; previous job situation; previous job position; previous number of supervised employees; reason for leaving previous job; current or most recent occupation (ISCO-08); current or most recent occupational position. Partnership: steady relationship; date of birth of partner; relationship existed at the time of last interview; satisfaction with partner relationship; information on partner´s current employment and daily activities: Current situation; paid job in the last week; reason for leaving previous job; current job (ISCO-88); job position; number of supervised employees; hours worked per week; work schedule arrangement; frequency of working from home per week; frequency of working in the evening or at night for at least two hours; workplace at home or elsewhere in the evening or at night); frequency of working on weekends; working weekends at home or elsewhere; likelihood of job loss; organizational form of current business (private or public); type of current employment contract; flexible work arrangements by employer; additional employment or business; hours worked per week for the additional employment. Financial situation of the household: estimated current market value of owned real estate and land; real estate loan; outstanding amount for this loan; amount of the household´s monthly payments for real estate loans; subjective assessment of the household´s financial situation; ever received money, valuables or possessions worth more than 5. 000 euros; received these financial transfers from whom; year of last gift or inheritance; household financially in arrears in the last twelve months; types of household income in the last month; household net income (in euros and categories); expected development of financial situation in the next three years. Attitudes and values: general trust in people; planning for the future; value orientation and attitudes: Traditional concept of marriage (unmarried cohabitation is okay, marriage is lifelong union, divorce is okay); traditional family (women need children for fulfilling life, men need children for fulfilling life, equal rights for homosexual couples); gender role (preschool child suffers when mother works, loving and stable mother-child relationship when mother works, women should care about family and less about career); intergenerational values (parents should financially support adult children, children should take responsibility for their parents´ care, children should financially support their parents), gender roles (better political leadership, for whom is university education more important, for whom is a job more important, for whom is household and child care more important, better care for young children); experiment on ideal employment status and ideal weekly work hours of mother and father by age of child; religious community; frequency of participation in religious events per week, month, or year; religiosity; experience of Corona pandemic (personally heavily burdened, fear of contracting COVID-19, time also had good sides, financial losses, difficulty limiting personal contacts). Demography: sex; sex according to registry data; age; date of birth (month, year); age according to registry data; migration background; currently residing in eastern Germany; degree of urbanization; current partnership status: relationship present; satisfaction with current relationship; age of partner; number of all children, number of biological children, number of adopted children, and stepchildren born before interview. Additionally coded: ID anchor; wave data collection; identifier for sample membership; interview date (day, month, year); mode of participation; terminal device; total duration of Web interview in seconds; contact strategy; incentive experiment; experimental groups work by age