1. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 1 Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics A General Introduction Meeting of the Advisory Board of pairfam in Bremen July 3 rd, 2009

2. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 2 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

3. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 3 Research Topics (1) Couples’ Dynamics and Stability (2) Timing, Spacing, and Stopping of Childbearing (3) Intergenerational Relationships (4) Parenting and Child Development

4. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 4 Conceptual Framework Action Theoretic Approach “Production” of subjective wellbeing by pursuing “instrumental” goals – given external opportunities, individual resources, and psychosocial dispositions Life Course Approach Multi-level embeddedness, multi-dimensionality, path dependency of the process of welfare production

5. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 5 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 population members of these cohorts living in private households with sufficient language ability to follow the interview

6. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 6 General Design Issues Annual panel waves to 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) Instruments CAPI/CASI (anchor, children), PAPI (partners, parents)

7. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 7 General Design Issues 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

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9. 9 Project Management Directorate Prof. 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)

10. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 10 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

11. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 11 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

12. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 12 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)

13. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 13 Project Cooperation Europe and abroad NKPS, GGP, other Household Panels EFC, Longitudinal Study of Generations Cooperation on a personal basis

14. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 14 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.

15. Feldhaus/Huinink, Bremen, 03.07.2009 15 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?