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There are open modules within the FReDA questionnaire: These are sections in the questionnaires whose content is not designed by those responsible for FReDA. This gives other researchers the opportunity to have their own questions included in the FReDA context. These can then be analyzed together with all other information from the fixed program. Calls for proposals for the open modules are issued regularly. The FReDA committees select suitable items from the submitted modules or individual questions in a multi-stage process.
For the fall survey of the fifth FReDA wave (W5B) in 2025, we would like to ask you to submit proposals for modules or individual questions now. The submission deadline for this is 31.05.2024.
A total of 3 minutes of survey time is available, which can be filled by one module or by several shorter submissions from different applicants. For more information, please refer to the call, which is also available in English. Please also refer to the documentation of waves 1 and 2 as well as the FReDA Style Guide. We look forward to your suggestions and would like to encourage you to forward this call to anyone who might be interested.
Short and sweet: the most important information about the Call for Modules.
In order to avoid overlaps with existing questions, we offer you the documentation of the questionnaires of the first wave in pdf format for download. However, it is important to know that the web-based mode was the main mode in our survey. The latest versions of the web-based questionnaires are stored in the FReDA DATA PORTAL and can be viewed there.
Paper questionnaire W1R Anchor
Paper questionnaire W1A Anchor
Paper questionnaire W1A Partner
Paper questionnaire W1B Anchor
Here you can download the style guide for the open modules.
The open modules are an integral part of FReDA's question program and are regularly advertised. This gives researchers who are not part of the FReDA project team the opportunity to submit their own questions in the FReDA context. These can then be analyzed together with all other information from the fixed questionnaire. A total of three minutes of questioning time is available for this, which can be filled either by one module or by several shorter submissions from different applicants.
As the FReDA questionnaire coincides with the GGS questionnaire every three years and no additions or deviations are possible for reasons of compatibility, no open modules can be integrated into the survey in every third year. In 2021 and 2022, we therefore gave the scientific community the opportunity to submit their own suggestions for modules or individual questions. In 2023, however, there was no call for reasons of compatibility with the GGS. In 2024 and 2025, there will be another opportunity to submit your own questions or modules.
We also called for proposals for modules or individual questions for the fall survey of the third FReDA wave (W3B) in 2023.
The following modules or questions were integrated and asked in the fall survey of the third FReDA wave (W3B):
If submitted proposals could not be considered in this survey wave, this is by no means due to the quality of the submitted modules, but to the limited survey time, which requires a selection.
In spring 2021, we issued the first call for open modules and gave researchers the opportunity to submit their own questions in the FReDA context. The submission deadline ended on June 30, 2021 - and the response to the call was very good: a total of 27 proposals were submitted. As we unfortunately only have around three minutes of survey time available for the W2B wave for the submissions, we had to make a selection from the proposals, all of which were very exciting.
The following modules will be integrated and asked in the fall module of the second FReDA wave (W2B) in 2022:
The newly added questions can then be linked and analysed together with all other information from the existing question catalogue.
FReDA releases the complete dataset from the first wave of the survey. We trace the process of data collection and summarize the most important facts and figures for you.
How are the data collected in FReDA? You can find detailed information on the study’s samples, contents and survey modes here.
Every three years, FReDA is part of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). This makes international comparative analyses possible.
FReDA continues the surveys of the pairfam study so that these cohorts can also continue to be analysed.
FReDA also asks the partners of all anchor persons to participate in the study. This makes dyadic analyses possible.
Beginning in 2022, the sample from the German Family Panel pairfam will be part of the FReDA study. The surveying of the pairfam cohort can continue.
Are you interested in using FReDA data in the classroom or to conduct research with the latest findings? Learn how you can request data access – you can find the contact address here.
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