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Third International FReDA User Conference
On 20 and 21 October 2025, the Third International FReDA User Conference will take place in Wiesbaden, and we invite you to present your analyses based on data from FReDA (and/or the Pairfam Relationship and Family Panel and/or the Generations and Gender Survey GGS).
FReDA/GGS Autumn School 2025
The FReDA/GGS Autumn School will take place again in September – a three-day workshop at Gutenberg University Mainz that provides a practical introduction to working with our data sets.
Restricted Use File (RUF)
For clearly specified research questions, it is possible, under certain conditions, to work with a sensitive FReDA data set at GESIS, which allows for additional analyses.
Refreshing the sample
In order to ensure that the survey is as representative as possible and to keep the number of interviews at a consistently high level, FReDA has refreshed the sample. To this end, the survey institute infas conducted a recruitment survey for us in autumn 2024. As a result, around 15,000 new participants have been added to our panel, and the anchor gross sample now comprises 35,999 cases. Wave 5A (anchor), including the new participants, has been in the field since 7 May 2025, and participation has been high so far.
People seeking protection from Ukraine in Germany
There are currently 1.1 million Ukrainians living in Germany who are seeking protection from Russia's war of aggression against their homeland. The study ‘People seeking protection from Ukraine in Germany (IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP survey)’ was launched in the summer of 2022 as a joint project of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), the Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to investigate the living situation of those seeking protection in Germany.
Since August 2022, more than 30,000 interviews have been conducted with Ukrainians who entered Germany between 24 February and early June 2022. The fifth survey is currently being conducted as part of this longitudinal survey, which takes place every six months. From autumn 2025, the sample will be surveyed again as part of the FReDA sub-study, so that this longitudinal study can be continued in the long term and compared with FReDA data for the entire population of Germany.
We are currently working on integrating the Ukraine survey into the FReDA project and synchronising the questionnaires accordingly. In future, the FReDA data set will also include data from the Ukraine survey.
New FReDA data version
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, our project partner responsible for conducting the surveys, data preparation, documentation and provision of data for FReDA, has updated the data version of our survey and published a new version. The new data package (version 4.1.0) contains the following studies, as did version 4.0.0 published in May:
If you are currently using FReDA data, please get the updated data! The new data version of FReDA can be found as usual via this link in the GESIS search. You can also download and read which data corrections have been made in an errata table.
Additional biopart syntax for pairfam wave 14
From mid-December, an additional Stata syntax will be available for all pairfam users, which supplements the generated ‘biopart’ dataset on partnership history with information from survey wave 14. So far, this additional dataset only includes waves 1-13. The syntax will be included in release 14.2 from mid-December in the data and syntax folder. If you are already using this release, you can informally request the extended version of the release from the GESIS data archive dataservices@gesis.org.
FReDA is stabilised FReDA has been permanent since 1 January 2025! Five years after its implementation, the project has thus overcome an important hurdle and offers researchers a long-term research perspective. The analyses and findings based on FReDA data also provide policymakers with important information for future decisions.
Second International FReDA User Conference The International FReDA User Conference on 7 & 8 October 2024 in Mannheim was a well-attended forum for researchers from a wide range of disciplines focusing on family and partnership issues.
FReDA Autumn School 2024 The three-day workshop at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz provided a practical introduction to working with FReDA datasets.
FReDA in teaching Would you like to use FReDA data in teaching or conduct research with the current findings? You are welcome to apply for data access - you can find the contact address here.
The FReDA data set is growing New data: FReDA publishes the complete data set of the second survey wave. We summarise the most important information and figures for you.
Publication of the data from the German GGS-II Data from Europe, Asia and Latin America: The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) provides researchers with a very broad, up-to-date database from around 20 countries and territories. FReDA collected the data for Germany.
On the trail of educational bias The low participation of people with a low level of education affects all social science surveys. A FReDA workshop focussed on the causes and strategies for reducing the education bias.
The FReDA Data Portal is online The freely accessible data portal allows you to explore the data structure of the panel study in more detail. Take a first look at FReDA for yourself!
Great interest in FReDA Autumn School 2023 A three-day workshop at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz provided FReDA with a detailed and practical introduction to working with the panel's datasets.
Nancy Faeser takes over patronage of FReDA For Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser, FReDA is "of great value both for science and for political action."
FReDA publishes the partner data from wave 1 Data from more than 7,200 anchor partners from Wave 1 are now available for scientific analysis free of charge.
pairfam publishes Data from W14 The data of the relationship and family panel pairfam are now available to the professional public free of charge as a scientific use file for scientific analyses.
"Panels have a future!" FReDA project leader Prof. Dr Martin Bujard discussed the "Future of Social Science Surveys and Panel Infrastructures" together with Prof. Dr Cordula Artelt, Prof. Dr Gert Wagner and Prof. Dr Christof Wolf.
First FReDA User Conference Under the title "3 Years of FReDA: Families and Partnerships in Germany and Europe", analyses will be presented form 3 to 5, 2023, which were predominantly developed with data from the FReDA panel.
A First Impression... To give you a first impression of our data, we would like to briefly present four simple evaluations as examples.
Very High Participation Rate in Wave 2b Around 30,000 interviews of anchor persons or their partners are available – this corresponds to a response rate of more than 80 per cent.
Study "Refugees from Ukraine in Germany" For the study "Refugees from Ukraine in Germany", questions from the FReDA sample were also used. The survey of more than 11,000 Ukrainians provides the first representative results.
"Families During the Pandemic: Pressures, Cohesion and Attitudes" FReDA reports on the impact of the pandemic on families and individuals in Germany.
FReDA Presents Its First Analyses FReDA examined the concerns of families during the Corona pandemic and today's challenges.
Call for Papers: First FReDA User Conference If you would like to present analyses using data from FReDA, pairfam, the GGS, or the project "Refugees from Ukraine in Germany" at the FReDA User Conference, please submit your paper. The call is open until November 25.
FReDA Is Also Attractive for (Family) Psychology Research At the 52nd Congress of the Germany Psychological Society, Detlev Lück and Franz J. Neyer presented FReDA.
Large Participation in Wave W2a Wave W2a is in the field - and has already received 22,300 fully completed interviews.
FReDA and the German GGS The international Generations and Gender Survey form the core of the FReDA panel study. However, Corona has required important adjustments.
FReDA Successfully Completes Wave W1b Strong response also to wave W1b: FReDA received more than 20,000 interviews.
Survey Led by GESIS Beginning in 2022 All tasks related to the FReDA survey process will be taken over by GESIS –Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
Strong Participation in the First Half of Wave 1 Wave 1A has ended and the FReDA project is pleased to have received nearly 22,000 interviews.
7th pairfam Interdisciplinary International Conference The final conference of the German Family Panel will take place in May 2022. Registration deadline ist April 1st, 2022.
Very Good Response Rate to Recruitment Wave More than 37,000 fully completed interviews have been returned to FReDA.
Generations and Gender Programme is part of the ESFRI roadmap The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) calls the GGP one of the best European research institutes.
FReDA Recruiting Wave Started People between the ages of 18 and 49 have been surveyed nationwide since April 2021.
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