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Design and Fielding of the pairfam panel

• Josef Brüderl, Laura Castiglioni, Ulrich Krieger,
  
• Volker Ludwig, Klaus Pforr
• MZES, University of Mannheim

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Contents

• Design
• Guiding Principles
• Field Report
• Time Schedule for Data Release

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Design of the pairfam study

• Sampling frame
• German resident population
• N12,000 anchors
• Multicohort sequence design
• (birth cohorts 1991-1993, 1981-1983, and
  1971-1973)?
• Interviewed alteri partners, parents, children
• Wavelength One Year (surveys conducted Oct.
  March)?
• Questionnaire development by pairfam group
• Fieldwork by TNS Infratest (Munich)?

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The pairfam Multi-Actor Design
wave 2 and following
wave 1
Partner
Partner
Anchor CAPI
Anchor CAPI
Children living with anchor 8-15 years
Up to 3  Parents
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Anchor Interview (I)?

• Target population
• German residents with sufficient language
  proficiency, birth cohorts 1991-93, 1981-83,
  1971-73
• Wave 1 Sample
• Population register sample
• 343 randomly selected German municipalities
  provided a total of 60,000 addresses with aim of
  12,000 interviews
• Wave 2 and following
• W2 only W1 participants
• Starting W3 W1 participants that did not miss
  more than one consecutive wave. Child survey
  participants older than 15 become anchor
  respondents

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Anchor Interview (II)?

• Survey Mode CAPI including CASI segments
• Duration Wave 1 60 minutes, Waves 2ff 70 minutes
• Incentives 10 cash upon completion of the
  interview

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Partner Survey

• Target current partner of anchor
• If the anchor is in a relationship, he / she is
  asked if the partner could be contacted as well.
• Survey Mode 24p PAPI-questionnaire
• Incentive 5 ticket to charity lottery
• Field procedures
• Questionnaire handed out by Interviewer, left
  behind with anchor or sent to partner
• Questionnaire can be collected by the interviewer
  or sent back with provided return envelope

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Child Survey (I)? - as of wave 2

• Target youngest child, 8 to 15 yrs. living with
  Anchor
• Biological, step, foster or adopted children
• Anchor has to give consent to the interview
• Wave 3 (and following)
• W2 target children if younger than 16
• Plus additional new children that now meet W2
  criteria (now 8 years old, now living with
  Anchor?
• Target children older than 15 enter Anchor survey

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Child Survey (II)?

• Survey mode CAPI
• Duration 15 minutes
• Incentive small gift (worth 5)?

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Parenting survey as of wave 2

• Target parents of child survey target children
  (defined as anchor and cohabiting partner)?
• One questionnaire for anchor and partner for each
  of the child survey respondents
• Survey Mode 6p PAPI questionnaire
• Incentive None
• Field Procedure
• Anchor handed out during CAPI Interview.
  Questionnaire can be collected by interviewer
  after the interview or sent back with return
  envelope
• Partner given to partner and back to Infratest
  together with partner questionnaire

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Parents Survey (I)? - as of wave 2

• Target biological (or adoptive) parents of
  anchor and their partners (step-parents)?
• If Anchor lived with adoptive parents before age
  6,
• adoptive parents are interviewed (instead of
  biological)?
• If more than three parents (contact to both
  biological and step-parents), stepmother will not
  be considered
• Consent of Anchor required
• Anchor has contact to parents?

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Parents Survey (II)?

• Survey Mode PAPI-questionnaire
• Duration 26 pages (approx. 18-20 minutes)?
• Incentives 5 ticket to charity lottery
• Field Procedures
• Questionnaires sent to parents (in separate
  envelopes)?
• Questionnaire to be returned with prepaid envelope

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Guiding Principles of pairfam Design (I)?

• Main Design Directive Keep Respondents in the
  panel
• Reducing burden
• Use of CASI
• No repetitive questions
• Tailoring questionnaire to individual respondent
• iLHC
• Increasing benefits from survey
• Incentives
• Interesting topics
• Conventional methods of panel care

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Guiding Principles of pairfam Design (II)?

• Reducing the burden
• Mode switch to CASI for delicate questions
• Dependent Interviewing (DI) known facts are fed
  forward
• Tailoring questionnaire to individual respondent
• Avoiding unnecessary questions with extensive
  routing in CAPI questionnaire
• IC-LHC (interactive continuous life history
  calendar)?
• Ease recall of life history with graphical
  calendar (and DI)?

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Guiding Principles of pairfam Design (III)?

• Increasing benefits from survey
• Incentives as a signal of appreciation
• Interesting topics
• Conventional Methods
• letters (side-effect panel-tracking)?
• respondent homepage
• interviewer continuity

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Preliminary Field Results - Wave 1

• Anchor
• (Final Response Rate currently unknown)?

• Partner

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Release of pairfam data Wave 1

• Dec 08 May 09
• Stata routines for data cleaning, preparation,
  anonymization, checks with preliminary data
• June 9, 2009
• Anchor data received from TNS Infratest
  (N12,408)?
• (Partner data expected by Aug. 15)?
• July 15, 2009
• Release of version 0 to pairfam team
• Oct 8/9, 2009
• 1. pairfam user conference release of version 1
  to all users
• Jan 31, 2010
• Release of version 2 to all users