IHS Talk: C. Katharina Spieß (BIB & University Mainz)
FReDA - The German Family Demography Panel Study - A new panel study and new findings on work attitudes
Abstract
„FReDA - The German Family Demography Panel Study“ is a scientific study that addresses the issues of relationships and family life in Germany. For the study over 30.000 people, country-wide, between the ages of 18 and 49 were randomly selected, along with their partners. FReDA looks at the individual living situation of people: The life of singles, those in partnerships, or those in families with children. The focus of the study is on relationships and family life. The study examines how people in Germany live, how they organise their every day in a partnership, and how satisfied they are with their lives.
The presentation will provide an overview of the new FReDA dataset and showcase a research example—specifically, a study examining attitudes toward maternal and paternal employment. FReDA explicitly asks whether mothers and fathers should be in paid work, work part-time or full-time, presenting respondents with fictional family profiles that vary the youngest child’s age. Unlike previous studies, the analysis compares the views of respondents with different origins: West Germany, East Germany, immigrants from different world regions, and second-generation migrants in West Germany. The results highlight remarkable differences between respondents and offer a nuanced picture of attitudes towards maternal and paternal employment. The findings will be discussed in relation to labour markets participation in Germany.
Speaker
C. Katharina Spieß is Director of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and Professor for Population Economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Before, she held a Professorship for Family and Education Economics at Freie Universität Berlin and headed the Department of Education and Family at the DIW Berlin. Her research focuses on social policy issues, primarily in the area of family and education economics. Katharina is a member of various research networks, expert groups, and commissions, including the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Issues at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs and one of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research.
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