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  • Overview and getting started
    • Overview (Table of content)
    • Getting started
    • Data access & documentation
  • 1. About TwinLife
    • 1.1 Basic Concept
    • 1.2 Study Design and Sample Structure
    • 1.3 Where and how to get the Data
  • 2. Documentation of the study
    • 2.1 Data Documentation Website and ShortGuide
    • 2.2 Documentation within the Data Sets
    • 2.3 paneldata.org
    • 2.4 Codebooks
    • 2.5 Technical Report Series, Methodology Reports, and Working Paper Series
  • 3. Data Structure
    • 3.1 Data Formats and Data Files
    • 3.2 Person Types
    • 3.3 System of Variable Names
    • 3.4 ID Variables, Wave and Data Collection Identifiers
    • 3.5 Missing Types and their Meanings
    • 3.6 Delivered Para Data
    • 3.7 Weights
    • 3.8 Pecularities of Data
    • 3.9 How to match the Data Files
    • 3.10 Matching information from the parent-about-child questionnaire to the child's data set
  • 4. Check Routines
    • 4.1 Check routines
    • 4.2 Data Adjustment
  • 5. Generated Variables and Scales
    • 5.1 Generated Variables
    • 5.2 Generated Scales
  • 6. Publications and Citation
    • 6.1 Publications and Literature Database
    • 6.2 Citation
  • 7. Useful Links
  • Terms and Privacy
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  • Overview and getting started
    • Overview (Table of content)
    • Getting started
    • Data access & documentation
  • 1. About TwinLife
    • 1.1 Basic Concept
    • 1.2 Study Design and Sample Structure
    • 1.3 Where and how to get the Data
  • 2. Documentation of the study
    • 2.1 Data Documentation Website and ShortGuide
    • 2.2 Documentation within the Data Sets
    • 2.3 paneldata.org
    • 2.4 Codebooks
    • 2.5 Technical Report Series, Methodology Reports, and Working Paper Series
  • 3. Data Structure
    • 3.1 Data Formats and Data Files
    • 3.2 Person Types
    • 3.3 System of Variable Names
    • 3.4 ID Variables, Wave and Data Collection Identifiers
    • 3.5 Missing Types and their Meanings
    • 3.6 Delivered Para Data
    • 3.7 Weights
    • 3.8 Pecularities of Data
    • 3.9 How to match the Data Files
    • 3.10 Matching information from the parent-about-child questionnaire to the child's data set
  • 4. Check Routines
    • 4.1 Check routines
    • 4.2 Data Adjustment
  • 5. Generated Variables and Scales
    • 5.1 Generated Variables
    • 5.2 Generated Scales
  • 6. Publications and Citation
    • 6.1 Publications and Literature Database
    • 6.2 Citation
  • 7. Useful Links

7. Useful Links

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    • TwinLife Data Documentation:
      https://www.twin-life.de/documentation/
    • Download of all additional documents mentioned in the ShortGuide and on the documentation website:
      https://www.twin-life.de/documentation/downloads
    • Meta data documentation via paneldata.org:
      https://paneldata.org/twinlife
    • TwinLife reference paper (Hahn et al., 2016):
      https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/2906305
    • Technical Report on sampling design and socio-demographic structure of the first wave of the TwinLife (Lang & Kottwitz, 2017):
      https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2913250
    • Dataset citation:
      https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA6701 (version v4-0-0)
    • GESIS data catalogue:
      https://dbk.gesis.org/dbksearch/sdesc2.asp?no=6701&db=e&doi=10.4232/1.13208
    • Data Use Agreement:
      https://www.twin-life.de/documentation/images/TwinLife/Downloads/Data_Use_Agreement_TwinLife.pdf
    • TwinLife Technical Reports and TwinLife Working Paper Series:
      https://www.twin-life.de/twinlife-series
    • TwinLife Bibliography:
      https://www.twin-life.de/publikationen
    • TwinLife conference contributions:
      https://www.twin-life.de/konferenzbeitraege
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