TwinLife Documentation TwinLife Documentation TwinLife Documentation
  • Overview and getting started
    • 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
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  • Overview and getting started
    • 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

Downloads

Here you can find all additional documents mentioned in the ShortGuide and on this documentation website.

Data Access

Data Access via gesis

Flyer_Data_Access_TwinLife.pdf

Documentation

TwinLife @ paneldata.org

ShortGuide

TwinLife_TR_11_v1-2-0.pdf

Codebooks

ZA6701_cod_wid1.pdf (F2F1)

ZA6701_cod_wid2.pdf (CATI1)

ZA6701_cod_wid3.pdf (F2F2)

ZA6701_cod_wid4.pdf (CATI2)

ZA6701_cod_wid5.pdf (F2F3)

ZA6701_cod_cov1.pdf (CoV1)

ZA6701_cod_cov2.pdf (CoV2)

Original Questionnaires

ZA6701_fb_f2f1.pdf

ZA6701_fb_cati1.pdf

ZA6701_fb_f2f2.pdf

ZA6701_fb_cati2.pdf

ZA6701_fb_f2f3.pdf

ZA6701_fb_cov1.pdf

ZA6701_fb_cov2.pdf

Changes Between Releases

ZA6701_changes_in_v2-0-0.pdf

ZA6701_changes_in_v2-1-0.pdf

ZA6701_changes_in_v3-0-0.pdf

ZA6701_changes_in_v4-0-0.pdf

ZA6701_changes_in_v4-1-0.pdf

ZA6701_changes_in_v5-0-0.pdf

ZA6701_changes_in_v6-0-0.pdf

ZA6701_changes_in_v6-1-0.pdf

Longitudinal Overview

ZA6701_longitudinal_overview_v6-1-0.xlsx

Scales Manual

TwinLife-ScalesManual_v2-2-1.pdf

TwinLife_Scales_Release_v6-0-0.sps

TwinLife_Scales_Release_v6-0-0.Rmd

Wave Specific Overviews

TwinLife-F2F1-overview.pdf

TwinLife-CATI1-overview.pdf

Methodology Reports

twinlife_tr_05.pdf (F2F1 & CATI1a)

twinlife_tr_09.pdf (CATI1b)

twinlife_tr_10.pdf (F2F2)

twinlife_tr_12.pdf (CATI2)

twinlife_tr_13.pdf (F2F3)

twinlife_tr_14.pdf (CATI3)

Data Use Agreement

Data_Use_Agreement_TwinLife.pdf

Data_Use_Agreement_TwinLife-briefinstruction.pdf

Supplement_TwinLife.pdf

Documentation of Generated Variables

mig2000_countrygroups.pdf

ISCO-08_coding_Infratest.pdf

Technical Reports

Click here for the Technical Reports

Example Syntax

example_syntax_ch_310_parents-about-child.txt

Information Brochure

TwinLife_Info_Brochure.pdf

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