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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
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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

6.2 Citation

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  • When preparing a publication based on TwinLife data, we kindly request you to mention our study in your publication. Please acknowledge our work by citing both the ➔ reference paper (Hahn et al., 2016) and the ➔ dataset itself (Diewald et al., 2019). Please keep in mind that the citation of the dataset may change as the study progresses and newer versions become available. To check the latest citation version, see the ➔ study’s entry in the GESIS data catalogue. Older versions of the data and the related DOI’s can be found there.

     

    Correct citation of the TwinLife reference paper (APA):

    Hahn, E., Gottschling, J., Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Spengler, M., Kornadt, A. E., ... & Spinath, F. M. (2016). What drives the development of social inequality over the life course? The German TwinLife Study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19(6), 659-672. doi:10.1017/thg.2016.76


    Correct citation of the dataset, version 6.0.0 (APA):

    Diewald, M., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., Spinath, F. M., Baier, T., Bartling, A., Baum, M. A., ... & Weigel, L. (2022). TwinLife. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6701 Data file Version 6.0.0. doi:10.4232/1.13932

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