TwinLife Technical Report Series

TwinLife Technical Reports are scientific contributions treating technical aspects of data presentation (e.g. data documentations, field reports, etc.) as well as methodical questions. As these articles still are in progress, possible commentaries and questions to the manuscripts should be addressed directly to the authors.

General Editors: Martin Diewald, Rainer Riemann and Frank M. Spinath

Documentation TwinLife Data: Filtering inconsistencies in discrimination items

Starr, A., Mattheus, S., Nikstat, A., Kaempfert, M., & Hufer, A. (2018). TwinLife Technical Report Series, 07. Project TwinLife Genetic and social causes of life chances (Bielefeld University / Saarland University). PUB | File

Documentation TwinLife Data: Height, Weight, and BMI

Lenau, F. & Hahn, E.(2017). TwinLife Technical Report Series, 06. Project TwinLife: Genetic and social causes of life chances (Bielefeld University / Saarland University). PUB | File

A longitudinal twin family study of the life course and individual development (TwinLife): Data collection and instruments of wave 1 face-to-face interviews

Brix, J., Pupeter, M., Rysina, A., Steinacker, G., Schneekloth, U., Baier, T., Gottschling, J., [...] & Spinath, F. (2017). TwinLife Technical Report Series, 05. Project TwinLife: Genetic and social causes of life chances (Bielefeld University / Saarland University). PUB | File

Documentation TwinLife Data: Report Cards

Mattheus, S., Starr, A., Kornadt, A., & Riemann, R. (2017). TwinLife Technical Report Series, 04.
Project TwinLife: Genetic and social causes of life chances (Bielefeld University / Saarland University). PUB | File

The sampling design and socio-demographic structure ot the first wave of the TwinLife panel study: a comparison with the Microcensus

Lang, V., & Kottwitz, A. (2017). TwinLife Technical Report Series, 03.
Project TwinLife: Genetic and social causes of life chances (Bielefeld University / Saarland University). PUB | File

Documentation TwinLife Data: Cognitive Abilities

Gottschling, J. (2017).  TwinLife Technical Report Series, 02.
Project TwinLife: Genetic and social causes of life chances (Bielefeld University / Saarland University). PUB | File

Documentation TwinLife Data: Zygosity

Lenau, F., & Hahn, E. (2017). TwinLife Technical Report Series, 01.
Project TwinLife: Genetic and social causes of life chances (Bielefeld University / Saarland University). PUB | File