Overview and getting started
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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
8. Workshops
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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
8. Workshops
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
GESIS data catalogue:
https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA6701
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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