TY - GEN
AU - Lang, Volker
AU - Kottwitz, Anita
TI - The Socio-demographic Structure of the First Wave of the TwinLife Panel Study: A Comparison with the Microcensus
KW - Familie
KW - Zwillingsforschung
KW - soziale Faktoren
KW - demographische Faktoren
KW - Bundesrepublik Deutschland
KW - Längsschnittuntersuchung
KW - soziale Ungleichheit
KW - Genetik
KW - Kinderzahl
KW - Twin Families
KW - Multiple-Child Families
KW - Family Demography
KW - Sampling Design
KW - Extended Twin Family Design
KW - TwinLife Panel Study (first wave)
KW - German Microcensus
PY - 2020
N2 - Veröffentlichungsversion
N2 - begutachtet (peer reviewed)
N2 - The TwinLife panel is the first longitudinal study of twin families in Germany based on a national probability sample. TwinLife has been developed to facilitate genetic sensitive research on social inequalities. The aim of this paper is to assess the usability of the TwinLife sample for such research. Therefore, first, we analyze if the social background of twins living in Germany is adequately represented in the TwinLife sample; and second, we also investigate if there are socio-demographic differences between twin and other multiplechild households in Germany which would restrict the generalizability of findings based on the TwinLife study. Specifically, we compare the distributions of key socio-demographic indicators in TwinLife with the German Microcensus using a proxy-twin and a multiplechild household sample. Our analyses show that the TwinLife sample covers the full distributions of core social inequality indicators including the lower and upper bounds, enabling researchers to use TwinLife for detailed studies of the gene-environment interplay. Furthermore, we demonstrate that (proxy-)twin and other multiple-child households in Germany are similar regarding most socio-demographic indicators. However, our analyses also indicate that participation in the first wave of the TwinLife panel was slightly selective with respect to parental education and German citizenship, especially in the younger cohorts of the study. We suggest a weighting scheme to address this selectivity.
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