Objective 1 aims to advance the understanding and conceptualisation of family diversity in contemporary societies.
We focus on the measurement of living arrangements, family forms, and, more broadly, family diversity in surveys and administrative data. The objective plays a central role in coordinating and advancing data collection projects, including the monitoring of the Berlin Survey and the design and implementation of factorial surveys.
Research Questions:
- How are living arrangements, family forms, and family diversity conceptualised and operationalised in survey and register data?
- How do measures of family diversity differ across data sources and disciplinary traditions, and to what extent can they be harmonised?
- How can innovative data collection approaches, such as factorial surveys, improve the measurement and understanding of family diversity, including perceptions of family relationships and obligations?
