Project GUIDEPREP

Growing Up in Digital Europe Preparation Phase

The European project ‘Growing Up in Digital Europe’ (GUIDE) analyses the success factors for the development of well-being in a digital world. The study will be the first comparative birth cohort study in Europe on the well-being of children and adolescents. Over a period of about 25 years, two birth cohorts (infants and schoolchildren) and their parents will be systematically surveyed. Each Member State will provide nationally representative samples. An ex-ante harmonisation of the data will allow comparative European analyses. The German branch of GUIDE involves the German Youth Institute (DJI), the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (UOL). The upstream project GUIDEPREP (‘GUIDE Preparatory Phase’) will develop the necessary research infrastructure for the GUIDE panel between 2022 and 2026. This includes defining the necessary operational procedures and developing the study concept and design. It will also prepare for the piloting of GUIDE in 2026 and the first full wave of data collection in 2027. The DJI participates in the management team together with the BiB and leads the work on panel data comparability strategies and, together with the Institut National D’Etudes Demographiques (France), on the GUIDE sampling and recruitment strategy.

Selected Publications

Düval, S. (2023). Do men and women really have different gender role attitudes? Experimental insight on gender-specific attitudes toward paid and unpaid work in Germany. Social Science Research, 112, 102804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102804