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FReDA Policy BriefLoneliness: Especially younger people are feeling increasingly lonely

In the last five years, the feeling of loneliness has increased in Germany. Today, one in three people between the ages of 18 and 53 feels lonely at least some of the time – including many younger people under 30, as new BiB analyses show.

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Miscellaneous Publicationspairfam Data Manual

Brüderl, Josef; Ludwig, Volker; Passet, Jasmin; Pforr, Klaus; Schütze, Phillip; Schumann, Nina (2011)

Technical Report. Mannheim: Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung

The manual facilitates the work with the pairfam data. It explains the structure of the datasets and provides a detailed description of the data-editing procedures undertaken. The data manual also contains relevant notes on generated variables and datasets, the DemoDiff and stepup subsamples, paradata, the computation and use of weighting factors, and the handling of biographical episode data.

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