Growing up in Germany prior to and in the early days of the pandemic. AID:A 2019 data on children, youth, and families

Abstract

Since 2009, the AID:A studies regularly provide an empirical source of information to the scientific community on how children, adolescents, and young adults grow up in their families and other social and educational contexts. Shortly before the start of the corona pandemic, the third main survey AID:A 2019 initiated a second longitudinal cohort. The data can be used for social and educational monitoring as well as basic and applied research and covers a wide range of topics within an interdisciplinary and multidimensional framework of well-being. The article presents the data of three sample components that are available for scientific re-use at the Research Data Center of the German Youth Institute (FDZ-DJI). The main focus is on the AID:A 2019 main sample with interviews of almost 11,800 target participants aged zero to 33 years and more than 6,600 parents of underage target participants in more than 6,355 households. We furthermore describe data from two expansion samples, AID:A NRW+ and AID:A Mig+, that followed the main survey up until summer 2020. They contribute target participants and parents in an additional 1,127 households in North Rhine-Westphalia and nationwide in 819 households in which at least one target person had a second-generation migration background.