Contents: 1 Development of sample sizes 2 1.1 Development of the number of successful interviews by cross-section 2 1.2 Longitudinal development of losses due to panel attrition 10 1.3 Entrants by birth or move-ins and their participation behavior 14 2 Losses due to unsuccessful follow-up 15 2.1...

Design-based estimators of totals, means or proportions in finite populations generally are functions of weighted sums. If each element selected into the sample is also observed, then for the calculation of the pi-estimator these weights are just the inverse inclusion probabilities of the...

Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle der Familie als materielles Unterstützungssystem anhand von Erbschaften und Schenkungen, die Eltern und Großeltern an ihre Kinder bzw. Enkel vergeben. Nach der Diskussion ökonomischer und soziologischer Literatur zum intergenerationalen Transfergeschehen wird...