Netherlands Kinship Panel Study

NKPS is financed by the Dutch National Research Organisation (NWO) to help develop a large-scale database on Dutch families. The underlying research questions revolve around the theme of solidarity, which is defined as 'feelings of connectedness in family relationships and how these are expressed in behavioural terms'. The goal is to organise an extensive face-to-face interview survey among a large random of the Dutch population, ethnic minority families will be over-represented in the survey and will get special attention in the in-depth interviews. The NKPS has four special features that make it highly innovative:

• it is large (N = 10.000)
• it is a panel (respondents and family members will be interviewed at more than one point in time, yielding a prospective longitudinal design)
• it is multi-method (both structured interviews and in-depth open interviews will be conducted)
• it is multi-actor (data from individual respondents will be collected as well as from family members.

To encourage interested academic researchers to use the survey, the data will be made available to the broader research community free of cost.

First survey data will be available at the end of 2002. Moreover, accessible codebooks and user guides will be developed and workshops will be organised.

Colloquium: Solidarity between the sexes and the generations: transformations in Europe. Amsterdam 28 and 29 June 2001, Topics: changing family relations in the context of changing demographic patterns, changing labour market participation and changing social policies in European Welfare States.
Co-ordinators: Dr. Trudie Knijn and Dr. Aafke Komter
This Colloquium is at invitation only and is financed by the Royal Academy for Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Utrecht.

Coordinators:
Dr. Trudie Knijn, Associate Professor and
Dr. Aafke Komter, Associate Professor

• Dr. Pearl Dykstra and Dr. Aat Liefbroer, The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) , the Netherlands,
• Dr. Matthijs Kalmijn, Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), the Netherlands, and
• Dr. Claartje Mulder (NETHUR), University of Utrecht, the Netherlands,