The 1st joint International Family Sciences Conference 2026 “FACES – Families and Challenges in Evolving Societies in the D-A-CH Region and beyond” took place, organised by Eva-Maria Schmidt from the OIF, as spokesperson for the Family Research Section of the Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS),…
The ‘Personalausstattungsquote’ advances existing staff-child ratios in KiTas. It measures the degree to which staff-child ratios achieve scientific recommendation for early childhood education and care while taking age structure and other characteristics of the KiTas’ setting into account. The…
Publication on the weighting procedure used in the Austrian Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) 2022/23.
Parenting today is associated with intense pressure to meet expectations, whilst at the same time the birth rate is falling. At the family policy discussion on the topic "Good parents, bad parents? – Why perfection prevents children" on 28 January 2026, Eva-Maria Schmidt (OIF) discussed this with…
In early 2026, Eva-Maria Schmidt successfully completed her habilitation colloquium. She presented her cumulative habilitation thesis, entitled ‘Multiple relationalities and multiple perspectives – Approaching responsibilities and realities in families’, and demonstrated her expertise in the subject…
The latest edition of "Familien in Zahlen" once again highlights changes in selected key indicators over the past ten years and contains data on topics such as births and fertility, marriages and registered partnerships, divorces and dissolutions of registered partnerships, household types,…
Commissioned by the Vorarlberg Chamber of Labour, this qualitative study examines why parents are unwilling or unable to make use of early years education provision. To this end, parents in Vorarlberg were interviewed in November 2024. All 19 case studies can be linked to analytically derived themes…
On November 4, 2025, the "Companies for Families" platform celebrated ten years of commitment to family-friendly working environments. To mark the occasion, a partner day was held to discuss challenges and solutions for balancing family and career. In his keynote speech, Wolfgang Mazal, director of…
The GGP User Conference took place for the eighth time from 15 to 17 October 2025, this time at Tallinn University. Researchers from all over the world, who work with data from the Gender and Generations Programme (GGP), gathered there for an academic exchange. Sonja Dörfler-Bolt, Christine Geserick…
