The list of centers aims to carry out high-quality teaching and research on households, kinship, and families. Most research on families and households is based on kinship structures, family sizes and composition, and the transformation from traditional hegemonic family structures to contemporary family settings, coupled with demographic transition. Various demographic events, such as fertility, marriage patterns, and mobility, mostly influence family systems, along with other socioeconomic covariates. The list of centers and institutions from multiple countries below provides good-quality research that has enriched the field of family demography in various aspects for years.
Asia
Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI), China
Centre for Family and Population Research, National University of Singapore
Institute for Population and Social Research, Thailand
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan
Africa
South African Population Research Infrastructure Network
North America
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Institute for Population Research, The Ohio State University
Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
National Center for Family & Marriage Research, Bowling Green State University
Office of Population Research (OPR), Princeton University
Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley
The Vanier Institute of the Family, Canada
South America
The Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre
Europe
Centre for Population Change (CPC), University of Southampton
Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Germany
Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED), France
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
Population and Society Unit (UPS), University of Florence, Italy
Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Sweden
DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Italy
Australia
School of Demography, Australian National University (ANU)
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), Melbourne
Queensland Centre for Population Research (QCPR), University of Queensland
A List of Surveys on Households and Families Around the Globe
China Family Panel Studies
Comparative Family Panel Survey
Demographic and Health Surveys
European Values Study
Generations and Gender Survey
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia
Indonesia Family Life Survey
Gateway to Global Aging Data
German Socio-Economic Panel
OECD Family Database
Korean Labor and Income Panel Study
Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences
Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys
Netherlands Kinship Panel Study
PAIRFAM-The German Family Panel
Panel Study on Income Dynamics
RAND Family Life Surveys
Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Swiss Household Panel
The CORESIDENCE Database
The International Social Survey Programme Survey
The Luxembourg Income Study Database
The UK Household Longitudinal Study
World Values Survey
Young Lives Study