Background: How cohesive are families and how do they respond to their members’ needs? How do families transmit advantages and disadvantages within and across generations? Current data confine our answers to these questions to solidarity and transmission in the immediate family, overlooking other relatives who play a significant role in socialization, social integration, social support, and the reproduction of social status and inequality. Objective: This article presents the KINMATRIX project, a novel comparative survey that collected extensive data on a wide array of family members, moving beyond the traditional focus on the immediate family. Methods: The KINMATRIX data map out families as ego-centric networks of younger adults aged 25 to 35, including their parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and step- or half-relatives. The data prepared for scientific use include N = 12,438 egos (anchor-respondents) and N = 252,278 alters (anchor–kin dyads) in 10 countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States). Contribution: KINMATRIX contributes to research infrastructure by offering detailed relational and attribute data collected on family networks, covering a wide range of relatives and diverse family forms. These data reflect the complexity of contemporary families and add to our understanding of key family processes, such as solidarity and transmission. The broad scope supports comparative analyses across European societies and beyond.

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KINMATRIX：用于研究家庭和亲属关系的新数据资源（作者：Thomas Leopold、Charlotte Clara Becker、Beyda Çineli、Zafer Buyukkececi、Marcel Raab）


背景：家庭的凝聚力如何？他们如何回应成员的需求？家庭如何在代内和代际之间传递优势和劣势？目前的数据将我们对这些问题的答案限制在直系亲属中的团结和传承，而忽视了在社会化、社会融合、社会支持以及社会地位和不平等的再生产中发挥重要作用的其他亲属。目标：本文介绍了 KINMATRIX 项目，这是一项新颖的比较调查，收集了有关各种家庭成员的大量数据，超越了传统上对直系亲属的关注。方法：KINMATRIX 数据将家庭描绘为 25 至 35 岁年轻人的以自我为中心的网络，包括他们的父母、祖父母、兄弟姐妹、阿姨、叔叔、表兄弟姐妹以及继亲戚或同父异母的亲戚。为科学用途准备的数据包括 10 个国家（丹麦、芬兰、德国、意大利、荷兰、挪威、波兰、瑞典、英国、美国）。贡献：KINMATRIX 通过提供在家庭网络上收集的详细关系和属性数据，涵盖广泛的亲属和不同的家庭形式，为研究基础设施做出了贡献。这些数据反映了当代家庭的复杂性，并增加了我们对关键家庭过程的理解，例如团结和传承。广泛的范围支持欧洲社会内外的比较分析。