Caritas Social Counselling
Caritas Social Counselling
Caritas social counselling centers support people in need, inform them about social benefits, provide bridging assistance and plan steps to sustainably improve their living situation. The data collected during the counseling provided an insight into the realities of life for people in poverty and gave an indication of structural social problems.
Link: www.caritas.at/sozialberatungsstatistik (displayed as Caritas social counselling statistics in German)
Towards a Comprehensive Terminology on Paid Parenting Leave
Towards a Comprehensive Terminology on Paid Parenting Leave
The COST Action ‘Parental Leave Policies & Social Sustainability’ focuses on enhancing and sharing knowledge about the role of paid parental leave (PPL) policies in fostering sustainable societies. Terminology design for the PPL policies reflects values and expectations that pursue different goals in societies. As societies change, the terminology also evolves. This report provides a detailed exploration of recent developments in terminology.
International Day of the Family 2025
International Day of the Family 2025
**May 15th has been declared ‘International Day of the Family’ by the United Nations. This is an annual event that draws attention to the importance of the family for society and the state.
On this occasion, Eva-Maria Schmidt, sociologist and ethnologist at the ÖIF, points out that the family is a consistently important part of our society: "The family continues to have a high subjective significance as a stable "we". This also shows how important solidarity, responsibility and caring for one another are for our society."
International Day of the Family 2025 (German)
Fokus Jugend 2025
Fokus Jugend 2025
The publication "Fokus Jugend" offers anyone interested in youth policy and youth work clearly presented figures. They illustrate the situation of young people aged 0 to 30 in Austria and highlight trends. This booklet summarizes the most important youth-relevant key data from the areas of population statistics, migration, education and training, media/internet use, the world of labour, as well as health and living conditions.
Fokus Jugend 2025 (PDF)
Parental use of home office
Parental use of home office
This study focuses on the parental use of home office and whether and to what extent it supports the compatibility of family and employment and how the division of labour between parents as well as the quality of their partnership differs with and without home office. Various characteristics and life circumstances of home office users have been included in the analysis.
Working Paper 104 (PDF)
Families in figures 2024
Families in figures 2024
Families in Figures (FiZ), the compilation of family-related statistics, has been updated for 2024. It shows the changes in selected key figures over the past ten years. It contains data on topics such as births and fertility, marriages/reasons for registered partnerships, divorces/dissolutions of registered partnerships, household and family forms, employment, childcare, family and social benefits as well as comparative European data. The 72 tables are provided with reading examples and some with illustrations, and a glossary explains family statistics terminology.
Familie in Zahlen 2024 (PDF)
Development in expenditures for families in 22 different EU Countries
Development in expenditures for families in 22 different EU Countries
The present study examines the question of how the level and type of spending in 22 different EU Countries have changed over the last two decades and whether international trends can be identified or whether the countries are developing differently. It also shows the Austria position itself in this comparison and what further developments in expenditures for families will emerge in the years 2020 to 2022.
Working Paper 103 (PDF)
New findings on family lives and intimate relationships in Austria
New findings on family lives and intimate relationships in Austria
A recently published special issue of the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (Volume 49, Issue 3) was created on the initiative of the ÖGS Family Research Section, which was founded in 2021, and provides an insight into current findings in family research in Austria. The articles in the issue cover a wide range of questions, theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.
Publication (PDF)
The 'good' divorce
The 'good' divorce
With a multi-perspective focus on the legal divorce practice in Austria, this study explores the collective understanding of a 'good' divorce. For this purpose, family judges, counsellors and mediators as well as divorced women and men discussed in focus groups about their experiences and ideas. Results stem from a content analysis of this data corpus.
Forschungsbericht 57 (PDF)