Publications and GUIDE Resources
GUIDE Resources
Child Wellbeing Variable Database
To assist researchers, policy makers, and others interested in child wellbeing, we have prepared a central database listing child and youth wellbeing measures commonly used in key longitudinal and cross-sectional comparative surveys in Europe organized by literature-based core concepts.Harmonisation Toolkit
Guidelines for harmonising child wellbeing variablesGUIDE Data Archive
These pages provide a comprehensive overview of the GUIDE survey information collected during pilot studies, including links to access the data, the questionnaires and the methodology.Policy Briefs
from COORDINATE, EuroCohort and MYWEB projects
Publications by year
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Taylor, L.K., Surdey, J.F., Sloan, S. (2026, coming soon).
Growing Up in Digital Europe: GUIDE’s Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Child Well-Being.
Springer Series on Child and Family Studies.
Collela, E.M. et al. (2026).
GUIDE: Innovations and Challenges to Survey Child Well-Being in Italy.
In: Taddei, L., Paolucci, M. (eds) Longitudinal Data Infrastructures in Europe. Spring, Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07005-0_9
Sagrestano, Lynda M.; Düval, Sabine; Feldhaus, Michael; Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Spieß, C. Katharina; Walper, Sabine (2026):
A conceptual framework for analyzing child well-being in the digital era based on panel data across Europe (Di-C-WELL).
BiB. Working Paper 2/2026.
Wiesbaden: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung. https://www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/2026/A-conceptual-framework-for-analyzing-child-well-being-in-the-digital-era-based-on-panel-data-across.html?nn=117776
Sagrestano, Lynda M.; Düval, Sabine; Feldhaus, Michael; Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Spieß, C. Katharina; Walper, Sabine (2026):
A conceptual framework for analyzing child well-being in the digital age based on panel data across Europe (Di-C-Well).
Munich: German Youth Institute.
DOI: 10.36189/DJI202602
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Bernardi, M., Booth, C. & Calderwood, L. (2025)
Mapping Survey Measures of Early Childhood Development and Parenting Across Nine Birth Cohort Studies.
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15181213.
Booth, C., Bernardi, M. & Calderwood, L. (2025)
Mapping Survey Content Across Nine International Birth Cohort Studies – at age 9-12 months.
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15180132
COORDINATE (2025)
The Impact of COVID-19 on Children: The Importance of Longitudinal Data and Survey Infrastructures. Policy Brief 4.
https://a264f261-1bc6-4004-94c4-46f2fddd7360.filesusr.com/ugd/90d31c_fe501d466b7e4f798b1c42866c2584e3.pdf
COORDINATE (2025)
Longitudinal Data on Children in the Digital Age. Policy Brief 5.
https://a264f261-1bc6-4004-94c4-46f2fddd7360.filesusr.com/ugd/90d31c_ffcfbd89381e4d6c81654220fd8d425b.pdf
Glavica, M. & Halamić, V. (2025)
Guidelines for Sharing Research Data on Human Participants.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15267609
Goswami, H., & Pollock, G. (2025)
‘A child-centred approach to longitudinal survey data collection’
In M. Sedmak, Z. Medaric, and B. Gornik, Oxford Handbook of Migrant Children and the Child-Centered Approach, Oxford University Press.
Babarovic, T., Krpanec, E., Blažev, M., Dević, I., Downey, S., Huttunen, I., … Pollock, G. (2025).
Children’s understanding of well-being related questions: results of cognitive interviews in four European countries.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 28(2), 163–178.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2024.2312621
Pollock, G. (2025)
Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE): Building the Future of Child Wellbeing Research
Read here →
Pollock, G., Salmela-Aro, K., & Symonds, J. E. (2025).
Cohort studies, child well-being, and policy impact: A special issue of the European Psychologist [Editorial].
European Psychologist, 30(3), 145–147.
https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000560
Ramaj, K. & Pollock, G. (2025).
Youth Advisory Boards (YABs): The case of Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE) study.
In Z. H. Bíró et al. (Eds.) Equity in Education: A Handbook for Participative Approaches in Research and Development to Address School Inequalities (pp. 126-144).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany: CEEOL Press.
Ramaj, K., & Pollock, G. (2025).
Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE): A comparative longitudinal study for child well-being.
European Psychologist, 30(3), 202–212.
https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000542
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina; Düval, Sabine; Huebener, Mathias; Siegel, Nico. A. (2025).
Digitale Mediennutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen: Einschätzungen zum Mindestalter und zur Rolle von Bildungseinrichtungen.
BiB.Aktuell, 7/2025, 3–8.
https://www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/2025/pdf/BiB-Aktuell-7-2025.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3
Sipos, Flórián; Envina Xhemi; Peter Krasztev (eds.) (2025):
Equity in Education: A Handbook for Participative Approaches in Research and Development to Address School Inequalities.
Budapest: CEEOL Press
Sipos, Flórián and Zsófia Zsuga (2025):
TISZtA PART Action Research: Co-creating Solutions to Environmental Challenges and Bridging Generational Conflicts.
In Z. H. Bíró et al. (Eds.) Equity in Education: A Handbook for Participative Approaches in Research and Development to Address School Inequalities (pp. 224-249).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany: CEEOL Press.
Skalická, V. & Eikemo, T.A. (2025).
The Nordic model fails to protect vulnerable children.
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 49,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101217.
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Ramaj, K. & Pollock, G. (2024).
Polycrisis and Child Wellbeing: Future Avenues Across Europe (Working Paper).
Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14237309
Pollock, G. (2024)
World Happiness: how are children and young people?
https://www.coordinate-network.eu/post/world-happiness-how-are-children-and-young-people
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Sergeant, P. (2023)
My Reflections on GUIDE Conference, Florence Italy
https://www.coordinate-network.eu/post/my-reflections-on-guide-conference-florence-italy
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Pollock, G. Ozan, J. & Goswami, H. (2022)
‘Life-course inequality and policy: a focus on child well-being’
In Nico, M. and Pollock, G. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course.
Oxon: Routledge.
Pollock, G. & Ozan, J. (2022)
‘Growing Up in Digital Europe/EuroCohort: Developing a Comparative Longitudinal Survey of Child Well-being in Europe’
In Kluge, (ed.) Transdisciplinarity: A Research Mode for Real-World Problems, Population Europe, Population and Policy Discussion paper 16.
https://population-europe.eu/files/documents/pe_dp_transdisciplinarity.pdf
Mónus, Ferenc; Béres, Tamás; Sipos, Flórián (2022):
Egyetemi hallgatók környezettudatossága a materializmus, az élettel való elégedettség, a politikai, illetve a pandémiával kapcsolatos nézeteik függvényében.
(University students' environmental awareness as a function of materialism, life satisfaction, political and pandemic-related views.)
Metszetek 11(1): 70–97
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Ecchia, G, O’Leary, C & Messori, L (2021)
Ex-ante Socio-Economic Impact Assessment for a Social Science Research Infrastructure: the Case of EuroCohort
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 92(3), pp531-563.
Pollock, G, Goswami, H. & Szymczyk, A. (2021)
‘Child Well-being Across the Life-course: What Do We Know, What Should We Know?’
In P. Banati, (ed.) Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course: Evidence from Longitudinal Research
Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Pollock, G. (2021)
GUIDE questionnaire design
In https://www.coordinate-network.eu/post/paris-meeting-27th-to-29th-september-2021
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Blažev, M., Babarović, T. & Serracant, P.
Characteristics of piloting longitudinal birth cohort surveys: a systematic review.
Qual Quant55, 1047–1069 (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-020-01042-1
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Emery, T., Pollock, G. & Scherpenzeel, A. (2019):
Securing High-quality Data on Populations: Why we need EuroCohort, GGP and SHARE in Europe.
Population & Policy Compact 23, Berlin: Max Planck Society/Population Europe.
https://population-europe.eu/policy-brief/securing-high-quality-data-populations
2019 Interview by the Catalonian Sociology Association (in Catalan)
https://ambitscolpis.com/2019/03/29/intentem-convencer-els-politics-que-es-important-disposar-de-dades-longitudinals-dalta-qualitat-per-fer-bones-politiques-socials/
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Backeberg, L, & Busse, B (2018).
Child and Youth Well-Being on the European Agenda.
In G. Pollock, J. Hind-Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, & A. Stasulane (Eds.), Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy.
Cham: Springer.
Busse, B. & Backeberg, L. (2018).
Longitudinal Research on Children and Young People in Europe and Beyond.
In G. Pollock, J. Hind-Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, & A. Stasulane (Eds.), Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy.
Cham: Springer.
Franc, R., Sucic, I., Babarovic, T., Brajsa-Zganec, A. Kaliterna-Lipovcan, L., & Dević, I. (2018).
How to Develop Well-Being Survey Questions for Young Children: Lessons Learned from Cross-Cultural Cognitive Interviews.
In G. Pollock, J. Hind-Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, & A. Stasulane (Eds.), Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy.
Cham: Springer.
Mihalik, J. Garaj, M., Sakellairou, A., Koronaiou, A., Alexias, G., Nico, M., de Almeida Alves, N., Unt, M., & Taru, M. (2018).
Similarity and Difference in Conceptions of Well-Being Among Children and Young People in Four Contrasting European Countries.
In G. Pollock, J. Hind-Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, & A. Stasulane (Eds.), Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy.
Cham: Springer.
Nico, M., de Almeida Alves, N., Ferrer-Fons, M., Serracant, P., & Soler-i-Marti, R. (2018).
Methodological Challenges When Involving Children and Young People in Survey Research on Well-Being.
In G. Pollock, J. Hind-Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, & A. Stasulane (Eds.), Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy.
Cham: Springer.
O’Leary, C. & Fox, C. (2018).
Understanding the Potential Policy Impact of a European Longitudinal Survey for Children and Young People.
In G. Pollock, J. Hind-Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, & A. Stasulane (Eds.), Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy.
Cham: Springer.
Ozan, J., Mierina, I., & Koroleva, I. (2018).
A Comparative Expert Survey on Measuring and Enhancing Children and Young People’s Well-Being in Europe.
In G. Pollock, J. Hind-Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, & A. Stasulane (Eds.), Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy.
Cham: Springer.
Ozan, J., Pollock, G., Goswami, H., & Lynn, P. (2018)
‘Challenges in conducting a new longitudinal study on children and young people well-being in the European Union’
In G. Pollock, J. Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, and A. Stasulane (eds) Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey could improve Policy
New York: Springer.
Pollock, G., Ozan, J., & Goswami, H. (2018)
‘Notions of well-being, the state of child well-being research and the MYWeB project’
In G. Pollock, J. Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, and A. Stasulane (eds.) Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey could improve Policy
New York: Springer.
Pollock, G., Ozan, J. Goswami, H. & Fox, C., (2018)
‘With a view towards the future: different options to measure the well-being of children and young people across Europe longitudinally’
In G. Pollock, J. Ozan, H. Goswami, G. Rees, and A. Stasulane (eds) Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey could improve Policy
New York: Springer.
Pollock, G. (2018)
‘EuroCohort: Europe’s first birth cohort survey’
Social Research Matters, Sept, p6.
http://the-sra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sra-research-matters-september-2018-edition.pdf
accessed 8 January 2019.
Pollock, G. (2018)
ECDP and Social Science Research Infrastructure Strategy
http://www.eurocohort.eu/blog-39/ecdp-and-social-science-research-infrastructure-strategy-by-gary-pollock-ecdp-project-coordinator/id/11
accessed 13th June 2018.
Sipos, Flórián (2018):
‘Young People’s Attitudes to, and Practices of, Political Participation on the Internet: What Can We Learn from Large-Scale Qualitative Research?’
In: Franc, Renata; Pollock, Gary; Pilkington, Hilary (eds.) Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe.
London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 179-206.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-59007-7
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Pollock, G. & Hind E. (2017)
‘Young people, contemporary challenges and the future trends’
Strasbourg: European Union/Council of Europe Youth Partnership.
https://pjp-eu.coe.int/documents/42128013/47261641/Youth+Trends+2017.pdf/e4d934cd-db60-6bfa-21ea-82ac43ede6fc
accessed 30th April 2020.
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Goswami, H. & Pollock, G. (2016)
‘Correlates of Mental Health and Psychological Well-being of European Youth: evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey’
Howard Williamson (ed.) Perspectives on Youth, Healthy Europe: Confidence and Uncertainty for Young people in Contemporary Europe, Strasbourg, Council of Europe Publishing.
Szántó Zsuzsa, Susánszky Éva, Berényi Zoltán, Sipos Flórián, Murányi István (2016):
A jól-lét fogalmának értelmezése az európai szakirodalomban (2009–2014)
(Understanding of the concept of well-being in the European literature 2009-2014)
Metszetek (5)1: 16-47.
Zsuzsa, Szanto; Eva, Susanszky; Zoltan, Berenyi; Florian, Sipos; Istvan, Muranyi (2016):
Understanding Well-Being. Review of European Literature 1995-2014.
Journal of Social Research and Policy 7(1): 1–18.
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Goswami, H., Fox, C, & Pollock, G. (2015)
‘The current evidence base and future needs in improving children’s well-being across Europe: is there a case for a comparative longitudinal survey?’
Journal of Child Indicators Research
DOI 10.1007/s12187-015-9323-5.
Flórián Sipos (2015):
‘Ethnographic Case Study of Youth Activism: Extracurricular Activities of a Buddhist School in Ózd.’
In: Eternal return? The Specter of Radicalism among Young People in Europe and Hungary, ed. by István Murányi, 189-224.
Budapest: L’Harmattan.