Generations and Gender Survey

The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is a series of surveys administered by the Generations and Gender Programme to improve demographic and social developments among several countries in Europe as well as Australia and Japan.^[1] The programme has collected least one wave of surveys in 19 countries, with an average of 9,000 respondents per country.^[2] The resultant data has generated over 1,000 publications.^[3] It was launched by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, as a successor to its previous Fertility and Family Survey in the 1990s.^[4]

The participating countries are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation and Sweden.^[5] It does not include the United Kingdom, where, on the other hand, the UK households study has a similar scope.

Survey content

The core questionnaire contains over 1,000 questions or items,^[6] broadly classified as follows:^[7]

• parent-child relationships
  • parent’s perspective
  • child’s perspective
• relationships between partners
  • partnership formation and dissolution
  • gender perspective
• complex partnership and fertility histories, stepfamilies
• contraception and infertility treatment
• household
• housing
• economic activity, income and wealth
• education
• health
• personal networks
• welfare state
• subjective well-being
• values

References

1. Demographic Research, Volume 17, Book 1. BoD – Books on Demand. 2008. ISBN 9783837031959.
2. "About the Generations and Gender Programme". www.ggp-i.org. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
3. "All 1115 publications by year". www.ggp-i.org. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
4. "Fertility and Family Survey (standard country tables) , FFS". edac.eu, the European Data Center for Work and Welfare. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
5. "Welcome to the GGP". www.ggp-i.org. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
6. "Generations and Gender Survey Core Questionnaire for Wave 1" (PDF). www.ggp-i.org. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
7. Andres Vikat; Zsolt Spéder; Gijs Beets; Francesco C. Billari; Christoph Bühler; Aline Désesquelles; Tineke Fokkema; Jan M. Hoem; Alphonse MacDonald; Gerda Neyer; Ariane Pailhé; Antonella Pinnelli; Anne Solaz. "Generations and Gender Survey (GGS): Towards a Better Understanding of Relationships and Processes in the Life Course". The Pennsylvania State University. Presented at the EAPS European Population Conference, 21–24 June 2006, Liverpool

External links

• ggp-i.org (survey homepage)