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, and 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)