Generations and Gender Survey

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The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is a series of panel surveys on families, life course trajectories and gender relations 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 at least one wave of surveys in more than 19 countries, with an average of 9,000 respondents per country. [2] The importance of the GGS data is documented by its uptake in the research community, generating over 1,200 peer-reviewed 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]

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The participating countries are Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, 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]

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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. Archived from the original on 2016-02-06. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  3. "All 1115 publications by year". www.ggp-i.org. Archived from the original on 2016-02-06. 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.[ permanent dead link ]
  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. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.540.7495 .{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Presented at the EAPS European Population Conference, 21–24 June 2006, Liverpool