Generations and Gender Survey
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.{{cite book|title=Demographic Research, Volume 17, Book 1|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand|year=2008|isbn=978-3-8370-3195-9}} The programme has collected at least one wave of surveys in more than 19 countries, with an average of 9,000 respondents per country.{{cite web|title=About the Generations and Gender Programme|url=http://www.ggp-i.org/about/about-ggp.html|website=www.ggp-i.org|access-date=2016-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206055218/http://www.ggp-i.org/about/about-ggp.html|archive-date=2016-02-06}} The importance of the GGS data is documented by its uptake in the research community, generating over 1,200 peer-reviewed publications.{{cite web|url=http://www.ggp-i.org/bibliography.html |title=All 1115 publications by year |website=www.ggp-i.org |access-date=2016-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206052954/http://www.ggp-i.org/bibliography.html |archive-date=2016-02-06 }} It was launched by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, as a successor to its previous Fertility and Family Survey in the 1990s.{{cite web|url=http://www.edac.eu/indicators_desc.cfm?v_id=117|title=Fertility and Family Survey (standard country tables), FFS|website=edac.eu, the European Data Center for Work and Welfare|access-date=2016-02-05}}
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.{{cite web|title=Welcome to the GGP|url=http://www.ggp-i.org/|website=www.ggp-i.org|access-date=2016-02-05}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.ggp-i.org/images/stories/Survey_Instruments/GGP_QuestW1Core.pdf |title=Generations and Gender Survey Core Questionnaire for Wave 1 |website=www.ggp-i.org |access-date=2016-02-05 }}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} broadly classified as follows:{{cite CiteSeerX |title=Generations and Gender Survey (GGS): Towards a Better Understanding of Relationships and Processes in the Life Course |author1=Andres Vikat |author2=Zsolt Spéder |author3=Gijs Beets |author4=Francesco C. Billari |author5=Christoph Bühler |author6=Aline Désesquelles |author7=Tineke Fokkema |author8=Jan M. Hoem |author9=Alphonse MacDonald |author10=Gerda Neyer |author11=Ariane Pailhé |author12=Antonella Pinnelli |author13=Anne Solaz |citeseerx = 10.1.1.540.7495}} Presented at the EAPS European Population Conference, 21–24 June 2006, Liverpool
- 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
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External links
- [http://www.ggp-i.org/ ggp-i.org (survey homepage)]
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