Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Elizabeth Thomson - Stockholm University, Department of Sociology
Gunnar Andersson - Stockholm University, Department of Sociology
Description
The Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) is a Social Science Research Infrastructure that provides micro- and macro-level data which significantly improve the knowledge base for social science. The Infrastructure is run by institutes with strong traditions in academic and policy-related research on population and family change and on survey methodology.
The survey was conducted in two waves. Up till now, 19 countries have conducted at least one wave of data collection, with an average of 9,000 respondents per country. The Generations and Gender Programme is unique in its large coverage of Central and East European countries. Respondents are interviewed every 3 years and changes in the family life are recorded. GGP covers the whole adult life-course, between the age of 18 and 79. The Programme’s main goal is to provide data that can contribute to enhanced understanding of demographic and social developments and of the factors that influence these
developments, with particular attention given to relationships between children and parents (generations) and those between partners (gender). A b
Research principal
Contributor(s)
United Nations, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
Data contains personal data
No
Unit of analysis
Population
People aged 18-79 years residing in one of the 19 countries included in the study
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
2001 – ongoing
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Austria
Geographic description: Wave 1 was conducted in 19 countries. Wave 2 was conducted in 12 countries.
Lowest geographic unit
Country
Highest geographic unit
Country
Research area
DEMOGRAPHY (POPULATION, VITAL STATISTICS, AND CENSUSES), SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Work Sciences
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
ageing, marital status, gender, economic activity, fertility, retirement, age differences, generation gap, ggs
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Elizabeth Thomson - Stockholm University, Department of Sociology
Gunnar Andersson - Stockholm University, Department of Sociology
Number of individuals/objects
9688
Response rate/participation rate
53.8%