TY - JOUR
T1 - Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)
T2 - Towards a better understanding of relationships and processes in the life course
AU - Vikat, A.
AU - Spéder, Z.
AU - Pailhé, A.
AU - Pinnelli, A.
AU - Solaz, A.
AU - Beets, G.C.N.
AU - Billari, F.
AU - Bühler, C.
AU - Désesquelles, A.
AU - Fokkema, C.M.
AU - Hoem, J.
AU - MacDonald, A.
AU - Neyer, G.
N1 - Reporting year: 2007
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations
and Gender Programme designed to improve understanding of demographic and social
development and of the factors that influence these developments. This article describes
how the theoretical perspectives applied in the survey, the survey design and the
questionnaire are related to this objective.
The key features of the survey include panel design, multidisciplinarity, comparability, context-sensitivity, inter-generational and gender relationships. The survey applies the life course approach, focussing on the processes of childbearing, partnership dynamics, home leaving, and retiring. The selection of topics for data collection mainly follows the criterion of theoretically grounded relevance to explaining one or more of the mentioned processes. A large portion of the survey deals with economic aspects of life, such as economic activity, income, and economic well-being;a comparably large section is devoted to values and attitudes. Other domains covered by the survey include gender relationships, household composition and housing, residential mobility, social networks and private transfers, education, health, and public transfers.The third chapter of the article describes the motivations for their inclusion.
The GGS questionnaire is designed for a face-to-face interview. It includes the core that each participating country needs to implement in full, and four optional submodules
on nationality and ethnicity, on previous partners, on intentions of breaking up, and on housing, respectively. The participating countries are encouraged to include also the optional sub-modules to facilitate comparative research on these topics.
AB - The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations
and Gender Programme designed to improve understanding of demographic and social
development and of the factors that influence these developments. This article describes
how the theoretical perspectives applied in the survey, the survey design and the
questionnaire are related to this objective.
The key features of the survey include panel design, multidisciplinarity, comparability, context-sensitivity, inter-generational and gender relationships. The survey applies the life course approach, focussing on the processes of childbearing, partnership dynamics, home leaving, and retiring. The selection of topics for data collection mainly follows the criterion of theoretically grounded relevance to explaining one or more of the mentioned processes. A large portion of the survey deals with economic aspects of life, such as economic activity, income, and economic well-being;a comparably large section is devoted to values and attitudes. Other domains covered by the survey include gender relationships, household composition and housing, residential mobility, social networks and private transfers, education, health, and public transfers.The third chapter of the article describes the motivations for their inclusion.
The GGS questionnaire is designed for a face-to-face interview. It includes the core that each participating country needs to implement in full, and four optional submodules
on nationality and ethnicity, on previous partners, on intentions of breaking up, and on housing, respectively. The participating countries are encouraged to include also the optional sub-modules to facilitate comparative research on these topics.
U2 - 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.14
DO - 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.14
M3 - Article
SN - 1435-9871
VL - 17
SP - 389
EP - 440
JO - Demographic Research
JF - Demographic Research
M1 - 14
ER -