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Generations and Gender Programme:. Advancing Statistics and Knowledge for Policymaking. Challenges Arising from Demographic Developments. Premise: To successfully meet challenges posed by demographic change, better understanding of demographic developments is required
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Generations and Gender Programme: Advancing Statistics and Knowledge for Policymaking Sub-regional Workshop on Gender StatisticsTbilisi, 27-29 September 2010
Challenges Arising from Demographic Developments • Premise: To successfully meet challenges posed by demographic change, better understanding of demographic developments is required • Simple identification of demographic trends is not sufficient • Causes and consequences of the demographic developments are to be understood and explained.
Generations and Gender Programme • Generations and Gender Surveys • a panel survey • nationally representative sample of 18-79 year-old population • 3 panel waves • interval of 3 years between each wave • Contextual databases • indicators, trends and policies • Analyses of these data
Organization • National level: • National committees / focal points • Programme level: • International Working Group: representatives of national committees / focal points • GGP Consortium(11 institutions) • Consortium Board (steering group) • Scientific coordination with the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ggp.unece.org
Key Features of the GGP • Macro and micro levels • Multidisciplinarity • Comparability • Life course approach → panel design • Generations • Gender
Life Course Dynamics • Childbearing • Partnership dynamics • Home leaving • Retiring
Topics • Economic situation: activity, income, wealth, education • Values and attitudes • Parent-child relationships • Gender relationships • Household composition • Housing • Contraception and infertility treatment • Health • Subjective well-being • Personal networks, private transfers • Public transfers
Panel Design Wave 1 Retrospective histories childbearing partnerships ANALYSIS of INTENTIONS CHILDHOOD CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS LIFE COURSE ANALYSIS
Panel Design Wave 3 Wave 1 Wave 2 Retrospective histories childbearing childbearing childbearing partnerships partnerships partnerships … CHILDHOOD ANALYSIS of INTENTIONS ANALYSIS of INTENTIONS economic activity economic activity CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS economic activity CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS changes from changes from Wave 1 to 2 Wave 2 to 3 LIFE COURSE ANALYSIS
Contextual Database: Content • Demography • Economy and social aspects • Labour & employment • Unemployment • Child care • Education • Health • Pension www.ggp-i.org/contextual-database.html