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Generations and Gender Survey

Towards a better understanding of relationships and processes in the life course. Generations and Gender Survey. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Demographic Research Institute, Hungarian Central Statistical Office Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

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Generations and Gender Survey

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  1. Towards a better understanding of relationships and processes in the life course Generations and Gender Survey United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Demographic Research Institute, Hungarian Central Statistical Office Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) Università Bocconi, Italy Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), France Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED), France Università di Roma "La Sapienza“, Italy Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED), France 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

  2. Demographic Context in Europe • Below replacement fertility and low mortality  population ageing and decline • Changes in reproduction and cohabitation patterns  changes in family structure  • Academic interest: Why? Where do these developments lead? • Challenges to policies, including family policies, population policies Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  3. Need for Improvement in Knowledge • Advances in knowledge essential for informed formulation of coherent policies • Challenge for population research: from elaborate description towards understanding of how people make demographic choices Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  4. Generations and Gender Programme Currently the only international programme focusing on the analysis of population dynamics and its causes • Generations and Gender Surveys • a panel survey • nationally representative sample • 18-79 year-old resident population • at least three panel waves • interval of three years between each wave • Contextual databases Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  5. Key Features of the GGP • Prospective and retrospective views combined: Life course approach. Panel design - crucial novelty compared to FFS • Multidisciplinarity: demography, sociology, economics, psychology, political science, … • Comparability: aiming at rigorous adherence to common tools and content; comparability with FFS • Context-sensitivity: contextual database • Generations: facets of ageing, intergenerational relationships • Gender: access to education and employment, autonomy, division of roles;sample of both sexes, couple perspective, response items Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  6. Target Processes • childbearing • partnership dynamics • home leaving • retiring Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  7. Relationships Investigated in GGS Respondent’s mother Respondent’s father Other household members Determined through monetary transfers, emotional support, help Respondent Current partner Personal networks • Date and country of birth • Partnership quality • Circumstances of LAT • Children from previous unions • Highest completed education: level and subject • Economic activity, income, monetary transfers • Division of childcare, household tasks • Intentions of starting to live together, having a(nother) child • Fecundity, contraceptive use, infertility treatments Children of previous partners Children of the partner living in the household Children of the respondent with previous partners Children of the current partner living elsewhere Shared children Regardless of co-residence with R Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  8. Two Main Explanatory Domains • Economic aspects, including subjective assessment of them • Activity • Income • Wealth • Education  New Home Economics; relative income;absolute and relative deprivation • Values and attitudes  Second Demographic Transition Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  9. Other Explanatory Domains • Parent-child relationships • Gender relationships • Household composition, stepfamilies • Housing • Contraception and infertility treatment • Health • Subjective well-being • Personal networks, private transfers • Welfare state, public transfers Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  10. Retrospective View:Event Histories • Children • Birth • Start and end of co-residence with R • Partnerships • Start and end • Marriage, divorce • In the second wave: • Activity • Education Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  11. Prospective View: Intentions • Full set of questions include: • Intention • Expected consequences • Important circumstances • Perceived attitudes of relevant others • Implemented for: • having a/another child • starting to live with a partner; if in a non-residential partnership, starting to live with the current non-resident partner • breaking up (optional) • starting to live separately from parents • retiring Generations and Gender Survey - EAPS Conference, Liverpool, 24 June 2006

  12. Analysis Outputs after Wave 1 Wave 1 Retrospective histories • Standard tables and indicators • Analyses: • intentions as the dependent variable • retrospective histories as the dependent variable, e.g. • analyses of parity progression • combined partnership and childbearing histories • influence of parental home on home leaving, partnership dynamics, parenthood • association of experienced partnership and childbearing history with, e.g. • current value orientations and attitudes • current labour-market status • various cross-sectional analyses childbearing partnerships ANALYSIS of INTENTIONS CHILDHOOD CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS LIFE COURSE ANALYSIS

  13. Panel design allows analysis of how demographic behaviour shapes value orientations and attitudes, influences well-being, intergenerational and gender relationships Panel design allows analysis of the circumstances supporting or preventing the realization of intentions Analysis Panel design allows analysis of relationships between demographic behaviour and life domains that can hardly or not at all be measured retrospectively, like subjective dimensions, income 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

  14. GGS Data Collection as ofJune 2006 IWG member Committed, fundraising Pilot, preparation for Wave 1 Wave 1

  15. Thank you for your attention.

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