Swedish Generations and Gender Survey 2020
This infrastructure project will collect data for a new round of the Swedish Generations and Gender Survey (GGS2020) to complement the previous Swedish GGS. It is part of the international Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) that has become one of the most important social science infrastructures for demographic research. The GGP will launch a new round of data collection on fertility and family dynamics in a large number of European and non-European countries in 2020. This will enhance the GGP’s unique open source research infrastructure for longitudinal and comparative studies of life-course changes and population development from a gender and generational perspective. The Swedish GGS2020 will consist of a web-based survey with linked register data. It will be accompanied by an update of the Swedish contextual database that complements the GGS. Together with the GGSs from other countries, it will allow research on the causes and consequences of fertility and family change in advanced societies and provide insight into factors that contribute to similarities or inequalities in family formation and life-course outcomes across gender, social groups, regions, and countries. The Swedish GGS and the GGP will provide an outstanding infrastructure for interdisciplinary research to understand how structural conditions shape family and work life courses. The Swedish GGS2020 and all GGSs will be available and harmonized for comparative research free of charge via the GGP website.
Final report
The Swedish Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is a research infrastructure of national interest. It is part of an international data infrastructure, the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP). The infrastructure includes a register-linked survey of adults to which a contextual database covering their adult lives is matched.
The GGP’s overarching goal is to provide data infrastructure for improved understanding of the causes and consequences of dramatic declines in fertility and changes in partnership behavior in Europe and other affluent countries. GGP data enable research on life-course decision processes; the role of values in life course choices; persistence and change in the gendered character of the life course; intra- and inter-generational processes in the life course; and improved understanding of the effects of welfare policy in general and policies focused on aging or gender.
The Swedish Generations and Gender Survey was carried out by means of an online (or postal option) questionnaire during 2021. Some data were collected through population registers. A target population of 30,000 individuals aged 18-59 years produced 8,082 respondents (response rate 27%). The field work was carried out by Statistics Sweden. Data from the Swedish GGS are available through the Generations and Gender Programme website at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute: http://www.ggp-i.org.
The GGP’s overarching goal is to provide data infrastructure for improved understanding of the causes and consequences of dramatic declines in fertility and changes in partnership behavior in Europe and other affluent countries. GGP data enable research on life-course decision processes; the role of values in life course choices; persistence and change in the gendered character of the life course; intra- and inter-generational processes in the life course; and improved understanding of the effects of welfare policy in general and policies focused on aging or gender.
The Swedish Generations and Gender Survey was carried out by means of an online (or postal option) questionnaire during 2021. Some data were collected through population registers. A target population of 30,000 individuals aged 18-59 years produced 8,082 respondents (response rate 27%). The field work was carried out by Statistics Sweden. Data from the Swedish GGS are available through the Generations and Gender Programme website at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute: http://www.ggp-i.org.