Swedish Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)

Summary

Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) is a pan-European research infrastructure ensuring sustainable knowledge base for academic research and population-related policy formulation. It aims to continuously make significant contributions to policy goals such as securing social cohesion, modernizing the social welfare system, strengthening the position of women in society, and improving future generations’ life chances.

Type of data

Data Source
Registry + Survey

Type of Study
Survey same
Crosssection occasional

Data gathering method
Face-to-face
Registries
Self administered questionnaire

Access to data

Conditions of access
Only for the scientific community. Contact principal investigator. General information on the international GGS website: http://www.ggp-i.org/

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Mainly anonymised microdata and aggregated tables.

Formats available
Data set is compatible with Excel, SAS, SPSS, STATA, Text, etc.

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
More than 18,000 people have been randomly selected to represent the population. Each respondent represents a large group of people with similar life situations. The participants are asked about their own and other household members living situation. Swedish families in time is a panel survey, which means that many of those interviewed in 2012 will be asked to participate in shorter follow-up interviews in 2015 and 2018. By following the same individuals over time, we are able to study how people's family circumstances change through life. The Swedish GGS is organised by the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) in collaboration with the Aging Research Center (ARC) and Statistics Sweden (SCB). It is part of the International Generations and Gender Programme and will provide comparative data with a large number of countries about recent changes in family life-courses and relationships.

First year of collection
2012

Stratification if applicable
Age, sex, region, foreign background, etc.

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
The whole country.

Age range

Statistical representativeness
Population representative

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
The demographic research Swedish families in time is part of the larger international research project Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), which was initiated by the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe). The main purpose of the GGP is to improve our understanding of demographic and social changes and the factors influencing these changes. The GGP is particularly important in the study of the relationship between children and parents (generations) and between pairs (genus). GGP consists of three main parts. A survey (GGS) which covers a wide range of demographic behaviors. A contextual database of national and regional cultural and political change. The last part of GGP includes research conducted using the data collected.

Linkage

Standardisation
Part of the international GGS-study: http://www.ggp-i.org/

Possibility of linkage among databases
Good conditions to link to other data sets if ethical, technical and economic considerations are solved.

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
No major entry errors.

Breaks
This data set is recently started and has a future orientation.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
High level of consistency.

Governance

Contact information
Elizabeth Thomson and Gunnar Andersson, Stockholm University Demography Unit
Stockholm University
Universitetsvägen 10 B
106 91 Stockholm Sweden Phone: +46 (0)8 16 30 31; +46 (0)8 16 32 61
Email: elizabeth.thomson(at)sociology.su.se; gunnar.andersson(at)sociology.su.se
Url: http://www.suda.su.se/ggs

Timeliness, transparency
Normally one year. Contact principal investigator for further information.