Participating countries conduct social surveys based on standardized questionnaires, the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). The GGP has established guidelines concerning the sample frame and sampling methods for data collection, thus ensuring the representativeness of the national-level data. The first round of data collection (GGS I) was launched by the GGP in 2004, with harmonized data available for 19 countries. In most instances, this encompasses multiple waves, thereby providing longitudinal data. The second round of data collection (GGS II) commenced in 2020. By the end of 2023, 19 countries have completed the initial wave of data collection or conducted a pilot study, while other countries will conduct their surveys in 2024 and 2025.
The Generations and Gender Programme Data Portal (https://ggp.colectica.org) offers an overview of available datasets form these surveys and their documentation. Researchers can request access to the data via the GGP webpage (https://www.ggp-i.org).
Data Collection in Norway
In Norway, data for GGS I were collected in 2007/08 through a collaboration between Statistics Norway and the Norwegian Social Research (Oslo Metropolitan University). In 2020, the first wave of GGS II (as ‘Survey on Family and Work’), was conducted in collaboration with the University of Oslo (Prof. Trude Lappegård). The subsequent wave (GGS II – wave 2) is planned for April 2024. All respondents who participated in 2020 will be invited to partake in the follow-up study (entitled ‘Survey on Daily Life and Plans in Uncertain Times’).
Norwegian Collaboration with the GGP
The GGP was launched in 2000 under the umbrella of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) as the successor to the Fertility and Family Surveys (FFS). Since then, the GGP has evolved into a distributed research data infrastructure, with the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) serving as its host institution. Norway, represented by the Research Department of Statistics Norway, has been engaged in and contributed to both the FFS and GGP from their inception. Statistics Norway represents Norway in the Consortium Board of the GGP and is one of the 15 partner institutions of the GGP-5D project (The GGP Preparatory Phase Project for the ESFRI-Roadmap,Horizon Europe, Grant Agreement No. 101079357).
Statistics Norway is currently exploring potential collaborations with other research institutions in Norway to facilitate the implementation of the GGP within Norway and enhance Norway's representation in the GGP's international research infrastructure. The objective is to ensure Norway's sustained participation in the GGP and contribute to its scientific advancement.
Funding: Ministry of Children and Families, the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion, the Ministry of Culture and Equality, and the Research Council of Norway (project no. 300870).
Project period: 2020-2029
Publications
Documentation reports
Gauthier, A. H., et al. (2021). Generations and Gender Survey Baseline Questionnaire 3.1.1 (www.ggp-i.org) The Hague: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute.
Dommermuth, L. & Lappegård, T. (2021). The Norwegian Generations and Gender Survey, Round 2 - Wave 1 (2020). Documentation of the data collection process (www.ggp-i.org). Technical working paper. The Hague: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute.
Dommermuth, L. & Lappegård, T. (2021). The Generations and Gender Survey 2020 in Norway (www.ggp-i.org). GGP Connect Seminar, 3/2021.
The Generations and Gender Programme (2020). Technical Guidelines (www.ggp-i.org). The Hague: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute.
The Generations and Gender Programme (2020). Norway. National Questionnaire in Norwegian (GGS II – Wave 1) (ggp.colectica.org). Generations and Gener Programme Colectia Portal.
Lappegård, T. & Veenstra, M. (2010). Life-course, generation and gender. LOGG 2007. Field report of the Norwegian Generations and Gender Survey (2007). Documents 34/2010. Statistics Norway: Oslo.
Selected scientific publications (using Norwegian GGP-data)
OECD (2023). Exploring Norway's Fertility, Work, and Family Policy Trends, Paris, OECD Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1787/f0c7bddf-en
Arnsen. H. S. (2023). Arbeidsdeling i hjemmet: Er likestilte par mer fornøyde? [Division of household labour: Are gender equal couples more satisfied?], SSB analyse 2023/7.
Leocádio, V., Gauthier, A. H., Mynarska, M., & Costa, R. (2023). The quality of fertility data in the web-based Generations and Gender Survey. Demographic Research, 49(3), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2023.49.3
Krapf, S., Buber-Ennser, I., & Bujard, M. (2023). Education and Intended Number of Children in Germany,Moldova and Norway: An International Comparison UsingFReDA and GGS-II-data. Comparative Population Studies, 48(2023), 589-628. https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2023-22
Fallesen, P., Dommermuth, L., Hellstrand, J., Simonsen, E., Loft, L. T. G., & Mortensen, L. H. (2022). Research note: comparing ideal family size with observed and forecasted completed cohort fertility in Denmark and Norway. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Working Paper, 31(2022). https://doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2022-031
Dommermuth, L., & Klüsener, S. (2019). Formation and realisation of moving intentions across the adult life course. Population, Space and Place, 25(5), e2212. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2212
Dommermuth, L., Hohmann-Marriott, B., & Lappegård, T. (2017). Gender equality in the family and childbearing. Journal of Family Issues, 38(13), 1803-1824. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X15590686
Dommermuth, L., Klobas, J., & Lappegård, T. (2015). Realization of fertility intentions by different time frames. Advances in Life Course Research, 24, 34-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2015.02.001
Wiik, K. A., & Dommermuth, L. (2014). Who remains unpartnered by mid-life in Norway? Differentials by gender and education. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, XLV(3), 405-424. https://doi.org/http://www.jstor.org/stable/24339545