The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is a series of surveys administered by the Generations and Gender Programme to improve demographic and social developments among several countries in Europe as well as Australia and Japan. The programme has collected least one wave of surveys in 19 countries, with an average of 9,000 respondents per country. The resultant data has generated over 1,000 publications. It was launched by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, as a successor to its previous Fertility and Family Survey in the 1990s.
The participating countries are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation and Sweden. It does not include the United Kingdom, where, on the other hand, the UK households study has a similar scope.
Survey content
The core questionnaire contains over 1,000 questions or items, broadly classified as follows: