Swedish participation in the Generations and Gender Programme

We ask for support for Swedish participation in the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), which in 2021 was established as an ESFRI Roadmap.

It is the most important and widely used open-access social-science infrastructure for comparative research on fertility and family dynamics in developed societies.

It provides life-course data on gender and generational relationships as collected via national Generations and Gender Surveys (GGS) with linked Contextual databases.

Swedish GGSs have been carried out in 2012 and 2021 and linked to register data on respondents’ past and post-survey life-course histories. The Swedish GGP is coordinated at Stockholm University.

The GGP-ESFRI is coordinated at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute and governed by a Consortium Board of representatives of European social-science institutes.

The scientific goal of the GGP is to provide high-quality data to investigate family change over time and across space with the aim to better understand the causes and consequences of these changes for individuals and societies.

This application is to allow for (a) the maintenance of previously collected Swedish survey data and its linked Contextual data as part of the GGP infrastructure; (b) future register-data linkages to existing survey data; and (c) the coverage of the Swedish membership fee to the GGP.

Swedish participation in the GGP is essential as Sweden often acts as a reference country in comparative family-demographic research.