Name: Czech National Cluster for Family Research
Institution: Masaryk University
Partner Institution: Charles University
Coordinator: Prof. Martin Kreidl, Ph.D.; kreidlm@fss.muni.cz
GGP CZ is the Czech national node of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), which is included in the European Roadmap of Large Research Infrastructures. It is an inter-disciplinary, international, comparative and longitudinal infrastructure that collects, processes, archives, and disseminates data on individual life courses and family dynamics. It applies a cyclical panel design that interviews a new sample of survey respondents each decade and then follows them for up to 6 years through relationships, marriages, parenthood, divorces, deaths and many of the opportunities and challenges that people face along the way. It can be used to track the causes and consequences of these events at the individual and societal levels. Presently, over 200,000 individuals aged 18+ from over 20 countries have been interviewed as part of the GGP. Geographically, GGP covers European as well as non-European countries, including several countries in Asia, North and South America.
Societal and economic impacts:
GGS data is a freely accessible data resource that is valuable for researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders interested in demographic research and family studies and evidence-based policies that can improve societal well-being. Its high-quality, comprehensive data support a wide range of research and policy analyses, helping to address demographic and societal challenges such as declining fertility, family instability, population ageing, work-family reconciliation, and inter-generational conflict.
