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Implementation of the GGS Survey in France

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A Longitudinal Approach to Family Trajectories in France

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The introduction and first chapter describe the Generations and Gender Survey and its implementation. Interviewing the same people several times raises methodological questions, such as data representativeness, since not all participants in the first wave took part in subsequent waves. Data consistency may also be a problem, as respondents may give different answers to the same question when asked several years apart.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For more detailed information, see five working papers published by INED between 2006 and 2012 (Régnier-Loilier 2006, 2010, 2012; Régnier-Loilier et al. 2011; Sebille and Régnier-Loilier 2007). Two further publications examine two crucial issues for any longitudinal survey: attrition (Régnier-Loilier and Guisse 2016) and the consistency of the data between waves (Régnier-Loilier 2014).

  2. 2.

    On this point, see Vikat et al. 2007; Régnier-Loilier 2009; Régnier-Loilier and Légaré 2010.

  3. 3.

    The first-wave questionnaire was designed for a maximum interview time of 1 h. An excessively long or complicated questionnaire might have discouraged respondents from participating in the next wave.

  4. 4.

    The indicators are not listed here because these contextual data were not used in this volume, which focuses on France. For more details, see Régnier-Loilier 2009; Régnier-Loilier and Légaré 2010; Caporali et al. 2013; Spilauer 2004a, b; Caporali et al. 2016. See also: http://www.ggp-i.org/ggp-contextual-database.html

  5. 5.

    We do not list the countries here because the situation is evolving. For updated information: http://www.ggp-i.org/data/data-access.html

  6. 6.

    We estimate that the surveys most similar to the reference questionnaire contain 80–90% of the expected variables, compared with only 25–30% for the least similar surveys; France lies between these two extremes, with data on roughly 70% of the expected variables. For more details, see Emery and Caporali 2016.

  7. 7.

    http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/pau/ggp/biblio/Biblio/current.html

  8. 8.

    Some questions were deleted, the wording of some questions was changed, the question order was changed, and some items and questions were added.

  9. 9.

    During the first trial, the survey was called “Générations et genre” (a word-for-word translation into French of “Generations and Gender”). However, genre is much broader, vaguer term in French and, since not many respondents knew what it referred to exactly, the survey was renamed “l’Étude des relations familiales et intergénérationnelles” (“Study of family and inter-generational relationships”).

  10. 10.

    The relevant local councils, departmental prefectures and gendarmeries were also notified that the survey would take place in their areas.

  11. 11.

    As in any survey, the initial sample was not drawn from all municipalities in France but from a limited number of areas, which were assigned to interviewers. Some respondents subsequently moved away from those areas.

  12. 12.

    These are hard to quantify, since no information was collected about them. But they account for scarcely a dozen in Wave 1 and not much more in Waves 2 and 3.

  13. 13.

    Particularly young people (in Wave 2, the youngest respondents were aged 21, compared with 18 in Wave 1), but also more generally people of any age to compensate for out-migration.

  14. 14.

    The weights were calculated in two steps: correction of non-response after modelling of factors linked to attrition (Régnier-Loilier and Guisse 2016) then calibration of Wave 1.

  15. 15.

    Some do not require raking variables.

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Appendix: French providers of funding for the different waves of the ERFI-GGS survey (2005, 2008 and 2011)

Appendix: French providers of funding for the different waves of the ERFI-GGS survey (2005, 2008 and 2011)

Wave 1

ANR: Agence nationale de la recherche (French National Research Agency)

CNAF: Caisse nationale des allocations familiales (National Family Allowances Fund)

CNAV: Caisse nationale d’assurance vieillesse (National Retirement Insurance Fund

COR: Conseil d’orientation des retraites (Pensions Advisory Council)

DARES: Direction de l’animation de la recherches, des études et des statistiques (Research, Studies and Statistics Directorate, Ministry of Labour, Employment, Training and Industrial Relations)

DREES: Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics Directorate, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health)

INED: Institut national d’études démographiques (French Institute for Demographic Studies)

INSEE: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies)

Wave 2

CNAF: Caisse nationale des allocations familiales (National Family Allowances Fund)

DREES: Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics Directorate, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health)

INED: Institut national d’études démographiques (French Institute for Demographic Studies)

INSEE: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies)

Wave 3

CNAF: Caisse nationale des allocations familiales (National Family Allowances Fund)

DREES: Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics Directorate, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health)

INED: Institut national d’études démographiques (French Institute for Demographic Studies)

INSEE: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies)

LABEX iPOPs: Laboratoire d’excellence “individus, populations, sociétés” (“Individuals, Populations, Societies” Laboratory of Excellence)

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Régnier-Loilier, A. (2017). Implementation of the GGS Survey in France. In: Régnier-Loilier, A. (eds) A Longitudinal Approach to Family Trajectories in France. INED Population Studies, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56001-4_2

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