The HCSO Demographic Research Institute in Budapest – in cooperation with the Consortium Board of the Generations and Gender Programme and the Population Unit of the UNECE – is organizing the 1st User Conference of the GGP: Demographic and Social Challenges in an Aging Europe.
The conference aims to bring together researchers working with the Generations and Gender Surveys and the GGP Contextual Databases from all across Europe, and invite them to present and discuss their most recent methodological approaches and empirical findings. The Conference provides a forum for exchange of ideas among existing as well as new, potential GGP users, policy makers and the research community at large.
Nearly 50 papers will be presented in a total of 12 sessions. Presentations will cover a wide range of substantive and methodological issues: The HCSO Demographic Research Institute in Budapest – in cooperation with the Consortium Board of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) and the Population Unit of the UNECE – is organizing the 1st User Conference of the GGP. The theme of the conference is Demographic and Social Challenges in an Aging Europe. The conference aims to bring together researchers working with the Generations and Gender Surveys and the GGP Contextual Databases from all across Europe, and invite them to present and discuss their most recent methodological approaches and empirical findings. The Conference provides a forum for exchange of ideas among existing as well as new, potential GGP users, policy makers and the research community at large.
Nearly 50 papers will be presented in a total of 12 sessions. Presentations will cover a wide range of substantive and methodological issues:
Well-being of the elderly, Fertility behaviour, Intergenerational relationships, Fertility of subpopulations and different social groups, Fertility intentions and their realization, Data quality and validation, Labour market and economic well-being, Methodological considerations for studying fertility, Division of (un)paid work, Fertility, union formation and marriage, Survey methods and implementation, Cohabitation
Organizing committee:
Pearl Dykstra, Erasmus University, The Netherlands (Social and Population Policy)
Andrej Kveder, NIDI, Slovenia/The Netherlands (Methodology)
Ariane Pailhé, INED, France (Economics and Sociology)
Zsolt Spéder, DRI, Hungary (Demography)
You can also find the final programme and other practical information regarding the conference here.
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