9 Oct 2026

Research Assistant Wanted for the Generations and Gender Programme

The Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University is seeking a Research Assistant to support an international research project. We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented candidate to contribute to mapping the use of Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) data in scientific publications and research outputs.

9 Oct 2026

Who Lives with Their Parents? New GGS Analysis Compares Young Adults Across 16 Countries

16 Sep 2026

Job vacancy – Research Assistant, Department of Sociology

For the project “The Contemporary Czech Family” we are looking for a colleague to join us as a research assistant.

11 Sep 2026

Meeting Partners Online: Online Dating in GGS 2020-2025 Data

How often do people today meet their partners through online dating platforms? Explore the results of a new analysis based on data from the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) collected between 2020 and 2025.

3 Sep 2026

Follow Our Project on Instagram

Our project is now also present on Instagram. Through our profile, we will regularly share updates on project activities, upcoming events, research findings, and other news related to the project.

18 Jun 2026

GGP Connect Webinar – Czechia Wave 2

At this webinar, fieldwork procedures implemented in the second wave of Czech GGSII., conducted between January and September 2025, as well as an analytical approach to respondent mismatch across waves, will be presented by Martin Kreidl and Daniel Horn.

12 Jun 2026

Czech GGS-II data release at the Sustainability@Leave COST Action Final Conference

The Final Conference of the Sustainability@Leave COST Action, held in Prague on 26 May 2026 at Charles University, featured the official data release of the second wave of the Czech Generations and Gender Survey (GGS-II).

12 May 2026

Claude Code for Data Analysis

Are you using Claude Code (or thinking about it) for quantitative analysis in R or Stata? Come join us for a working session to share experiences, tips, and practical strategies.

Data from the second wave of the Contemporary Czech Family survey (GGS-II) are now available for download

The data from the second wave of the Contemporary Czech Family survey (GGS-II) are now available to researchers for download from the GGP Data Portal on the Generations and Gender Programme website.

5 Feb 2026

GGS-II Wave 3 – Call for survey questions

The Generations and Gender Programme is inviting proposals for new survey questions or modules to include in the GGS-II Wave 3 questionnaire.

8 Dec 2025

Intergenerational relationships between parents and their adult children

In the series devoted to the relationships between parents and their adult children, we focused on forms of intergenerational relationships, mutual support, help, and communication.

30 Nov 2025

Call for research projects requesting access to EDUC research infrastructures

The Alliance European Digital UniverCity – EDUC is opening the second call for research projects, through which Ph.D. candidates and researchers at EDUC member institutions can apply for access to the research infrastructures of the EDUC Widening partners.

GGP CZ seeks to hire a post-doctoral researcher

GGP CZ seeks to hire a post-doctoral researcher to join the national GGP team. The successful candidate will participate in the organization of the GGP in Czechia, especially in the implementation of the GGS survey (locally known as “Contemporary Czech Family Survey”).

Competition for the best student paper with GGS data

We are announcing a competition for the best student paper based on data from the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). The competition is open to students of the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University at all levels of study.

13 Jun 2025

The program for the 8th GGP User Conference is now online

This October, the 8th GGP User Conference will take place in Tallinn, Estonia. Members of the research team of the project The Contemporary Czech Family will also present their papers and posters at the conference.

4 Jun 2025

GGP Best Master Thesis Award

Have you used GGP data in your thesis? Apply now for the GGP Best Master Thesis Award!

16 May 2025

Contraceptive behavior of women in Czechia

A new leaflet with the results of the “Contemporary Czech Family” study focuses on the contraceptive behavior of women in Czechia. The analysis shows how this behavior changed between 2008 and 2022.

15 Apr 2025

Partners' similarities and differences by education and age

The new leaflet focuses on the similarities or differences between partnersby two characteristics – education and age.

Student competition for the best study/paper using the Generations and Gender Survey data

We are announcing a student competition for the best GGS study/paper award. The competition is intended for students of the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University (FSS MU) at all levels of study.

10 Mar 2025

Reproductive milestones of Czech women and men

When do Czech women and men experience important reproductive milestones, such as the birth of their first child or their first sexual experience? This is the focus of the latest leaflet with the results of the “Contemporary Czech Family" research.

15 Nov 2024

Decreasing fertility plans between 2020-2022

A significant decrease in short-term and long-term fertility plans occurred among young people aged 18-39 between 2020 and 2022, when the data collection of the first wave of the "Contemporary Czech Family" (Czech GGS-II) took place. In 2022, respondents indicated that they wanted to have a child in the next three years and in the more distant future less often than in 2020. 

23 Oct 2024

The piloting of the questionnaire begins

2 Oct 2024

Teaching datasets

The Generations and Gender Survey now offers simplified datasets suitable for teaching and training data analysis.

27 Sep 2024

Online dating

As the Internet and digital technologies become more accessible, the number of areas of life affected by these technologies also increases. One of these areas is relationships and dating. The new analysis focuses on online dating among Czech respondents.

6 Sep 2024

GGP-CZ on the list of infrastructures in the EDUC-WIDE call

GGP-CZ, the Czech node of the Generations and Gender Programme, was added to the list of research infrastructures participating in the EDUC-WIDE call.

20 Aug 2024

Conditions and motivations for parenthood

Family lives of young people are a topic that arouses the attention of the public and the media. In the new leaflet, we focused on how young people think about parenthood, what effect the birth of a child would have on their lives, and whether they believe that in the coming years they will have fulfilled the conditions that are generally considered to be important for starting a family.

15 Aug 2024

Czech GGS-II Data Update

A major update of the GGS-II wave 1 in Czechia has been released, which includes new respondents, corrections to filter errors and standardized labels. These updates can be found on the GGP Data Portal.

9 Aug 2024

Attitudes towards gender roles

How do Czech respondents view the family roles of women and men and how have their attitudes changed in the last 16 years? We answer that in the new leaflet.

9 May 2024

Czech women's reproductive plans

A new analysis shows that long-term reproductive plans are already made at the start of adulthood; short-term plans a little later!

1 Mar 2024

Two PhD positions at FSS MU

The Department of Sociology (FSS MU, Brno) will hire two PhD students for employment (and/or contract) on ongoing projects.

3 Jan 2024

Part-time jobs in Czechia

According to the Contemporary Czech Family project (Czech GGS-II), part-time work is not common in the Czech Republic. It is most often used by students, seniors, and women taking care of small children.

"Contemporary Czech Family" – data documentation

New documentation for the "Contemporary Czech Family" data was just published!

12 Dec 2023

Division of housework between parents

New results from the Czech GGS show that women still do most of the housework in families with children.

15 Nov 2023

New study: Sexual disagreements and separation proneness

New study with the GGS data from seven countries shows that frequent sexual disagreements are associated with thinking about breaking up - more strongly among women than among men.

11 Oct 2023

Partnership satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic

A new study using data from the Contemporary Czech family study focuses on the development of partnership quality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Czechia.

24 Jul 2023

New study about the impact of the pandemic on reproductive behavior in Czechia

New study by Jitka Slabá (Charles University) based on the Czech Pilot Follow-up data analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic  on the reproductive behavior of Czech men and women.

28 Apr 2023

Parenting and Caring for Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic

New study using data from the Czech GGS Covid Pilot shows how parents in Czechia provided childcare during three major Covid-19 lockdowns.

17 Apr 2023

Czech GGSII data are now available!

Czech data from the second round of the international Generations and Gender Survey are now available to all researchers.

29 Mar 2023

The stability of co-residential partnerships after first birth

A new study with the Czech GGS data examines the stability of unmarried cohabitations and marriages after the first birth.

New publications with the Czech GGS Covid Pilot study

Last year, several studies were published based on data from the Czech GGS Covid Pilot study. They focus on fertility, life satisfaction, partner stability, or satisfaction with the partnership.

19 Aug 2022

How does working from home affect work-family conflicts?

According to a new paper with data from the Czech GGS COVID Pilot, working from home was associated with more frequent conflicts between work and family during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially among men and parents of children under 15.

1 Aug 2022

Data collection is finished!

We have completed the data collection of the first wave of the Contemporary Czech Family project. We thank all respondents for their cooperation!

25 Jul 2022

Partnership satisfaction and conflicts during the Covid-19 pandemic – new study

New research with the Czech GGS COVID Pilot data shows that partnership satisfaction has dropped significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic.

25 Jul 2022

Field news: 5,345 questionnaires collected!

We thank all participants for their cooperation!

6 Jul 2022

The Czech COVID Pilot Follow-up data are now available

Data collection took place between 4 and 19 April 2021. In total 1187 of the original respondents completed the follow-up.

24 Jun 2022

Reproductive plans during the Covid-19 pandemic

In her new paper with data from the Contemporary Czech Family project, Jana Paloncyová examined the reproductive plans of the respondents during the Covid-19 pandemic.

2 Jun 2022

Field news: 4,339 questionnaires collected!

We thank all participants for their cooperation!

4 May 2022

Field news: 3,509 questionnaires collected!

We thank all participants for their cooperation!

28 Mar 2022

Reprodukční klima v době nejstriktnějších pandemických omezení

17 Mar 2022

Field news: 2,660 questionnaires collected!

We thank all participants for their cooperation!

PhD researcher/student position at Masaryk University

The Faculty of Social Studies (MU) invites applications for the position of PhD researcher/student in sociology/demography/survey methodology. The successful candidate will join the Czech GGP team.

5 Feb 2022

Konflikty mezi prací a rodinou: Jak se projevují a kdo je nejohroženější?

31 Jan 2022

Field news: 1,837 questionnaires collected!

We thank all participants for their cooperation!

3 Dec 2021

In media: Who doesn't trust vaccination?

We bring you a selection of articles from the media that wrote about the results of the Contemporary Czech family project in the last few days.

3 Dec 2021

Field news: 1,326 questionnaires collected!

We thank all participants for their cooperation!

In media: Contraceptive use and trust in vaccination

We bring you a selection of articles from the media that wrote about the results of the Contemporary Czech family project in the last few days.

12 Aug 2021

In media: Caring in the time of the pandemic and babyboom

We bring you a selection of articles from the media that wrote about the results of the Contemporary Czech family project in the last few days.

2 Aug 2021

In media: About declining birth rates and the quality of relationships

We bring you a selection of articles from the media that wrote about the results of the Contemporary Czech family project the last week.

GGP added to the ESFRI Roadmap 2021

Big success! The Generations and Gender Programme is part of ESFRI Roadmap 2021, which brings together major European research infrastructures.

17 Jun 2021

The fourth GGP Connect webinar: June 29

The fourth GGP Connect webinar on the GGS in Hong Kong will be held on 29 June.

20 May 2021

The third GGP Connect webinar: May 25

The third GGP Connect will take place on May 25 at 1 PM (Amsterdam time). Trude Lappegard and Lars Dommermuth will present the Norwegian GGS data collection.

Data collection in the Czech Republic continues

Interviewers are back in the field! By the end of 2021, they will collect questionnaires from 6,000 Czech households.

6 May 2021

Pilot study results on sexual life

At what age does sexual life begin? Which contraception is the most used, and who decides on it? The Czech pilot study results on intimate life are available.

30 Apr 2021

Call for Papers: 6th GGP User Conference (4 to 8 October 2021)

Abstracts should be submitted by May 21st at the latest through the form on the GGP website.

26 Apr 2021

First results of the Czech Covid-19 pilot study

The pilot of the Czech Generations and Gender Survey involved 1 327 respondents. The first results are already available.

20 Apr 2021

Czech COVID-19 pilot: Follow-up data collection was completed!

A total of 1200 respondents were re-interviewed in wave 2 of the "Czech COVID-19 pilot". We want to thank all of them cordially!

6 Apr 2021

The second GGP Connect webinar: April 26

At the second webinar, Aliona Cristei and Aliona Cretu will present the Moldovan Generations and Gender Survey.

16 Mar 2021

New webinar series GGP Connect

The first webinar will be on Tuesday 30 March. Prof. Martin Kreidl will be talking about the Czech GGS Covid-Pilot survey.

1 Mar 2021

New data release from Moldova

GGS data from Moldova will soon be available to researchers. They contain information about 10,000 respondents.

9 Feb 2021

The latest GGP publications

Check out the latest publications from the Czech GGP team.

11 Dec 2020

New international questionnaire is online

Anyone interested in GGP data can now download the baseline Generations & Gender Survey 2020.

20 Nov 2020

The data collection in the Czech Republic begins

Invitation letters to the online data collection of the Contemporary Czech family study are on their way to selected Czech households.

16 Oct 2020

New GGP data from Canada are now available

A new data source from Canada from 2011 is now available in the Harmonized Histories dataset.

8 Oct 2020

Interviewers' training to begin in October

Preparations for the new data collection in 7,000 Czech households are in full swing. Interviewers' training begins in October.

4 Aug 2020

Let us know abour your GGP publication

Enrich the Generations and Gender Programme bibliography with your publication.

22 Jul 2020

Data collection was supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Data collection starting in Fall 2020 was financially supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.

8 Jul 2020

Twentieth anniversary of the GGP. Get to know its founders

Read about the GGP founding members, their role in the programme and their involvement in its development.

1 Jul 2020

The GGP online meeting recording

The online meeting took place on Wednesday, June 24. The representatives of twenty-nine countries joined the meeting.

23 Jun 2020

The GGP user community is constantly growing

The GGP user community continues to grow at a pace of 15 % per year. It currently has over 4,500 registered users.

21 Jun 2020

The Czech GGS data collection will begin in Fall 2020

The Czech national GGP team will begin the new round of fieldwork in Fall 2020.

5 Jun 2020

New round of data collection with Covid-19 questions

The new round of data collection will contain questions related to the Covid-19 context and its outcomes.

29 Mar 2020

New GGP data from Spain are now available

A new data source from Spain from 2018 is now available in the Harmonized Histories dataset.

21 Dec 2019

New GGP Citation Requirements

We have changed the way we would like users to cite the GGP data.

2 Dec 2019

Masaryk University: Job offer

Masaryk University seeks to appoint a doctoral student or a post-doctoral scholar in the Office of Population Studies and Department of Sociology as soon as possible, but no later than July 1, 2020.

20 Nov 2019

Student competition for the „Best GGS paper award"

Any student enrolled at FSS may nominate a published or unpublished research paper as long as the paper utilizes data from the Generations and Gender Survey. Nominations should be sent no later than May 15, 2020.

6 Oct 2019

New GGP data from The Netherlands are now available

A new data source from The Netherlands from 2013 is now available in the Harmonized Histories dataset.

11 Aug 2019

GGP User Conference: Programme

The 5th GGP User Conference organized by the Generations and Gender Programme in cooperation with INED will be held 23-25 October 2019 in Paris. Full program is now online.

6 Aug 2019

Masters Thesis GGP Award

In order to be eligible, authors should have submitted the thesis between 1st September 2017 and 1st September 2019 and used GGP data. Deadline for submission is 1st September 2019.

6 Aug 2019

Updated contextual database is online and ready for use

Database contains open access, comparable and aggregated contextual data for a wide number of European and non-European countries

27 Jul 2019

Complete Czech GGS data from 2008 are now publicly accessible

Data from the second wave of GGS are accessible through the Czech Social Science Data Archive at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ČSDA).

18 Mar 2019

GGP User Conference: Call for Abstracts

Abstracts should be submitted by 26^th April 2019.

3 Mar 2019

Zuzana Žilinčíková successfully defended her dissertation

The dissertation examines the dissolutions of cohabitations and its consequences by using Generations and Gender Survey data.

3 Mar 2019

PhD fellowship in family demography

This PhD fellowship is intended for outstanding international students enrolled in the Sociology PhD Programme at Masaryk University who conduct research in the area of family demography, broadly construed. Project proposals working with Generations and Gender Programme data and taking a comparative approach are especially welcome.

16 Jan 2019

Zuzana Žilinčíková and Nicole Hiekel published article in Comparative Population Studies

Žilinčíková and Hiekel examine the role of marital attitudes in the transition from cohabitation to marriage in seven European countries in their new paper.

16 Jan 2019

Martin Kreidl and Zuzana Žilinčíková published new article

The research paper summarizes gender differences in repartnering.

5 Dec 2018

Student competition for the best GGS paper

Any student enrolled at FSS may nominate a research paper. Nominations should be sent no later than May 15, 2019.

9 Jul 2018

Renata Kyzlinková and Anna Šťastná published article about fatherhood

The study examines the factors influencing the transition to fatherhood using the Czech Generations and Gender Survey data.

3 Jul 2018

An animated introduction to the GGP

Short animated film explains the purpose and function of the Generations and Gender Programme.

1 Jun 2018

Recording of the webinar about the new round of data collection

The webinar was focused on the organization of the new round of data collection in 2020.

17 May 2018

Zuzana Žilinčíková published article in Population

The article compares the stability of cohabiting unions (especially those with children) to marriage.

15 Apr 2018

GGP Council of Partners Meeting in Brussels

The meeting will take place on Wednesday, June 6, 2018.

13 Feb 2018

Martin Kreidl and Barbora Hubatková published article in Journal of Divorce and Re-marriage

The article analyzes gender differences in postdivorce repartnering.

28 Apr 2017

New round of data collection under preparation

Preparations for the new round of data collection in 2019 were initiated

7 Apr 2017

MU and CU arranged a cooperation

Two key institutions of the Czech GGP - Masaryk University and Charles University - established a long-term cooperation on this project

6 Apr 2017

New webpage of the project in operation

This new webpage symbolize the new era of the GGP in the Czech Republic

3 Sep 2016

The GGP expanding its activities

The GGP is back - larger and more ambicious than ever