Within the infrastructure of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) and its survey, the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), several types of data are collected and made available for research and educational purposes. Data can be accessed in the following ways:

1. Microdata on individuals from the Generations and Gender Survey can be downloaded upon registration and approval. This data includes information about respondents' family and partnership life, employment, wages, social security, health, and others. The website also provides standardized syntax that can facilitate working with the data, for example, by enabling calculations of the number of household members and household composition.
2. If you do not need to download individual-level data and it is sufficient to browse summary statistics, you can explore the data freely using the analytical online tool Colectica on the international GGP website.
3. The Contextual Database provides open access, without registration, to comparable, aggregated contextual data for countries or sub-state geographical units. It contains more than 200 indicators of contextual conditions for participating GGP countries and several dozen variables for more than 60 additional countries. The dataset also includes long time series and is regularly updated.)
4. The GGP also links and harmonizes data from other sources and countries into comparable datasets for cross-national analysis. These data are available as Harmonized Histories, and access is conditional in accordance with point (1) – through registration and the signing of a statement.
5. In addition to the panel data, the second wave of Czech data includes cross-sectional data collected in 2008. Complete Czech data from the second wave of GGS are now publicly accessible through the Czech Social Science Data Archive at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ČSDA). Further details can be found in a report published in the journal Sociální studia (in Czech) and on our website.
6. On the Generations and Gender Programme website, you can also find simplified datasets suitable for teaching and training data analysis on real data from the second round of the survey. The dataset exists in two versions: starter and advanced. Both contain variables related to family, partner relationships, well-being, attitudes towards family and gender, or work-life balance. The advanced dataset also offers variables for event history analysis. Instructions for using the datasets can be found here.
   

Contemporary Czech Family project – Czech GGS-II

The project Contemporary Czech Family refers to research conducted within the second cycle of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS-II). In the Czech Republic, two waves of the survey have been carried out so far in this cycle. The first wave took place between 2020 and 2022, and the second wave was conducted in 2025. Data from both waves are available in the GGP Data Portal after user registration and the signing of a statement.

Pilot COVID study: The data collection of the Czech GGS COVID Pilot study took place between December 2020 and February 2021. The sample consisted of more than 1,300 respondents. The same respondents were invited to participate in the follow-up, which took place in April 2021. Details about the data and instructions for obtaining access can be found in a report published in the Czech Sociological Review (in Czech).

Instructions for citing data from the project Contemporary Czech Family are in the Citing the data section. Are you interested in how the data from the project, Contemporary Czech family, is used? Visit the Publications section.

Financial support for the data collection

Data collection for the first wave of the Czech GGS-I was financed by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, under the ETA Programme (project no. TL03000338). Since 2024, Czech GGS-II has been financed by the project "Czech national cluster for family research" under Large Research Infrastructures (project no. LM2024074, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic).