🤝 The GGP Central and Eastern European regional workshop on cooperation between researchers and non‑academic stakeholders was held recently. 📌 Learn more at: www.ggp-i.org/news/general...

❓ What explains the recent fertility decline in Czechia? 📌 Learn more about the Czech GGP team’s insights at: balkaninsight.com/2026/02/24/w...

🎉 We are happy to announce that the dataset from the 2nd wave of Czech GGS-II is now available! 💻 Researchers can download it via the GGP Data Portal: www.ggp-i.org/data/ ✨ Looking forward to seeing new research based on the data!

📢 Call for survey questions! 💡 GGP is inviting proposals for innovative, inspiring, and ready-to-field survey questions or modules to include in the GGS-II Wave 3 questionnaire 🗓️ Submission deadline: March 22, 2026 More details are available here: www.ggp-i.org/engage/get-i...

📒 Up to February 13, students from the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University can submit their papers with GGS data to our competition. 🏆 Apply now! @masarykuniversity.bsky.social @soc-muni.bsky.social

📊 Starting with the GGS datasets? 📌 You might find this quick user guide helpful: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ➡️ Find out about the sample, design, special values, and more

Just published! "Research material" - a new survey module on first reproductive experiences (timing, outcomes, events). www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @ggp.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social @soc-muni.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to Adéla Pospíšilová on winning 2nd place in The Czech Demographic Society competition for the best Master’s thesis in Demography! 👨‍💻👩‍💻 Her thesis on couples meeting online and offline, based on GGS data, is available at: is.muni.cz/th/hleov/?la... @soc-muni.bsky.social

📢 Call for research projects for access to EDUC research infrastructures, including the GGP-CZ ✏️ For researchers and Ph.D. candidates from EDUC member institutions 🗓️ Submission deadline: February 27, 2026 (12:00 CET) Terms and more information: www.educalliance.eu/calls/educ-w...

💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia. 🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social

Last week, the Czech GGP team presented at the 8th GGP User Conference in Tallinn, Estonia! We shared our research on 🎓 education and marriage, 🤱 fertility, and 💻 the analytical use of para-data. Many thanks to the organizers and participants for an inspiring conference! @ggp.bsky.social

🛬 The GGP community has arrived at Tallinn University, #Estonia for the 8th GGP User Conference!

🩺Today is International Mental Health Day 💭 ❓ Would you feel more comfortable answering questions about #mental #health in an online survey or in a face-to-face interview? Rather in an online survey? You are not the only one👇 🌐 Learn more about our data: www.ggp-i.org #WMHD #wellbeing #GGP_i

🏠 Are you curious about the co-residence of parents and adult children? 🚻 17% of men and 14% of women aged 22–30 live in the same household with at least one parent. 📊 Data from our leaflet (available in Czech only): ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/en/zajimave-...

📌 Hledáme posily! Přihlaste se na pozice: 👩🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓 Doktorand/ka se zaměřením na měření a analýzu fertilních nebo životních záměrů a plánů 🧑🏻‍🦱👩🏻 Odborník/ice na propagaci, diseminaci a péči o uživatele výzkumu GGP – Současná česká rodina 🔗 Podmínky a více informací zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/hl...

👨🏼 Nearly 60 percent of Czech men under 34 agree that grandparents should care for children if parents cannot. 👩🏻‍🦰 Among women, the agreement is 16 percent lower. 📊 Data from our leaflet Intergenerational Help and Support (in Czech only): ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/en/zajimave-...

💡 Last week, at a seminar hosted by the Czech Social Science Data Archive (@sociologicky.bsky.social), we showed how paradata can improve questionnaire items in mixed-mode data collection! 💻 We like using this type of data to explore how respondents interact with questionnaires. 🤳

🎓 The Czech Demographic Society announces the 10th Student Competition! Have you defended a thesis in demography or related fields in 2024/2025? Apply now! 📅 Deadline: October 17, 2025 🏆 Results: December, with financial prizes! 👉 Details: www.czechdemography.cz/soutez/10-rocnik-souteze/pravidla/

📢 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. 🔗 Learn more here: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/en/aktuality... @ggp.bsky.social

#dataquality #KODAQS 🎉 The KODAQS Data Quality Toolbox Has Launched! 🎉 Designed to support researchers with assessing the quality of their data, the Toolbox provides practical coding examples of quality indicators, and resources that make achieving reliable, high-quality data easier than ever.

📌 Téměř 15 % žen (18–49) má za to, že určitě nebo pravděpodobně nemohou mít děti. ❓ Jaké jsou nejčastější příčiny? A kolik žen má zkušenost s léčbou neplodnosti? 🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze. Celý leták pod názvem ASISTOVANÁ REPRODUKCE naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...

❓ Kolik žen má zkušenost s léčbou neplodnosti? Jaké metody asistované reprodukce tyto ženy využívají a jak je kombinují? 🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze věnované asistované reprodukci. Celý leták naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...

Assisted reproductive technologies - such as in-vitro fertilisation - are on the rise. How do they affect fertility rates? Read our latest #PopDigest by @jenchanfreau.bsky.social , Alice Goisis & Øystein Kravdal 🔗 tinyurl.com/2wkefabd

👓Recommended Reading📚 How is Depression Linked to Childlessness? @kailaheimosanna.bsky.social, Mikko Myrskylä, and colleagues from the @mpidr.bsky.social & @pophel.bsky.social @helsinki.fi examined the relationship between #depression and #childlessness. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

🎓 Opportunity for students of the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University 📌 Are you interested in sociology or population studies, and have you used data from the GGS in your work? Submit your paper to our competition! 📆 Application deadline: February 13, 2026 🔗 More at: muni.cz/go/867db9

#PanelData #FredaAutumnSchool 📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025! Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.

🗓️ The full program for the 8th GGP User Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, on 15–17 October 2025 is now available! 🔗 You can find it here: www.ggp-i.org/8th-ggp-user...

🎓 GGP Best Master Thesis Award Have you used GGP data in your 2023/24 or 2024/25 thesis? Apply now for the Best Master Thesis Award! 📅 Deadline: September 10, 2025 📧 Submit: [email protected] 🔗 Info: www.ggp-i.org/event/ggp-be... @ggp.bsky.social

📢 New publication with @ggp.bsky.social data!

Last week in Pécs, we shared how we work with GGS data at the EDUC-WIDE Knowledge Exchange Workshop 💡 A great opportunity to exchange experiences and deepen collaboration across institutions involved in the EDUC-WIDE initiative.

Co o lásce prozrazuje statistika? Na to se zaměřilo dubnové vydání časopisu Statistika&My (04/2025) 💓 Najdete v něm i článek o partnerských vztazích a rodičovství založený na datech z výzkumu GGP-"Současná česká rodina" (strany 30-31). Časopis ke stažení: statistikaamy.csu.gov.cz/casopis-stat...

Nový Sociologický bulletin obsahuje také text o výukových datech výzkumu Generations & Gender Survey. 📰 Čtěte na straně 90: ceskasociologicka.org/bulletin/

Amazing to see this paper using the UK GGS in JMF 🇬🇧🇬🇧 It’s always awesome to witness the extraordinary efforts that go into getting the data funded, collecting the data, and then analyzing it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

FINAL WEEK [deadline May 9th] to apply to this year's BSPS Demography Conference @bspsuk.bsky.social Strands on: 💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health 🧡 Critical Demography Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!! tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj

👫 Jak moc jsou si partneři podobní z hlediska vzdělání a věku? Většina respondentů žije v partnerstvích, kde jsou muž i žena stejně vzdělaní (51 % párů). Ve 33 % partnerství jsou muž a žena přibližně stejně staří – mají věkový rozdíl menší než dva roky. Více zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/po...

#Infra4NextGen: Webinars, workshops, online courses, educational videos and hackathons designed for students, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in improving youth policy through data-driven insights.  @ess-survey.bsky.social @cessda.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social

👩‍💻Get your application ready! 📅 15 days left to apply!

🏅 Jste studující Fakulty sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity a používáte ve svém výzkumu data Generations and Gender Survey? Přihlaste se do soutěže o nejlepší studentskou práci/studentský článek! Termín přihlášení je 6. 5. 2025. ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/so...

👩‍🏫 Part of the Czech GGP team participated in the Core Facility Day Social Sciences & Humanities at Masaryk University today. The workshop aimed at introducing diverse facilities in the social sciences & humanities and the opportunities for the users.

Core Facility Day Social Sciences & Humanities – prodloužení registrace do dne konání akce 10.4.! ⚠️📅 Zúčastněte se jedinečné události, která představí výzkumné infrastruktury pro sociální a humanitní vědy dostupné na Masarykově univerzitě. ✍️ Registrační formulář: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

There is still time to register for the Core Facility Day Social Sciences & Humanities at Masaryk University! GGP-CZ will be introduced as one of the facilities. Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

👩‍🏫 Are you a sociology or demography student/teacher and not using the Generations and Gender Survey Teaching Datasets yet? Check out the data and access it here: www.ggp-i.org/ggs-teaching...

We just published this material proposing a new survey module to measure First reproductive experience. It is now in the field as part of @ggp-cz.bsky.social. Comments and feedback for future improvement appreciated. osf.io/preprints/so... @fertdem.bsky.social @heinivaisanen.bsky.social

GGP-CZ is one of the research infrastructures that will be introduced at the first-ever Core Facility Day SS&H! Do you want to get to know GGP or other facilities at Masaryk University as a user? Come see us. 📅 April 10, 9AM–2PM 📍 Arne Nováka 1, Brno, Room D51 www.muni.cz/en/events-ca...

The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD) is still accepting applications until May 1. Attend in person or online if you'd like to brush up either on demography or R skills ced.cat/es/bcn4seaso... These are Modules 1-4 listed in the four-seasons school. I teach module 2 this year :-)

Are you a researcher using the Generations and Gender Survey data? This conference might be for you! ⬇️

GGP-CZ is one of the research infrastructures that will be introduced at the first-ever Core Facility Day SS&H! Do you want to get to know GGP or other facilities at Masaryk University as a user? Come see us. 📅 April 10, 9AM–2PM 📍 Arne Nováka 1, Brno, Room D51 www.muni.cz/en/events-ca...

Population Europe, in collaboration with the Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin & Stifterverband invites nominations for the European Demographer Award The prize honours outstanding research in the field of population studies on demographic change in Europe 🔗 tinyurl.com/4z3av6mb

🚨🚨🚨Call for Papers! 🚨 Save the Date!🚨🚨🚨 Symposium 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 📅 July 01–02, 2025 🗺️ @MPIDRnews www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @IUSSP #health #population #migration

We are seeking two #PhD students for a project “Partnership Trajectories and Intergenerational Relations,” at the Department of Sociology, Masaryk University! Find more info here: soc.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/jo... #academicsky #phdsky #sociology