July 06, 2006 | News

The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program now online for the first four countries:
Bulgaria, Russia, Hungary, and Romania

The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program is a comparative collection of around 200 contextual variables on the national and regional level for each country participating in the international Generations and Gender Program, coordinated by the Population Activities Unit of the United Nation’s Economic Commission of Europe. As an integral part of this program, the Contextual Database complements the individual-level data collection of the Generations and Gender Panel Survey and provides an instrument for the study of human behaviors taking account of the multiple contexts in which they occur.

The database is organized around 16 central topics closely linked to the program. The variables describe variations of context over time and among regions that are believed to have an impact on the behaviors and relations that constitute the key dependent variables of the survey: fertility, partnership, transition to adulthood, economic activity as well as the intergenerational and gender relations between people expressed e.g. in care relations or the organization of paid and unpaid work. The data include statistical norms, legal norms and regulations, measures of welfare state policies and institutions as well as general economic and cultural indicators.

Data are currently available for Bulgaria, Russia, Hungary, and Romania. All data contained in the Contextual Database were collected by national teams and are subject to further completion, improvement, revision and standardization.