The fifth meeting of the Consortium Board (CB) of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) took place in at INED in Paris on 25-26 April 2002. John Hobcraft, Chair of the CB, chaired the meeting.

Questionnaire Development Group

Questionnaire Development Group (QDG), met in Paris (4 December 2001), The Hague (25-26 February 2002) and Berlin (8-9 April 2002). Over the last five months different versions of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) questionnaire, of the module-specific texts with justification and of a text on the main concepts and guidelines for mainstreaming the questionnaire were developed.

Starting from the QDG meeting in Rome on 11-12 June 2002, Andres Vikat will coordinate the work on the GGS questionnaire.

The content and presentation of the GGS questionnaire modules were discussed.

Contextual Database Group

Patrick Festy, the coordinator of the Contextual Database Group (CDBG), has invited Consortium member institutes and external experts to join the CDBG. External experts from OECD, the LIS-project and the European Observatory on the Social Situation, Demography and Family were approached.

The first meeting of the CDBG will take place in Rome on 13-14 June 2002. The draft agenda of the meeting will focus on the discussion of the conceptual framework for building the database. Links will be explored and established with the content of the questionnaire, the available multi-level techniques and the geographical coverage.

GGS Survey Design

The draft document on the survey design of the GGS was presented, evaluated and further development was suggested. The document should take the shape of GGS Sampling and Survey Design Guidelines.

GGP manager

Alphonse MacDonald, currently director of UNFPA Office in Geneva, will replace Martine Corijn as GGP manager in August 2002.