The FFS Flagship Conference was organised by the Population Activities Unit (PAU), UNECE, CBGS (Brussels) and UNFPA with sponsorship of the European Commission and under the auspices of EAPS.
In the 1990s the Population Activities Unit (PAU) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) coordinated the Fertility and Family Survey (FFS) project. Cross-national comparable data on fertility and family behaviour were collected in 23 ECE Member States. These surveys have generated a wealth of information for a better description and explanation of changes in partnership and fertility behaviour. More than 60 projects of comparative research using the FFS Standard Recode Files have been launched.
As a kind of an end-of-project event, the Flagship Conference was held from 29 to 31 May 2000 in Brussels. The organizing committee members were: G. Beets, NIDI, the Netherlands, J. Holzer, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, L. Østby, Central Bureau of Statistics, Norway, A. Pinnelli, University ‘La Sapienza’, Italy, K. Kiernan, London School of Economics, United Kingdom, A. Klinger, Central Statistical Office, Hungary, R. Schoenmaeckers, CBGS, Belgium, L. Toulemon, INSEE, France, P. Turcotte, Statistics Canada, Canada, M. Macura, UNECE/PAU, Switzerland, M. Corijn, UNECE/PAU, Switzerland.
Conference Documents
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| Final Programme of the Conference | ||||
| Presented papers | ||||
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| Paper title | Last Name | Country | ||
| Keynote addresses and Opening and Closing addresses | ||||
| Opening address | van de Kaa | The Netherlands | ||
| Europe’s fertility and partnership: selected developments during the last ten years |
Macura Mochizuki Lara Garcia |
Switzerland | ||
| Origin and history of the FFS-project: achievements and limitations |
Cliquet | Belgium | ||
| Closing address | Coleman | United Kingdom | ||
| Session 1: Partnership behaviour | ||||
| Solicited Paper | ||||
| The state of European Unions: An analysis of FFS data on partnership formation and dissolution |
Kiernan | United Kingdom | ||
| Contributed Papers | ||||
| 1.1 Changing family in Lithuania |
Stankuniene | Lithuania | ||
| 1.2 Determinants of non-formation of partnership: a French-Japanese comparison |
Rallu Kojima |
France Japan |
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| 1.3 Disruption of the first 'parental union' in Sweden and Hungary. Focusing on policy and gender effects |
Olah | Sweden | ||
| 1.4 Household and union formation in a Mediterranean fashion: Italy and Spain |
Billari Castiglioni Castro Martin Michielin Ongaro |
Germany Italy Spain Italy Italy |
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| 1.5 Impact of population related policies on selected living arrangements. Comparative analyses on regional level in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland |
Fux Baumgartner |
Switzerland Switzerland |
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| 1.6 Repartnering among Swedish men and women. A case study of emerging in the second demographic transition |
Bernhardt | Sweden | ||
| 1.7 The effect of economic conditions on the changing determinants of women´s first union formation in the United States, Canada and Sweden |
Goldscheider Turcotte Kopp |
USA Canada Canada |
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| 1.8 Does unemployment bother the young couples? An output from the French Fertility and Family Survey 1994 |
Ekert-Jaffe Solaz |
France France |
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| Session 2: Fertility behaviour | ||||
| Solicited Paper | ||||
| Moving beyond elaborate description: towards understanding choices about parenthood |
Hobcraft | United Kingdom | ||
| Contributed Papers | ||||
| 2.1 Family policies, working life and the third child in a low-fertility populations: a comparative study of contemporary France and Sweden |
Corman | Sweden | ||
| 2.2 Free to choose – but unable to stick with it? Norwegian fertility expectations and subsequent behaviour for the following 20 years | Noack Ostby |
Norway Norway |
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| 2.3 Reproductive behaviour in women after induced abortion and labor - a comparison of Russian cohort data with FFS data for Poland, Latvia and Hungary | Kulakov Vikhlyaeva Nikolaeva Brandrup-Lukanow |
Russian Federation Denmark |
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| 2.4 Greek Fertility surveys: 1983,1987,1999 |
Symeonidou | Greece | ||
| 2.5 Postponement of age at first birth and total number of children in Europe | Schoenmaeckers Lodewijckx |
Belgium | ||
| 2.6 Desired and realized fertility in selected FFS countries | Van Peer | Belgium | ||
| 2.7 Pill discontinuation in New Zealand | Dharmalingam Baxendine Pool Sceats |
New Zealand | ||
| Session 3: New approaches and methodological innovations in the study of partnership and fertility behaviour | ||||
| Solicited Paper | ||||
| New approaches and methodological innovations in the study of partnership and fertility behaviour |
Courgeau | France | ||
| Contributed Papers | ||||
| 3.1 Fertility behaviour and context effect: how to take into account? Some evidences from Italian FFS data |
Rivellini Zaccarin |
Italy | ||
| 3.2 Data quality issues in the scope of international comparison FFS surveys |
Kveder | Slovenia | ||
| 3.3 Toward a child-centered life course perspective on family structures: multi-state early life tables using FFS data |
Heuveline Timberlake |
USA | ||
| 3.4 Estonian family and fertility survey: Experience from transforming statistical environment |
Katus Sakkeus Puur |
Estonia | ||
| 3.6 The measurement of educational attainment in the FFS: comparing the ISCED-classification with information from educational histories in 17 European countries |
Dourleijn Liefbroer Beets |
The Netherlands | ||
| Session 4: Partnership and fertility behaviour as inter-dependent processes | ||||
| Solicited Paper | ||||
| Interrelations between partnership and fertility behaviour |
Pinnelli De Rose Di Giulio Rosino |
Italy | ||
| Contributed Papers | ||||
| 4.1 The impact of union formation on first births in Germany and Italy: are there signs of convergence ? |
Billari Kohler |
Germany | ||
| 4.2 A comparative analysis of the effect of pregnancy in cohabiting unions on formal marriage in Canada, the Netherlands and Latvia: A causal event history approach to interdependent processes |
Mills Trovato |
the Netherlands Canada |
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| 4.3 Differences in contraceptive behaviour of men and women in Slovenia regarding their partnership and parenthood history |
Istenic Kveder |
Slovenia | ||
| 4.4 Fertility of married and unmarried couples in Europe |
Brown Dittgen |
France | ||
| 4.5 The effects of education and employment on marriage and first birth |
Hullen | Germany | ||
| 4.6 Union commitment, parental status and sibling relationships as sources of step-Family fertility in Austria, Finland, France and West Germany |
Thomson Hoem Vikat Prskawetz Buber Henz Godecker Toulemon |
USA Germany Germany Germany Austria Sweden USA France |
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| 4.7 What happened in the seventies mummy ?" Periodicity in New Zealand family formation |
Pool Dharmalingam Sceats |
New Zealand | ||
| 4.8 Fertility and the role of family strategies: family life in Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden |
Bosveld | The Netherlands | ||
| Session 5: Research and policy agendas for the future | ||||
| Solicited Paper | ||||
| Realizing the potential of FFS1 with contextual data | Goldscheider | United States of America | ||
| Fertility and partnership change: FFS contributions and requirements for the future | Lesthaeghe | Belgium | ||