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The UK Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is conducted by the University of Southampton and the survey agency NatCen Social Research. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 

The GGS is one of the main outputs of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), an international research infrastructure supported by the European Commission. The GGP aims to understand how individuals and families have been changing over the past two decades. A multi-institutional Consortium Board developed the questionnaire, keeping in mind international comparability.

The UK GGS is a nationally representative online survey that has collected information from around 7,000 respondents aged 18-59. The sampling design uses a sampling framework based on Postcode Address files (PAF). Weights are available with the data.

Further information may be found on the Centre for Population Change Generations and Gender Survey webpage.

The GGS addresses emerging social challenges, such as life-course inequalities; economic uncertainty; gender equality and work-family balance; well-being; and fertility intentions. One of the key features is the collection of complete fertility and partnership histories and detailed information about parents’ contact with non-residential children. In addition, the survey includes UK-specific questions on housing, ethnicity, and Brexit.