GENERATIONS AND GENDER SURVEY IN RUSSIA: Parents and Children,

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• GENERATIONS AND GENDER SURVEY IN RUSSIA
  Parents and Children,
• Men and Women in Family and Society
• 2nd wave

Oxana Sinyavskaya, IISP
IWG, 13 May, 2008
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Generations and Gender Surveys in Russia 2nd
wave

• The Russian GGS 2nd wave was conducted by the
  IISP (Moscow) with the financial support of the
• Pension Fund of the Russian Federation,
• UNFPA,
• Russian Charitable Foundation Victoria,
• Russian Savings Bank Sberbank Rossii and
• Ford Foundation.
• The design and standard survey instruments of the
  GGS were adjusted to the Russian context by the
  IISP (Moscow) and the Demoscope Independent
  Research Center (Moscow).

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Sampling general approach

• Multi-stage probability sample of dwelling units
• Dwelling units ? households
• Households ? respondent (Kish procedure)
• Sample can be linked to the Education and
  Employment Scheme (EES) survey and to Russian
  Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS)

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Sampling RusGGS-2007

• 2 tasks panel analysis representative
  cross-sectional analysis by date (2007)
• ? 3 types of sample to construct one
• Panel 21-82 years old
• New respondents of 21 to 79 to replace those who
  left
• Special screening new respondents of 18-20
  years old

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Percent of wastes by type of settlement
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Month of interview (old and new sample)
New sample
Old sample
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RusGGS-2007 Two Questionnaires
Panel sample 2004
Repair
18-20

PanelQuestionnaire
Questionnaire for newcomers

• 70 of respondents
• Full version

• 30 of respondents
• Abridged version

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Questionnaires AdaptationExcluded Core Questions

• Both questionnaires exclude
• Activity and Education History (a whole chapter
  but EES-2005)
• Detailed data on a Ps condition
• The exact incomes received from particular
  sources
• Some value orientations
• The questionnaire for newcomers also excludes
• Emotional condition, satisfaction with personal
  relationships (children, partner, parents) and
  status
• Details of parents situation
• Monetary transfers

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Questionnaires AdaptationAdded Questions

• Pension reform module
• Demographical policy module
• Alimentary payments module
• Length of a R and Ps current statuses
• Details of accommodation
• Details of Rs employment
• branch of industry
• informal payments
• Information about credits, bank transfers

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2nd wave interview duration still too long

• Old sample
• 30 to 220 minutes
• Mean 100 minutes
• 10 60 minutes
• 25 80 minutes
• 50 100 minutes
• 75 120 minutes
• 90 135 minutes

• New sample
• 27 to 200 minutes
• Mean 84 minutes
• 10 55 minutes
• 25 65 minutes
• 50 80 minutes
• 75 100 minutes
• 90 120 minutes

Total sample 10 1 hour and less 25 1 hour
15 minutes and less 33 1 hour 20 minutes and
less 50 1 hour 30 minutes and less 66 1
hour 45 minutes and less 75 1 hour 55 minutes
and less 90 2 hours 10 minutes and less
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Possibilities of Panel Maintenance Respondents,
who agree to be interviewed repeatedly

• 55.8 of total sample have agreed to be
  interviewed after 3 years AND provided telephone
  numbers of people who can be contacted if R will
  move
• That consists of 26.7 of new sample
• and 73.3 of old sample
• Among new sample the percent of agreeable 49.7
• old sample the percent of agreeable 58.4

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Sample distribution by type of settlement
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Sample by the number of members in households
Average size of hh 2,8 persons
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Age structure of males and females sub-samples by
RusGGS-2007 and population statistics
Males
Females
Share of women original sample 64,9 weighted
by Kish 62,6 statistics 54,1
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Partnership Patterns in GGS-2004 and GGS-2007,
males
2007
2004
Later first partnership
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Partnership Patterns in GGS-2004 and GGS-2007,
females
2004
2007
Later first co-resident partner and marriage