Parity-Specific Weights for the Austrian Generations and Gender Survey
Isabella Buber‐Ennser
Abstract
The âGenerations and Gender Survey (GGS)â is an important data source for studying thedynamics of families and family relationships, it was out in Austria in 2008/09. Afteradjustment for age, sex, employment status, country of birth and living arrangements, werevealed a bias towards women with higher parities among the cohorts born until the mid-1970s. Since parity is an important aspect for fertility analyses, weights were generated forthe female sample that additionally adjust for the cohort-specific parity distribution. In thispaper, we describe the original prevailing bias and inform the GGS user about the adjustmentwith the weights for the Austrian GGS. These weights are provided by VID to theinternational scientific community and are included in the Austrian GGS dataset.