This report presents the most recent findings on families in Austria based on data from the Generations & Gender Survey. In the second half of the 2010s, the institutes of the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Salzburg - all part of the Generations & Gender Programme - realised that only a follow-up survey could capture recent developments in the country.
After detailed negotiations with the responsible bodies, a new survey was commissioned at the end of 2021 and conducted by Jaksch&Partner. As in all participating countries, the sample for the current survey round (GGP-II) was newly drawn, but the questionnaires are comparable to those used in the first survey. This means that the shifts in the life circumstances of the cohorts studied can be tracked in the best possible way.
Respondents aged 18-59 on the reference date in mid-September 2022 were interviewed. The field phase was successfully completed by 15 March 2023.
The short studies contained in this publication are based on the checked and adjusted data. They present detailed analytical work on fertility intentions, fertility, forms of partnership, conflict potential and stability of couples’ relationships, their respective correlations with labour force participation, intra-family division of labour, intergenerational cohesion, complexity of family structures and much more. Interested researchers can obtain data access via www.ggp-austria.at.