Generations and Gender Survey 2020 Estonia Wave 1

Self-administered - CAWI

CAWI (pc, tablets, smart phones)

1. Dealing with non-response 1.1. Screening: No 1.2. Refusal conversion: Group-specific response rates were monitored on a weekly basis. From the second month of fieldwork, respondents who belonged to groups with a lower than average response rates (e.g. men, non-Estonians) were contacted by phone by the survey organisation. Phonecalls were made by a small team of experienced interviewers. 1.3. Incentives: The set of incentives was as follows: i) four main prizes of 2000 euros; ii) 20 shopping e-gift cards of 300 euros; iii) 215 hopping e-gift cards of 50 euros; iv) a joint donation of 6000 euros was made on behalf of the respondents to child and youth welfare charities.

2. Tracking of sampled units 2.1. Respondent contact information: Respondents were asked to provide their contact details if the contact information in the population register was not up to date. 2.2. Other contact information: No. 2.3. Cards: Respondets have received "thank you notes" at the end of the first wave and Christmas cards in the interwave period. 2.4. Additional surveys: No 2.5. Administrative records: No yet. Before the second wave, an update of the respondents' contact information will be requested from the population register.

1. Questionnaire localization 1.1. Validation : The questionnaire was translated by translators and validated by expert team. 1.2. Pre-test : No. 1.3. Pilot : Startdate: 2021-04-05. Enddate: 2022-06-25. 1.4. Deviations from the baseline questionnaire : The questionnaire included 126 country-specific items. The description of country-specific items is available from the GGP website (https://www.ggp-i.org/data/methodology/) 1.5. Interview lenght : Do not know 1.6. Breaks-off : Do not know

2. Interviewers 2.1. Total interviewers: Not Applicable 2.2. Total interviewers in the field: N/A 2.3. Network Organization: N/A 2.4. Working arrangement of Interviewers: N/A 2.5. Payment of interviewers: N/A

3. Interviewer training 3.1. General Interviewer training: Not Applicable 3.2. Survey Specific training: N/A 3.3. Length of training: N/A 3.4. Control of Performance (i.e. testing): N/A 3.5. Interviewer Survey: N/A

4. Contact protocols 4.1 Advance Letter Information: The advance letter included the information about the aims and the scope of the survey. The letter stated that the participation in the survey is voluntary. However, the letter also emphasised the importance of each individual answer to obtain a reliable account ot family life in contemporary Estonia. The letter was personalised (it included a link to the questionnaire). 4.2 Cold Contacts: Usually the respondents received an invitation (the advance letter) via e-mail. If e-mail address was not available, respondents were contacted by phone. 4.3 Scheduling/Scatter: Scheduling was used only for phone contacts (contact attempts were spread over different days of the week and over different parts of the day). 4.4 Contact History: Contact history was stored in the IT-system of the survey organisation (Kantar Emor) 4.5 Min number of contacts: Yes, after receiving an advance letter, each respondent received five reminders. 4.6 Max number of contacts: The maximum number of scheduled contacts was six (an invitation plus five reminders)

5. Noteworthy characteristics of the data collection situation: The cooperation of respondents was satisfactory given the length and complexity of the survey.The data collection mode (CAWI) allowed to avoid presence of others during the interview, It also made answering to sensitive questions more convenient.

6. Context The COVID19 pandemic did not influence the survey as it employed web-based data collection method. Therefore, providing details of the dynamics of pandemic and measures to deal with it, is irrelevant. The questionnaire included eight country-specific items on COVID-19. The respondents were asked about changes (improvement, deterioration, no change) in various aspects of life (quality of life, health, depression, loneliness, partnership, relationships with other household members, and relationships with people not belonging to the household) since the beginning of pandemic. The idea behind these questions was to identify individuals who felt that their life situation was negatively affected by the pandemic.