Generations and Gender Survey Austria Wave 1 & Wave 2

Method: Face-to-Face (personal interview) Technique: Computer-Assisted (CAPI)

WAVE 1

1. Dealing with nonresponse 1.1 Screening: Yes, by the first questions the information imputed from the centran register was checked. 1.2 Refusal conversion: Basically, the respondents showed a high grade of cooperativeness. For some items the non-resonse rate is significantly higher, but that's a respondent's decision we have to accept. 1.3 Incentives: Yes (supermarket cheque of €15,-).

2. Tracking of sampled units 2.1 Respondent contact information: Yes, some contact details of the respondent were collected. 2.2 Other contact information: No. 2.3 Cards: A "thank-you-letter" was sent to all the respondents. As Austria has a very good and recent centralized registration system (Zentraler Melderegister), we are in the position to follow the repondent within Austria. Just for verifying, we also send christmas greeting cards etc. to get aware of some emigrants etc. (the central register will give us the adresses of all respondents that have moved within Austria. So, we still cannot catch the emigrated, but we are keeping track of the within-Austria-migration). 2.4 Additional surveys: None. 2.5 Administrative records: Yes, again part of production file; Respondent-ID <= Status change.

WAVE 2

1. Dealing with nonresponse 1.1 Screening: Yes, by the first couple of questions the information imputed from the central register and/or wave 1 was checked. 1.2 Refusal conversion: Basically, the respondents showed a high grade of cooperativeness. For some items the non-resonse rate is significantly higher, but that's a respondent's decision we have to accept. 1.3 Incentives: Yes (supermarket cheque of €20,-).

2. Tracking of sampled units 2.1 Respondent contact information: Yes, some contact details of the respondent were collected. As we can follow the respondents within Austria by the Austrian central register, we should find them again. In fact we just had a handfull of blanks from wave 1 - one had died, two were institutionalized (prison, rehab) and some have emigrated. 2.2 Other contact information: No. 2.3 Cards: A "thank-you-letter" was sent to all the respondents. As Austria has a very good and recent centralized registration system (Zentraler Melderegister), we are in the position to follow the repondent within Austria. Just for verifying, we also send christmas greeting cards etc. to get aware of some emigrants etc. (the central register will give us the adresses of all respondents that have moved within Austria. So, we still cannot catch the emigrated, but we are keeping track of the within-Austria-migration). 2.4 Additional surveys: No. 2.5 Administrative records: Yes, see above.

WAVE 1 DATA COLLECTION

1. Interviewers 1.1 Total number of interviewers: 153 1.2 Number of interviewers in the field: No exact information about that. Basically, we worked with the same staff for the whole period. In November 2008 about 30 interviewers were taken in additionally. 1.3 Network organization: Centralized. 1.4 Working arrangement of interviewers: Contracted, no students, experienced professionals. 1.5 Payment of interviewers: Per interview.

2. Interviewer training 2.1 General interviewing: We had spent a whole day on GGS-training; main points of agenda [1] programme presentation (GGP, what for ~2 hrs); [2] presentation of instrument (CAPI-demo; ~3 hrs); [3] special small group training and interview simulation for the most sensitive parts of the interview ~ up to 4 hrs. 2.2 Survey specific: See above. 2.3 Length: See above. 2.4 Control of performance: Control of performance: Path following routine within CAPI; automated tests within CAPI; 5% were checked by recontacting; just 1 interview was discovered as faked. Another interviewer had interviewed the identically named father instead of the son.
   2.5 Interviewer survey: Yes, see above.

3. Contact protocols 3.1 Advance letter: Yes; two letters, one by STAT-office, the other by the Federal Minister of family affairs. 3.2 Cold contacts: (1) Letters, (2) Telephone to arrange date and time of the interview, (3) Face-to-face-interview. 3.3 Scheduling / scattering: Arrangement of date & time was within responsibility of the interviewer. 3.4 Contact history: Yes, within the data production file. 3.5 Min number of contacts: No. 3.6 Max number of contacts: Not prescribed, just recommended (5-8 times, depending on household composition, sex & age of respondent, region).

4. Questionnaire localization 4.1 Validation: No. 4.2 Pre-test: Yes. Some country-specific answers were added in the questionnaire. As to the pilot, Germany conducted the survey in December 2005, the surveys are quite identical, so the Germans "executed our pilot". Intensive checks and simulations were made regarding the CAPI-programme, about 30 test-interviews were conducted, but not a pilot study in it's formal sense. 4.3 Length of interview: 64 minutes (average mean); 60 minutes (median). Respondents were "paid" with a supermarket-cheque (€15,-). We developed a small questionnaire with specific questions for the partner and recommended that the partner should fill in this written questionnaire in another room, if possible. We had special trainings on the sensitive questions.

WAVE 2 DATA COLLECTION

1. Interviewers 1.1 Total number of interviewers: 146 1.2 Number of interviewers in the field: All interviewers were in for the whole field phase. 1.3 Network organization: Centralized. 1.4 Working arrangement of interviewers: Contracted, no students, experienced professionals. 1.5 Payment of interviewers: Per interview.

2. Interviewer training 2.1 General interviewing: We had a whole training day, where we (1) presended the GGS2 programme (most interviewer also were in GGS1)[2:30 h] (2) presented the CAPI-demo [1:30], (3) had small workings groups for CAPI-based simulation of most sensitive parts of the questionaire [3:30] and (4) had specialized training units for F2F interviewing the most sensible parts [up to 2h] 2.2 Survey specific: See above 2.3 Length: See above 2.4 Control of performance: Path following routine within CAPI; automated tests within CAPI; 5% were checked by recontacting; no interview was discovered as faked. Ex post we had to eliminate 6 cases, where obiousely another person had been interviewed in wave 1. 2.5 Interviewer survey: Yes, see above.

3. Contact protocols 3.1 Advance letter: Letter by STAT 3.2 Cold contacts: (1) Letters, (2) Telephone to arrange date and time of the interview, (3) Face-to-face-interview. 3.3 Scheduling / scattering: NA 3.4 Contact history: Yes, within the data production file. 3.5 Min number of contacts: No. 3.6 Max number of contacts: Not prescribed, just recommended (5-8 times, depending on household composition, sex & age of respondent, region).

4. Questionnaire localization 4.1 Validation: No. 4.2 Pre-test: We had several test interviews to some dozens of real persons. In addition, we held test interviews (role play) between the 147 interviewers, especially in the sections of the questionaire that were rather complicated. 4.3 Length of interview: Length of interview: 65 minutes (average mean); 64 minutes (median). Respondents were "paid" with a supermarket-cheque (€20,-). We developed a small questionaire with specific questions for the partner and recommended that the partner should fill in this written questionaire in another room, if possible. We had special trainings on the sensitive questions.