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Fertility and Family Surveys

FFS

FFS is the acronym for the Fertility and Family Surveys which have been conducted in the 1990s in selected Member States of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and were co-ordinated by the PAU. The FFS project has been largely financed by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

National FFS activities co-ordinated by the FFS project include, among other things: questionnaire design, data entry, standard national files preparation, standard country report production and cross-country comparative analysis. National FFS activities not co-ordinated by the FFS project include, among other things, sample design, fieldwork and report writing in national languages.

The objectives of the programme were to:

  • Conduct comparable Fertility and Family Surveys in about 20 ECE member countries;
  • Create FFS standard national files and archive them at the PAU;
  • Prepare national FFS Standard Country Reports; and
  • Carry out a programme of cross-country comparative studies.

Common programme documents

Programme documents      
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  Introduction and Background PDF    
  Survey Design PDF    
  Standard National Files PDF    
  Standard Tables PDF    
  Comparative Research PDF    
  Publications from the FFS programme PDF    
  Conferences and training PDF    
  Evaluation Report PDF    
 
 
FFS Model Questionnaire      
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  FFS Questionnaire (women version) PDF    
  FFS Questionnaire and Codebook (13.83 MB) PDF ZIP  
  FFS Standard Recode Files and Standard Country Reports PDF ZIP  
 
 
Standard National Files      
 
  Conditions for the release of the SRFs to the PAU FFS database PDF    
 
 
Comparative Research      
 
  List of comparative research PDF    
 
 
Publications      
 
  Publications from the participating countries PDF    
  FFS Newsletters PDF    
 

FFS Programme manager

From January 1991 till August 1999, Mr. Erik Klijzing has been the FFS Project Manager.
Mr. Klijzing currently works on the GLOBAL Project at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

From September 1999 till June 2002 Ms. Martine Corijn has been the FFS Project Manager.
Ms. Corijn currently works for the Flemish Government in Belgium.

From October 2004 on Mr. Andrej Kveder, GGP Project Manager, has been in charge of the FFS Project.

Contact details

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Population Unit
Division of Environment, Housing, Land Management and Population
Avenue de la Paix 8-14
1211 Genève 10
Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 917 2468
Fax: +41 22 917 0107

e-mail: pau@unece.org