Correction of Dates of Partnership Formation and Separation in the Consolidated Wave 1 of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) Belgium

The consolidated wave 1 of the Belgian Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), which is currently accessible on the Generations and Gender Programme platform (GGP-i), has errors in dates of union formation. The Belgian GGS use a broad definition of partnership history, collecting data for all non-coresident and coresident unions. Dates of the start of the relationship and the start of cohabitation were both covered in the survey. The harmonization of the data for all national surveys has led to two errors for Belgium. First, all “living apart together” partnerships are included in the database bu... Mehr ...