Country experts

Data was collected through a questionnaire sent out to country experts in 33 high-income countries and one historical country case, the German Democratic Republic (1980-1990). Country experts provided information on all policy areas and for all years between 1980 and 2020.

 

The countries considered in our questionnaire are (corresponding experts in brackets):

Australia (Tania Penovic, Deakin University)
Austria (Olaf Kapella, Universität Wien)
Belgium (Sarah Van de Velde, University of Antwerp)
Bulgaria (Elitsa Dimitrova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Canada (Rachael Johnstone, Dalhousie University)
Czechia (Radka Dudová, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Denmark (Janne Rothmar Herrmann, University of Copenhagen)
Estonia (Kai Part, University of Tartu)
Finland (Mika Gissler, Finnish Institue of Health and Welfare)
France (Jennifer Merchant, Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II)
Germany (Maika Böhm, Hochschule Merseburg)
*German Democratic Republic (Jessica Bock, Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv)*
Greece (Dr Konstantina Davaki, Department of Health Policy/ International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Hungary (Ivett Szalma, Centre for Social Sciences)
Ireland (Catherine Conlon, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin)
Italy (Serena Donati, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (National Health Institute))
Japan (Azumi Tsuge, Meiji Gakuin University)
Latvia (Gunta Lazdāne, Rīga Stradinš university)
Lithuania (Vaida Tretjakova, Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences)
Netherlands (Giulia Giacometti, Rutgers)
Norway (Ingvill Stuvøy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Poland (Natalia Jarska, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Portugal (Ana Gama and Sónia Dias, National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Romania (Mălina Voicu, University of Buchrest & Romanian Academy)
Slovakia (Barbora Holubová, independent expert)
Slovenia (Jana Javornik, University of Leeds; Barbara Mihevc Ponikvar, Slovenian National Institute of Public Health)
South Korea (Sunhye Kim, Ewha Womans University)
Spain (Agata Ignaciuk, Universidad de Granada)
Sweden (Kristina Lod Castell, RFSU The Swedish Association for Sexual and Reproductive Rights)
Switzerland (Christine Sieber, Sexuelle Gesundheit Schweiz)
Turkey (Faruk Keskin, Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies)
Ukraine (Polina Vlasenko (she/her), Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) University of Oxford)
United Kingdom (Pam Lowe and Rebecca Blaylock, Centre for Reproductive Research and Communication)
United States (Confirmed expert)