Citation  | ISSP Research Group (2002): International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality III - ISSP 1999. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA3430 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.3430 |
| Study No. | ZA3430 |
| Title | International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality III - ISSP 1999 |
| Current Version | 1.0.0, 2010-4-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.3430 (Publication Year 2002) |
| Date of Collection | 10.1998 - 09.2001 |
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| Abstract | Attitude to social inequality. Topics: Social background and good relations as most important prerequisites for success in the society; most important criteria for social mobility (scale: personal effort, intelligence or corruption); reasons for and acceptance of social inequality; Self-assessment of payment suitable for performance; estimation of actual and adequate monthly income for occupational groups; responsibility of government to reduce income differences; attitude to a progressive tax rate; assessment of the economic differences between poor and rich countries; attitude towards compensation by additional taxes in the wealthy countries (Redistribution); justification of better medical supply and better education for people with higher income; assumption of conflicts between social groups in the country; self-assessment on a top-bottom-scale and expectation of the individual level in 10 years; social mobility; criteria for the classification of payment for work (scale: responsibility, education, supervisor function, needed support for family and children or quality of job performance); feeling of a just payment; characterisation of the actual and the desired social system of the country, measured by classification on pyramid diagrams; Self-assessment of the respondent as well as classification of an unskilled factory worker and a chairman of a large corporation on a top-bottom-scale; number of books in the parental home in the respondent’s youth. Demography: Age; gender; living together with a partner; marital status; school education; denomination; occupation status; profession (ISCO code); occupation in the public sector; autonomy; working hours per week; net income of the respondent; supervisor function; occupation status as well as profession and supervisor function of the partner; household structure; family income; size of household; city size; region; unemployment within the last few years and duration of unemployment; religiousness; frequency of church attendance; forms of the faith in God; Self-assessment of the social class; union membership; party preference; participation in elections; living situation and living status; in some countries: ethnic membership of the respondent. |
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| Universe | Age: 18 years old and older |
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Sampling procedures differ for the individual countries: Partly simple,
partly multi-stage stratified random samples
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Oral and paper and pencil interviews with standardised questionnaire
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| Data Collector | Australia: Research School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University; Datacol, Canberra; Austria: Institute for Empirical Social Research (IFES), Vienna; Cyprus: Car, Cyprus college; Germany: Infratest, Munich; Hungary: TÁRKI RT; Norway: Opinion AS; Philippines_ Social Weather Stations; Poland: Public Opinion Research Center; Portugal: Instituto Nacional de Estatística; Russia: VCIOM, Moskow; Slovenia: Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre (CJMMK), Ljubljana; Spain: INTERCAMPO; Sweden: SIFO; USA: National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago; Bulgaria: no information available; Canada: Carleton University Survey Center, Ottawa; Chile: Centro de Estudios Públicos (CEP), Santiago; Czech Republic: STEM, Center for Empirical Studies, Prague; France: no information available; Great Britain: National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), London; Hungary: TARKI, Budapest; Israel: no information available; Japan: NHK, Tokyo; Latvia: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia; New Zealand: Department of Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North; Norway: Opinion AS; Philippines: Social Weather Stations, Quezon City; Portugal: Instítúto Nacional de Estatistica; Slovakia: no information available |
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International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)