Citation  | ISSP Research Group (2017): International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality IV - ISSP 2009. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5400 Data file Version 4.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12777 |
| Study No. | ZA5400 |
| Title | International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality IV - ISSP 2009 |
| Current Version | 4.0.0, 2017-5-23, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12777 |
| Date of Collection | 08.02.2008 - 16.01.2012 |
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| Abstract | Social inequality. Themes: Importance of social background, merit, discrimination, corruption and good relations as prerequisites for success in society (wealthy family, well-educated parents, good education, ambitions, hard working, knowing the right people, political connections, giving bribes, person´s race and religion, gender); attitude towards equality of educational opportunity in one´s country (corruption as criteria for social mobility, only students from the best secondary schools have a good chance to obtain a university education, only rich people can afford the costs of attending university, same chances for everyone to enter university, regardless of gender, ethnicity or social background); opinion about own salary: actual occupational earning is adequate; estimation of actual and reasonable earnings for occupational groups: doctor, chairman of a large national corporation, shop assistant, unskilled worker in a factory, cabinet minister in the national government; income differences are too large in the respondent´s country; responsibility of government to reduce income differences; government should provide a decent standard of living for the unemployed and spend less on benefits for poor people; demand for higher taxes for people with high incomes; opinion on taxes for people with high income; justification of better medical supply and better education for people with higher income; perception of class conflicts between social groups in the country (poor and rich people, working class and middle class, management and workers, people at the top of society and people at the bottom); self-assessment and assessment of the family the respondent grew up in on a top-bottom-scale; social position compared to father (social mobility); salary criteria (scale: responsibility, education, needed support for family and children, quality of job performance or hard work at the job); feeling of a just payment; characterisation of the actual and the desired social system of the country, measured by classification on pyramid diagrams (image of society). Demography: sex; age; marital status; steady life partner; years of schooling; highest education level; country specific education and degree; current employment status (respondent and partner); hours worked weekly; occupation (ISCO 1988) (respondent and partner); supervising function at work; working for private or public sector or self-employed (respondent and partner); if self-employed: number of employees; trade union membership; earnings of respondent (country specific); family income (country specific); size of household; household composition; party affiliation (left-right); country specific party affiliation; participation in last election; religious denomination; religious main groups; attendance of religious services; self-placement on a top-bottom scale; region (country specific); size of community (country specific); type of community: urban-rural area; country of origin or ethnic group affiliation; occupation status and profession of respondent´s father and mother during the youth of the respondent (ISCO 88); number of books in the parental home during the youth of the respondent (cultural resources); occupational status and profession in the first job and the current job (ISCO 88 and working type); self-assessment of the social class; estimated amount of family wealth (monetary value of assets); work orientation: self-characterisation at this time and in the youth of the respondent concerning his performance at work respectively at school. Additionally coded: administrative mode of data-collection; weighting factor; case substitution. |
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| Universe | Persons aged 18 and older (Finland: 15-74, Italy, Japan: 16 and older, Norway: 19-80, Sweden: 17-79) |
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Sampling procedures differ for the individual countries: partly simple,
partly multi-stage stratified random samples
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Mode of interview differs for the individual countries: partly
face-to-face interviews (partly CAPI) with standardized questionnaire,
partly paper and pencil and postal survey
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| Data Collector | Argentina: Cualitativo y Cuantitativo; Australia: Academic Surveys Australia, Black Rock, Melbourne; Austria: Institute for Empirical Social Research (IFES), Vienna; Bulgaria: ProField Data Partners; Chile: ICCOM, Santiago; China: ACSR-Millward Brown; Croatia: Institute for Social Research, Zagreb; Cyprus: Center of Applied Research, Cyprus College, Nicosia (field time unknown); Czech Republic: SC&C spol. s r. o.; Denmark: SFI SURVEY, Copenhagen; Estonia: Turu-uuringute AS; Flanders (Belgium): TNS Dimarso, Brussels; Finland: Statistics Finland, Social Survey Unit, Helsinki; France: FRANCE-ISSP (Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique, Laboratoire de Sociologie Quantitative), Malakoff; Germany: TNS Infratest, München; Great Britain: National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), London; Hungary: TÁRKI Social Research Institute, Budapest; Iceland: The Social Science Research Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavík; Israel: B.I. and Lucille Cohen, Institute for public opinion research, Tel Aviv; Italy: Marker S.r.l., Mestre (Venice); Japan: Central Research Services, Tokyo; Latvia: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia; Lithuania: RAIT, Ltd., Market Analysis and Research Group, Vilnius; New Zealand: Department of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North; Norway: Statistics Norway; Philippines: Social Weather Stations, Quezon City; Poland: Public Opinion Research Center (CBOS), Warsaw; Portugal: Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa; Russia: Analytic Levada Center ( Levada-Center), Moscow; Slovakian Republic: FOCUS, Bratislava; Slovenia: Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre (CJMMK), University of Ljubljana; South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), Pretoria; South Korea: Survey Research Center at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea; Spain: INTERCAMPO, Madrid; Sweden: SIFO Research and Consulting , Stockholm; Switzerland: MIS Trend, Lausanne; Taiwan: Center for Survey Research, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei; Turkey: Infakto Research Workshop, Istanbul; Ukraine: Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), Kiev; USA: National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Chicago; Venezuela: Instituto DELPHOS, Caracas |
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International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)