Citation  | ISSP Research Group (2019): International Social Survey Programme: Environment III - ISSP 2010. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5500 Data file Version 3.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13271 |
| Study No. | ZA5500 |
| Title | International Social Survey Programme: Environment III - ISSP 2010 |
| Current Version | 3.0.0, 2019-6-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13271 |
| Date of Collection | 21.09.2009 - 03.04.2013 |
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| Abstract | Attitudes to environmental protection. Preferred government measures for environmental protection. Topics: Most important issues for the own country; private entrepreneurs as best possibility to solve economic problems; government´s responsibility to reduce income differences among the citizens; postmaterialism scale; trust in people; estimation of people as fair; trust in people in government doing what is right; politicians tend to profit from their position; personal concern about environmental issues; most important environmental problem for the own country; most affecting environmental problem for respondent and his family; estimation of own knowledge about the causes of environmental problems and about the solutions to these environmental problems; attitudes to modern science and to the environment; attitudes to environmental protection and economic or population growth; willingness to pay higher prices and higher taxes or to accept reductions in standard of living in order to protect the environment; self-classification of participation in environmental protection; classification of dangerous effects from air pollution caused by cars, from industry, from chemicals in agriculture, from water pollution, from a rise in the world´s temperature caused by the climate change (greenhouse effect), from the modification of genes of certain crops and nuclear power stations; preference for the regulation of environmental protection by the government, the citizens or the economy; estimation of the efforts of the own country to protect the world environment; preferred way of getting national business as well as the citizen to protect the environment; which energy source should be given national priority to meet future energy needs; attitudes towards international agreements for environmental problems; agreement with poorer countries to make less effort than richer countries to protect the environment; economic progress will slow down without better protection of the environment; frequency of special efforts to sort glass or tins or plastic or newspapers for recycling; frequency of special efforts to buy fruit and vegetables grown without pesticides or chemicals; frequency of special efforts in cutting back on driving a car, reducing energy at home and saving water for environmental reasons, avoid buying products for environmental reasons; membership in an environmental protection organization; personal environmental political activities in the last five years through participation in signing petitions, giving donations to environmental groups as well as participating in demonstrations; Optional items - not in all countries: knowledge test: a hole in the earth´s atmosphere causes the climate change; knowledge about the relationship between the use of fossil fuels and climate change. Demography: Sex; birth; age; years in school; country specific education; highest completed degree; work status; hours worked weekly; employment relationship; number of employees; supervise other employees; number of employees supervised; type of organization: for-profit vs. non profit and public vs. private; occupation (ISCO 1988); main employment status; living in steady partnership. Information about spouse and about partner on: work status, hours worked weekly, employment relationship, supervise other employees, occupation (ISCO 1988), main employment status. Union membership; country specific religious affiliation or denomination, groups of religious denominations, attendance of religious services; Top-Bottom self-placement; country specific party affiliation; party affiliation (left-right); vote in last general election; country specific ethnicity; number of children; number of toddlers; size of household; earnings of respondent (country specific); family income (country specific); marital status; place of living: urban – rural; region (country specific); year, month and day of interview. Additionally encoded: Case substitution flag, mode of data collection, weight. |
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| Universe | Population aged 18 and over (Finland: household population aged 15 to 74, Japan: 16 and older, Norway: Persons born 1932 - 1993: 18 to 79, Sweden: 18 to 79). |
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| Sampling Procedure |
Various sampling procedures; different according to country, mostly as
stratified multi-stage random sample
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| Mode of Collection |
Face-to-face interviews (PAPI or CAPI):
Argentina, Austria (CAPI), Bulgaria, Switzerland (CAPI), Chile,
Czech Republic, Spain, Croatia, Israel, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania,
Mexico, Philippines, Portugal (CAPI), Russia, Slovenia, Slovak Republic,
Turkey, Taiwan, South Africa
Self-completion questionnaire:
Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden
Mixed mode:
Belgium/Flanders (Self-completion for ISSP module, CAPI for background
variables), Denmark, Germany (CASI for ISSP module, CAPI for background
variables), Finland (Self-completion, CASI), Great-Britain (Self-
completion for ISSP module, face-to-face for background variables),
Iceland (Self-completion - mail survey and web survey), Norway
(Self-completion - combined mail survey and web survey), United
States (Face-to-face with CAPI + CAPI, phone)
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| Data Collector | Argentina: Cualitativo y Cuantitativo; Australia: Academic Surveys Australia; Austria: Institute for Empirical Social Research (IFES), Vienna; Belgium: TNS Dimarso, Brussels; Bulgaria: ESI Center, Sofia; Canada: Carleton University Survey Centre, Ottawa; Switzerland: M.I.S. Trend SA, Institut de recherches sociales et économiques, Lausanne; Chile: ICCOM, Santiago; Czech Republic: Factum Invenio, Prague; Germany: TNS Infratest, Munich; Denmark: Rambøll Denmark A/S, Copenhagen; Finland: Statistics Finland, Social Survey Unit, Helsinki; France: FRANCE-ISSP (Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique, Laboratoire de Sociologie Quantitative), Malakoff; Great Britain: National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), London; Croatia: Hendal market research, Zagreb; Iceland: The Social Science Research Institute of the University of Iceland; Israel: B.I. and Lucille Cohen Institute, Tel Aviv; Japan: Central Research Services, Inc., Tokyo; Korea: Survey Research Center at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul; Latvia: Marketing and Public Opinion Research Centre SKDS, Riga; Lithuania: RAIT, Vilnius; Mexico: Instituto de Mercadotecnia y Opinión (IMO), Zapopan, Jalisco; Netherlands: VU University Amsterdam; Norway: TNS Gallup (contact and paper questionnaire administration) and Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) (web questionnaire administration), Oslo; New Zealand: School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North; Philippines: Social Weather Stations, Inc. (SWS); Portugal: CESOP, Centro de Estudos e Sondagens de Opinião; Russia: Levada-Center, Moscow; Slovenia: Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre (CJMMK), Ljubljana; Slovak Republic: FOCUS, Bratislava; Spain: Center of Sociological Research (CIS), Madrid; Sweden: TNS SIFO, Stockholm; Taiwan: Center for Survey Research, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei; United States: National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago; South-Africa: Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), Pretoria; Turkey: Infakto Research Workshop, Istanbul |
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International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)