Citation  | ISSP Research Group (2014): International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality I-IV - ISSP 1987-1992-1999-2009. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5890 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11911 |
| Study No. | ZA5890 |
| Title | International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality I-IV - ISSP 1987-1992-1999-2009 |
| Current Version | 1.0.0, 2014-5-26, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.11911 |
| Date of Collection | 02.1987 - 16.01.2012 |
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| Abstract | A comprehensive overview on the contents, the structure and basic coding rules of both data files can be found in the following guide: Guide for the ISSP ´Social Inequality´ cumulation of the years 1987,1992, 1999 and 2009 Attitudes to social inequality. Themes: Importance of social background and other factors as prerequisites for personal success in society (wealthy family, well-educated parents, good education, ambitions, natural ability, hard work, knowing the right people, political connections, person´s race and religion, the part of a country a person comes from, gender and political beliefs); chances to increase personal standard of living (social mobility); corruption as criteria for social mobility; importance of differentiated payment; higher payment with acceptance of increased responsibility; higher payment as incentive for additional qualification of workers; avoidability of inequality of society; increased income expectation as motivation for taking up studies; good profits for entrepreneurs as best prerequisite for increase in general standard of living; insufficient solidarity of the average population as reason for the persistence of social inequalities; opinion about own salary: actual occupational earning is adequate; income differences are too large in the respondent´s country; responsibility of government to reduce income differences; government should provide chances for poor children to go to university; jobs for everyone who wants one; government should provide a decent living standard for the unemployed and spend less on benefits for poor people; demand for basic income for all; opinion on taxes for people with high incomes; judgement on total taxation for recipients of high, middle and low incomes; justification of better medical supply and better education for richer people; perception of class conflicts between social groups in the country (poor and rich people, working class and middle class, unemployed and employed people, management and workers, farmers and city people, people at the top of society and people at the bottom, young people and older people); salary criteria (scale: job responsibility, years of education and training, supervising others, needed support for familiy and children, quality of job performance or hard work at the job); feeling of a just payment; perceived and desired social structure of country; self-placement within social structure of society; number of books in the parental home in the respondent´s youth (cultural resources); self-assessment of social class; level of status of respondent´s job compared to father (social mobility); self-employment, employee of a private company or business or government, occupation (ILO, ISCO 1988), type of job of respondent´s father in the respondent´s youth; mother´s occupation (ILO, ISCO 1988) in the respondent´s youth; respondent´s type of job in first and current (last) job; self-employment of respondent´ first job or worked for someone else. Demograpy: sex; age; marital status; steady life partner; education of respondent: years of schooling and highest education level; current employment status; hours worked weekly; occupation (ILO, ISCO 1988); self-employment; supervising function at work; working-type: working for private or public sector or self-employed; if self-employed: number of employees; trade union membership; highest education level of father and mother; education of spouse or partner: years of schooling and highest education level; current employment status of spouse or partner; occupation of spouse or partner (ILO, ISCO 1988); self-employment of spouse or partner; size of household; household composition (children and adults); type of housing; party affiliation (left-right (derived from affiliation to a certain party); party affiliation (derived from question on left-right placement); party preference; participation in last election; perceived position of party voted for on left-right-scale; attendance of religious services; religious main groups (derived); self-placement on a top-bottom scale; region. Additionally coded: several country variables; weighting factor. |
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| Universe | In most cases: persons aged 18 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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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, exceptionally computer assisted web interview (CAWI)
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| Data Collector | ZA-Study-Nr. 1680 Social Inequality I (ISSP 1987) Australia: Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra; Federal Republic of Germany: GFM-GETAS, Hamburg; Italy: Eurisko, Milano; Great Britain: Social and Community Planning Research, London; USA: National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago, Ill.; Austria: IFES, Institut fuer empirische Sozialforschung, Wien; Dr. Fessel & GfK, Institut fuer Marktforschung, Wien; Hungary: TARKI, Budapest; Switzerland: Soziologisches Institut, Universität Zürich; Poland: CBOS; Warsaw. ZA-Study-Nr. 2310 Social Inequality II (ISSP 1992) Australia: NSSS, Research School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, in conjunction with Datacol; Austria: Institute Fessl, GfK, Vienna; Czechoslovakia: STEM (Center for empirical studies); Germany (West): Infratest, Munich; Germany (East): Infratest Burke, Berlin; Hungary: TARKI, Budapest, Hungary; Italy: EURISCO; New Zealand: Department of Marketing; Massey University; Norway: Norwegian Social Science Data Services; Philippines: Social Weather Stations, Inc. (SWS); Russia: VCIOM, Moskow; Slovenia: Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre, University of Ljubljana; Sweden: Statistics; USA: National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago; Bulgaria: no information available; Canada: Carleton University, School of Journalism; Great Britain: no information available; Poland: no information available ZA-Study-Nr. 3430 Social Inequality III (ISSP 1999) Australia: Research School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University; Datacol, Canberra, Australia; Austria: Institute for Empirical Social Research (IFES), Vienna; Cyprus: Car, Cyprus college; Germany: Infratest, Munich; Poland: Public Opinion Research Center; 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 ZA-Study-Nr. 5400 Social Inequality VI (ISSP 2009) Australia: Academic Surveys Australia, Black Rock, Melbourne; Austria: Institute for Empirical Social Research (IFES), Vienna; Bulgaria: ProField Data Partners; Chile: ICCOM, Santiago; Cyprus: Center of Applied Research, Cyprus College, Nicosia (field time unknown); Czech Republic: SC&C spol. s r. o.; 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; 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; 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; Spain: INTERCAMPO, Madrid; Sweden: SIFO Research and Consulting, Stockholm; Switzerland: MIS Trend, Lausanne; USA: National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Chicago; |
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International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)