Citation  | ISSP Research Group (2019): International Social Survey Programme: Social Networks and Social Resources - ISSP 2017. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6980 Data file Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13322 |
| Study No. | ZA6980 |
| Title | International Social Survey Programme: Social Networks and Social Resources - ISSP 2017 |
| Current Version | 2.0.0, 2019-8-19, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13322 |
| Date of Collection | 13.01.2017 - 07.03.2019 |
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| Abstract | Social relations and social network. Topics: People with selected jobs of different branches in circle of close friends, relatives and acquaintances (e.g. bus / lorry driver, senior executive of a large company, home or office cleaner, etc.); opinion on social justice (too large income differences in the country, differences in people´s standard of living should be small in fair societies, responsibility of the government to reduce income differences, social benefits cause laziness); responsibility for the provision of health care for the sick, and care for older people (government, private companies/ for-profit organisations, non-profit organisations/ charities/ cooperatives, religious organisations, family, relatives or friends); frequency of activities of groups for leisure, sports or culture, of politial parties, politicial groups or associations, and of charitable or religious organisations that do voluntary work; opinion on personal influence in government decisions; first contact person to ask for help in household or garden, in household when ill, in depression, in giving advice in family problems, in enjoying a pleasant social occasion with (close family member, more distant family member, close friend, neighbour, workmate, someone else, no one); contact person or organisation to borrow a large sum of money, to find a job with administrative problems or official paperwork, to find a place to live, to look after oneself if seriously ill (family members or close friends, other persons, private companies, public services, non-profit or religious organisations, other organisations, no person or organisation); frequency of feeling companionship lacking, of isolation from others, and of feeling left out (past four weeks); how often people try to take advantage and how often try to be fair; people can be trusted vs. can´t be too careful in dealing with people; trust in national courts and in major private companies; willingness to help (duty of adult children to look after their elderly parents, take care of yourself and your family first, before helping other people, people who are better off should help friends who are less well off); pressure from family members about the personal way of life; too many demands from family, relatives and friends; frequency of angry or upset reaction of important people in life. Social activities: frequency of going out with friends or acquaintances; frequency of making new friendships or acquaintances at these occasions; number of people in contact with on a typical weekday; frequency of face-to-face contacts with these people; frequency of contact with different relatives (parent, sibling, adult child, other family member), and close friend the respondent is most frequently in contact with; amount of contact with all family members and close friends via the internet; self-rating of general health status; frequency of impairments in the last 4 weeks (felt unhappy and depressed, felt difficulties unable to overcome); easy to accomplish own goals; life satisfaction. Optional questions: Friendship should be useful; favours should be reciprocated; frequency of domination of one person in conversations with friends; frequency of consideration who sits near whom at meetings with friends; frequency of contact with the person from home town or the region of origin most frequently in contact with; frequency of contact with the person from religious community most frequently in contact with. Demography: sex; age; year of birth; years in school; education (country specific); highest completed education level; work status; hours worked weekly; employment relationship; number of employees; supervision of employees; number of supervised employees; type of organisation: for-profit vs. non-profit and public vs. private; occupation (ISCO/ILO-08); main employment status; living in steady partnership; trade union membership; religious affiliation or denomination (country specific); groups of religious denominations; attendance of religious services; top-bottom self-placement; vote participation in last general election; country specific party voted for in last general election; party voted for (left-right); self-assessed affiliation to ethnic group 1 and 2 (country specific); number of children in the household; number of toddlers in the household; size of household; earnings of respondent (country specific); household income (country specific); father´s and mother´s country of birth; marital status; place of living: urban – rural; region (country specific). Additional obligatory background variables: difficulties to make ends meet from total houshold´s income; language skills: number of languages in how the respondent is able to hold a conversation. Information about spouse/ partner on: work status; hours worked weekly; employment relationship; supervision of employees; occupation (ISCO/ILO-08); main employment status. Supplementary optional background variable: highest completed education level of spouse/ partner. Additionally encoded: respondent-ID number; date of interview (year, month, day); case substitution flag; flag variable indicating partially completed interviews; mode of data collection; weight; Country ISO 3166 Code, Country/Sample ISO 3166 Code, Country Prefix ISO 3166 Code. |
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| Universe | Persons aged 18 years and older Exception: Denmark (18 to 79 years), Finland (15 to 74 years), Slovakia (16 + (no cut-off)), Suriname (21 to 74 years), and Sweden (18 to 80 years) |
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Probability Sample
Probability Sample: Simple random
Probability Sample: Systematic random
Probability Sample: Stratified
Probability Sample: Multistage
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Face-to-face interview
Face-to-face interview: CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview)
Face-to-face interview: PAPI (Paper and Pencil Interview)
Self-administered questionnaire: CAWI (Computer Assisted Web Interview)
Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
Self-administered questionnaire: CASI (Computer Assisted Self-Interview)
Telephone interview
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| Data Collector | IFES, Vienna, Austria; M.I.S. Trend SA, Lausanne, Switzerland; GfK market research, Zagreb, Croatia; MEDIAN, s. r. o, Prague, Czech Republic; Rambøll Denmark A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark; Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), Madrid, Spain; Statistics Finland, Data Collection Unit, Helsinki, Finland; PACTE-CNRS, Grenoble, France; National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), London, Great Britain; TÁRKI Social Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary; B.I. and Lucille Cohen, Institute for public opinion research, Tel Aviv, Israel; Social Science Research Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland; Central Research Services, Inc., Tokyo, Japan; Instituto de Mercadotecnia y Opinión (IMO), Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico; Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences (COMPASS), The University of Auckland, New Zealand; Social Weather Stations, Quezon City, Philippines; Levada-Center, Moscow, Russia; SIFO, Stockholm, Sweden; Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre (CJMMK), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; MEDIAN SK, s. r. o, Bratislava, Slovakia; King Prajadhipok’s Institute, Bangkok, Thailand; Center for Survey Research, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan; Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI), Alpington, Australia; National Survey Research Center at Renmin University of China, Beijing, China; Kantar TNS, München, Germany; CVoter News Services Pvt. Ltd., Noida, India; BALTIC SURVEYS Ltd., Vilnius, Lithuania; Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), Pretoria, South Africa; Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Tammenga, Suriname; National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Chicago, USA |
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International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)