International Social Justice Project, ISJP

^{For details on all aspects of this database, see ISJP}
 

1. General description

^{The International Social Justice Project is a large-scale, cross-national survey research project on attitudes and beliefs with regard to social, economic and political justice. The ISJP was held in 1991 and 1996. In 2000 and 2006 the ISJP was repeated in Germany (for more information, see ISJP Germany).}
 

2. Survey type

• Cross-national
• Longitudinal with cross-sectional waves in 1991 and 1996
• Representative national samples, ≥ 18 years of age
• Single core questionnaire (no varying modules)

  

3. Participating countries

• 6 to 12 countries, depending on wave
• 1991 wave:
  Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany (East and West), Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, United States
• 1996 wave:
  Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany (East and West), Hungary, Russia

  

4. Topics

a. Socio-demographics

• Respondent: age, sex, education, income, work and employment, marital status
• Partner: age, sex, education, work and employment
• Parents: -
• Children: -
• Household: age of members, sex of members, relationship of members to respondent, composition, income

  

b. General

^{Evaluations of welfare, income, income equality, justice, politics, poverty, redistributive justice, role of government, wealth, well-being, work}
 

c. Regarding work and welfare

^{Reasons for level of payment, income, income differences, income distribution, income equality, income satisfaction, making ends meet, job satisfaction, job status, role of government, government responsibility, degree of wealth, reasons for wealth, degree of poverty, reasons for poverty, redistributive justice, social standards, welfare evaluation, well-being, labour market, life satisfaction, social equality, inheritance of wealth}
 

5. Questionnaires available

• Codebook for the 1991 wave downloadable in pdf-format; from ICPSR (after registration)
• Codebook for the 1996 wave downloadable in pdf-format; from Butler University
• Codebook for the merged dataset downloadable in pdf-format; from ISJP Germany

  

6. Keyword search in questionnaires

^No.
 

7. Data available

• Dataset, 1991 wave:
  • Data downloadable in sas- and spss-format; from ICPSR
  • After registration, free of charge
• Both waves:
  • The data is stored at ZA
  • For more information on access to the data see ZA

  

8. Online data analysis

^No
 

9. Contact

^info@isjp.de