International Social Survey Program, ISSP

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

1. General description

^{The International Social Survey Program is a survey held annually in about 40 countries all over the world. The survey contains different modules on important areas of social research such as religion, environment, government and work. The modules are repeated every few years.}
 

2. Survey type

• Cross-national
• Cross-sectional with rotating longitudinal modules
• Representative national samples, ≥ 18 years of age
• Relevant module-themes:
  • Role of government: 1985, 1990, 1996 and 2006
  • Social networks or social relations and support systems: 1986, 2001
  • Social inequality: 1987, 1992, 1999 (and 2009).
  • Family and changing gender roles: 1988, 1994, 2002
  • Work orientations: 1989, 1997 and 2005
  • Citizenship: 2004

  

3. Participating countries

• 6 to 41 countries, depending on wave
• All countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uruguay, United States of America, Venezuela
• For information on countries by waves see ZA

  

4. Topics

a. Socio-demographics

• Respondent: sex, age, marital status, educational background, work and employment
• Partner: educational background, work, work status
• Parents: -
• Children: -
• Household: composition, income

  

b. General

^{All the waves contain at least the following social structural topics:
Party affiliation and social class}
 

c. Regarding work and welfare

^{The following modules each contain a substantial number of work and welfare related opinions:}

• Role of government
• Social networks
• Social inequality
• Family and changing gender roles
• Work orientations
• Social relations and support systems
• Citizenship

For detailed information see ISSP
  

5. Questionnaires available

^{Downloadable in pdf-format per country; from ZA}
 

6. Keyword search in questionnaires

^{For all the waves until 2006; at ZA-Qbase}
 

7. Data available

^{For all the waves until 2006:}

• Data downloadable; from ZACAT
• After registration, free of charge

  

8. Online data analysis

^{Frequencies, crosstabs and regressions for all the waves until 2006; from ZACAT}
 

9. Contact

^{issp@nsd.uib.no}