International Social Survey Program
The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) is an international, academic survey program that has been conducting an annual survey on changing social science topics since 1985 .
meaning
The ISSP was founded in 1984 by various research institutions from Australia , Germany , Great Britain and the USA . In 2011 institutes from 48 nations took part in the ISSP. The GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is responsible for the German ISSP surveys . Other members are, for example, the School of Demography at the Australian National University in Canberra , the BI and Lucille Cohen Institute for Public Opinion Research at Tel Aviv University , the South African Human Science Research Council in Pretoria , the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago .
organization structure
The decision-making body of the ISSP is the annual ISSP meeting, where decisions are made on methods, survey topics, the individual contents of the ISSP questionnaires, etc. The day-to-day business is run on a voluntary basis by an elected secretary who is supported by an elected committee . Central, joint ISSP funds for carrying out the national surveys, for quality control or for organizing the ISSP do not exist, so each member has to finance the surveys themselves and bear all related costs.
Questionnaires
In addition to questions about the main topic, each questionnaire also includes questions about classifying the respondents in a social and demographic background. An English-language source questionnaire is being developed for the content-related questions in a multi-stage process. This is then translated in the individual ISSP countries before the national survey is carried out. In some countries, such as Switzerland, the ISSP survey is even carried out in several languages.
The questions about the respondent's background are not standardized. The results are collected on a country-specific basis and then harmonized.
Examples of key topics are work orientations, the environment, religion, social inequality, and state and government. The surveys are designed as replication studies, so that three surveys are already available for various thematic ISSP modules.
The ISSP puts its quality up for public discussion through annual reports on the conduct of the studies. The ISSP data sets are available to the public without restrictions in the ISSP data catalog from GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences .
Modules after years
The data sets of the various modules that were carried out by the participating ISSP members are available for download on the GESIS archive page. All links lead to the official "GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences" homepage, where the data is openly available for research purposes.
| year | module |
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| 2017 | Social relationships and assistance III |
| 2016 | State and Government V |
| 2015 | Work orientations IV |
| 2014 | Citizen and State II |
| 2013 | National identity III |
| 2012 | Family and gender roles IV |
| 2011 | Health and healthcare |
| 2010 | Environment III |
| 2009 | Social Justice IV |
| 2008 | Religion III |
| 2007 | freetime and sports |
| 2006 | State and Government IV |
| 2005 | Work orientations III |
| 2004 | Citizen and State |
| 2003 | National identity II |
| 2002 | Family and gender roles III |
| 2001 | Social relationships and assistance II |
| 2000 | Environment II |
| 1999 | Social Justice III |
| 1998 | Religion II |
| 1997 | Work orientations II |
| 1996 | State and Government III |
| 1995 | National identity I |
| 1994 | Family and gender roles II |
| 1993 | Environment I |
| 1992 | Social Justice II |
| 1991 | Religion i |
| 1990 | State and Government II |
| 1989 | Work orientations I |
| 1988 | Family and gender roles I. |
| 1987 | Social Justice I |
| 1986 | Social relationships and assistance I |
| 1985 | State and Government I |
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bibliography
- James A. Davis and Roger Jowell: Measuring national differences: an introduction to the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) . British Social Attitudes: Special International Report, edited by Roger Jowell, Sharon Witherspoon, and Lindsay Brook. Aldershot: Gower (1989): 1-13.
- Tom W. Smith: The international social survey program . International Journal of Public Opinion Research 4.3 (1992): 1992.
- Max Haller, Roger Jowell et Tom Smith (dir.): Charting the Globe: The International Social Survey Program, 1984–2009 , London, Routledge, 2009 ( ISBN 978-0-415-49192-1 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ ISSP Secretariat: ISSP official statement "About Us". Retrieved November 20, 2017 .
- ^ ISSP Secretariat: ISSP Official Website. Retrieved November 20, 2017 .
- ↑ GESIS ISSP: Modules by Year. Retrieved November 20, 2017 .
- ↑ GESIS Archive