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Description & Citation--Study No. 9383

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:9383
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09383
 
Title:International Social Science Program: Social Inequality, 1987
 
Principal Investigator(s):International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
 
Series:International Social Survey Program Series
 
Funding Agency:Australia: Australian National University. Research School of Social Sciences. Institute of Advanced Studies. Great Britain: Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. United States: National Science Foundation. Austria: Science Research Foundation. Ministry for Science and Research, and government Steiermark. No funding information was available for the Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy or Switzerland.
 
Bibliographic Citation:International Social Survey Program (ISSP). INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE PROGRAM: SOCIAL INEQUALITY, 1987 [Computer file]. Cologne, W. Germany: Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Sozialforschung [producer], 1989. Cologne, W. Germany: Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Sozialforschung and Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 1990. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09383
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) is an ongoing program of crossnational collaboration. Formed in 1983, the group develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social science as supplements to regular national surveys. This collection, the third module in the series, contains data from Australia, Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, and Switzerland. Questions asked of respondents focused on equality of income, wealth, and opportunity. Respondents were asked for their perceptions of the extent of present inequality, explanations for inequality, and support for government programs to reduce inequality. Demographic data on respondents such as age, sex, employment, income, marital status, education, religion, political affiliation, and trade union membership also are provided.
 
Subject Term(s):attitudes, economic conditions, government programs, income, income distribution, poverty, public opinion, social inequality, wealth
 
Geographic Coverage:Australia, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United States, Global
 
Time Period:1987 - 1988
 
Date(s) of Collection:1987 - 1988
 
Universe:Persons aged 18 years and older from nine nations: Australia, Austria (16 to 69 years), the Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands (16-80 years), Great Britain (excluding the Scottish highlands and islands), the United States (noninstitutionalized English-speaking only), and Switzerland (16 years and older).
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:Data were made available through the Zentralarchiv fuer empirische Sozialforschung, Universitaet zu Koeln, from whom a printed codebook (ZA-No. 1680) may be obtained. Records for Great Britain, Italy, Austria, and the United States have a weight variable that must be used in all analyses. No weighting was done for the Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, or the Netherlands. Weighting for Australia and Switzerland is unknown.
 

Methodology

Sample:Multistage probability samples, black oversample in the United States.
 
Data Source:self-enumerated forms, and personal interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1990-10-16
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: International Social Science Program: Social Inequality, 1987
 

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