International Social Survey Programme: Leisure Time and Sports - ISSP 2007

The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuous programme of cross-national collaboration running annual surveys on topics important for the social sciences. The programme started in 1984 with four founding members - Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States – and has now grown to almost 50 member countries from all over the world. As the surveys are designed for replication, they can be used for both, cross-national and cross-time comparisons. Each ISSP module focuses on a specific topic, which is repeated in regular time intervals. Please, consult the documentation for details on how the national ISSP surveys are fielded. The present study focuses on questions about leisure time activities and sport.<br>Frequency of leisure activities in respondent`s free time;
main purpose of free time activities; enjoyment from reading books,
getting together with friends, taking part in physical activities, and
watching TV or DVDs; motivation for leisure time activities:
establishing useful contacts, relaxing, and developing skills in free
time; frequency of feeling bored, feeling rushed, and thinking about
work during free time; preference for sharing time with other people or
being alone; wishes for: more time in a paid job, more time doing
household work, more time with family, and more time in leisure
activities; number of nights the respondent stayed away from home for
holiday or social visits; days of leave from work; most frequent
exercises or physical activity; preferred type of games rather than
sports; most important reasons for taking part in sports or games:
physical or mental health, meeting other people, competing against
others or physical attractiveness; most frequently watched sport on TV;
feeling of national pride when respondent`s country does well at
international sports or games competition; attitudes towards sport
(scale); social and political participation; trust in people; interest
in politics; reasons for staying away from doing free time activities:
lack of facilities nearby, lack of money and time, personal health or
responsibility to take care of someone; perception of happiness;
estimation of personal health.

Optional items (not stated in all countries): The day before
questioning was a working-day or a holiday; time of getting up and
going to sleep on the day before; height and weight of respondent;
wishes to gain or to lose weight; conception of an ideal shape of a man
and a women on the bases of presented pictures.

Demography: sex; age; marital status; steady life partner; years of
schooling; highest education level; country specific education and
degree; current employment status (respondent and partner); hours
worked weekly; occupation (ISCO 1988) (respondent and partner);
supervising function at work; working for private or public sector or
self-employed (respondent and partner); if self-employed: number of
employees; trade union membership; earnings of respondent (country
specific); family income (country specific); size of household;
household composition; party affiliation (left-right); country specific
party affiliation; participation in last election; religious
denomination; religious main groups; attendance of religious services;
self-placement on a top-bottom scale; region (country specific); size
of community (country specific); type of community: urban-rural area;
country of origin or ethnic group affiliation.

Additionally coded: administrative mode of data-collection; weighting
factor; case substitution.