International Social Survey Programme: Family and Changing Gender Roles III - ISSP 2002

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 family and changing gender roles.<br>Attitude towards employment of mothers and married women; role
distribution of man and woman in occupation and household; preferred
extent of employment for women during different stages of child
raising; attitudes towards marriage, single-parenting, cohabitation
before marriage, and divorce; views on the significance of children in
life; views on paid maternity leave and on financial aid for working
parents; management of income in marriage or partnership; allocation of
duties in the household and in family matters; time budget for
housekeeping and sharing of housekeeping for both partners; frequency
of disagreement about the sharing of housekeeping; decision making in
matters of child raising, weekend activities and buying major things
for home; principal earner (partner with higher income); stress caused
by family, work and household duties (scale); estimation of general
personal happiness; satisfaction with employment situation and family
life; employment of mother during childhood of respondent; employment
in various phases of child raising.

Demography: sex; age, marital status; living together with a partner;
years of school education and highest education level (degree); country
specific education; current employment status; working hours per week;
occupation (ISCO-88); working in private or public sector; occupational
self-employment and number of employees; supervising function at work;
size of household; composition of household; highest education level
(degree) of spouse / partner; current employment status of spouse /
partner; occupation of spouse (ISCO-88); working hours per week of
spouse; spouse employed in public service; union membership;
respondent`s earnings; family income; party affiliation (left-right);
party affiliation (country specific) and election behaviour; religious
denomination; attendance of religious services; self-placement on a
top-bottom-scale.

Also encoded was: region (country specific); urban-rural
self-assessment; size of community (country specific); ethnic identity;
mode of data collection; weighting factor.