International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality II - ISSP 1992

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 social inequality.<br>Most important prerequisites for personal success in society
(scale); attitude to the welfare state and social differences (scale);
chances to increase personal standard of living; importance of
differentiated payment; higher payment with acceptance of increased
responsibility; higher payment as incentive for additional
qualification of workers; avoidability of inequality of society;
increased income expectation as motive for taking up studies; good
profits for entrepreneurs as best prerequisite for increase in general
standard of living; insufficient solidarity of the normal population as
reason for the persistence of social inequalities; estimate of average
annual income of selected occupational groups and information on a
justified income for the members of these occupational groups from the
point of view of the respondent; judgement on the income differences in
the country; reduction of income differences, employment guarantee,
guaranteed minimum income and equal opportunities for children of
poorer families in university admission as government task; attitude to
a reduction of government tasks for those of low income; approval of
government support for unemployed; judgement on total taxation for
recipients of high, middle and low income; perceived social conflicts
in the country; self-classification on a top-bottom scale; social
mobility; social origins; education status, responsibility accepted,
span of control, family responsibility, good work performance or hard
work as most important criteria for establishing work pay; income
increase or income reduction of individual income in case of a
hypothetical equalization of the total income of the population;
personal self-employment and occupation at start of employment;
description of current condition of social pyramid as well as
assessment of the situation 30 years ago as well as in 30 years;
self-classification on a social prestige scale as well as
classification of selected occupations; hours worked each week;
employment in private or public sector; span of control; company size;
personal union membership and membership of spouse; religiousness;
self-classification of social class affiliation; party preference;
party inclination; residential status; self-classification on a
left-right scale; regional origins.