International Social Survey Programme: National Identity III - ISSP 2013

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 national consciousness and national identity.<br>Identification with the town or the city, the region
(county), the country, and with the respective continent; most
important characteristics for national identity; identification with
one´s own nation and national pride (scale); level of personal pride
in the way democracy works in the country, its political influence in
the world, the country´s economic achievements, its social security
system, its scientific and technological achievements, its achievements
in sports, the achievements in the arts and literature, the armed
forces, its history and equal treatment of all social groups in
society; attitude towards the relations between one´s country and other
countries (scale: limitation of the import of foreign products in order
to protect the national economy, the right of international
institutions to enforce solutions to be accepted nationally (eg.
environment pollution), enforcing national interests regardless of
evoking conflicts with other countries, rejection of the acquisition of
land by foreigners, preference for national films in national
television stations); attitude towards selected statements: damage done
by large international companies to the local businesses; free trade
leads to better products becoming available in the country; in general
the country should follow the decisions of international organizations,
even if the government does not agree with them; international
organizations are taking away too much power from the country; feeling
more like a citizen of the world than of the country; attitude towards
minorities: fully assimilation is impossible for people who do not
share country´s customs and traditions; ethnic minorities should be
given government assistance to preserve their customs and traditions;
preference for assimilation of minorities or retention of their
identity; attitude towards immigrants (scale); attitude towards the
number of immigrants in the country; immigrants should retain their
culture of origin and not adopt country´s culture versus also adopt
country´s culture, versus should give up their culture and adopt
country´s culture; national pride; attitude towards patriotism
(strengthens country´s place in the world, leads to intolerance in the
country, is needed for the country to remain united, leads to negative
attitudes towards immigrants); respondents citizenship; citizenship of
parents at the time of the respondent´s birth.

Optional questions for countries with an appropriate regional
association: knowledge of the regional association like the EU or
NAFTA; benefits from EU-membership (NAFTA, etc.); country should follow
EU (NAFTA, etc.) decisions, even in the case of disagreement; attitude
towards a powerful EU-government; preference for a future EU-membership
of the country (for prospective EU members only); country should remain
a member of the EU (current EU members only).

Demography: sex; age; year of birth; years in school; education
(country specific); highest completed degree; work status; hours worked
weekly; employment relationship; number of employees; supervision of
employees; number of supervised employees; type of organization:
for-profit vs. non profit and public vs. private; occupation (ISCO-88);
main employment status; living in steady partnership; union membership;
religious affiliation or denomination (country specific); groups of
religious denominations; attendance of religious services; top-bottom
self-placement; vote in last general election; country specific party
voted in last general election; party voted (left-right);
self-assessed affiliation of ethnic group 1 and 2 (country specific);
number of children; number of toddlers; size of household; earnings of
respondent (country specific); family income (country specific);
father´s and mother´s country of birth; marital status; place of
living: urban – rural; region (country specific).

Information about spouse and about partner on: work status; hours
worked weekly; employment relationship; supervises other employees;
occupation (ISCO-88); main employment status.

Additionally encoded: date of interview; case substitution flag; mode
of data collection; weight.