International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality I-IV - ISSP 1987-1992-1999-2009

A comprehensive overview on the contents, the structure and basiccoding rules of both data files can be found in the following guide:
Guide for the ISSP ´Social Inequality´ cumulation of the years 1987,1992, 1999 and 2009
Attitudes to social inequality.
Themes: Importance of social background and other factors asprerequisites for personal success in society (wealthy family,well-educated parents, good education, ambitions, natural ability, hardwork, knowing the right people, political connections, person´s raceand religion, the part of a country a person comes from, gender andpolitical beliefs); chances to increase personal standard of living(social mobility); corruption as criteria for social mobility;importance of differentiated payment; higher payment with acceptance ofincreased responsibility; higher payment as incentive for additionalqualification of workers; avoidability of inequality of society;increased income expectation as motivation for taking up studies; goodprofits for entrepreneurs as best prerequisite for increase in generalstandard of living; insufficient solidarity of the average populationas reason for the persistence of social inequalities; opinion about ownsalary: actual occupational earning is adequate; income differences aretoo large in the respondent´s country; responsibility of government toreduce income differences; government should provide chances for poorchildren to go to university; jobs for everyone who wants one;government should provide a decent living standard for the unemployedand spend less on benefits for poor people; demand for basic income forall; opinion on taxes for people with high incomes; judgement on totaltaxation for recipients of high, middle and low incomes; justificationof better medical supply and better education for richer people;perception of class conflicts between social groups in the country(poor and rich people, working class and middle class, unemployed andemployed people, management and workers, farmers and city people,people at the top of society and people at the bottom, young people andolder people); salary criteria (scale: job responsibility, years ofeducation and training, supervising others, needed support for familiyand children, quality of job performance or hard work at the job);feeling of a just payment; perceived and desired social structure ofcountry; self-placement within social structure of society; number ofbooks in the parental home in the respondent´s youth (culturalresources); self-assessment of social class; level of status ofrespondent´s job compared to father (social mobility); self-employment,employee of a private company or business or government, occupation(ILO, ISCO 1988), type of job of respondent´s father in therespondent´s youth; mother´s occupation (ILO, ISCO 1988) in therespondent´s youth; respondent´s type of job in first and current(last) job; self-employment of respondent´ first job or worked forsomeone else.
Demograpy: sex; age; marital status; steady life partner; education ofrespondent: years of schooling and highest education level; currentemployment status; hours worked weekly; occupation (ILO, ISCO 1988);self-employment; supervising function at work; working-type: workingfor private or public sector or self-employed; if self-employed: numberof employees; trade union membership; highest education level of fatherand mother; education of spouse or partner: years of schooling andhighest education level; current employment status of spouse orpartner; occupation of spouse or partner (ILO, ISCO 1988);self-employment of spouse or partner; size of household; householdcomposition (children and adults); type of housing; party affiliation(left-right (derived from affiliation to a certain party); partyaffiliation (derived from question on left-right placement); partypreference; participation in last election; perceived position of partyvoted for on left-right-scale; attendance of religious services;religious main groups (derived); self-placement on a top-bottom scale;region.
Additionally coded: several country variables; weighting factor.