International Social Survey Programme: Environment III - ISSP 2010

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 the environment, climate change and environmental protection.<br>Most important issues for the own country; private
entrepreneurs as best possibility to solve economic problems;
government´s responsibility to reduce income differences among the
citizens; postmaterialism scale; trust in people; estimation of people
as fair; trust in people in government doing what is right; politicians
tend to profit from their position; personal concern about
environmental issues; most important environmental problem for the own
country; most affecting environmental problem for respondent and his
family; estimation of own knowledge about the causes of environmental
problems and about the solutions to these environmental problems;
attitudes to modern science and to the environment; attitudes to
environmental protection and economic or population growth; willingness
to pay higher prices and higher taxes or to accept reductions in
standard of living in order to protect the environment;
self-classification of participation in environmental protection;
classification of dangerous effects from air pollution caused by cars,
from industry, from chemicals in agriculture, from water pollution,
from a rise in the world´s temperature caused by the climate change
(greenhouse effect), from the modification of genes of certain crops
and nuclear power stations; preference for the regulation of
environmental protection by the government, the citizens or the
economy; estimation of the efforts of the own country to protect the
world environment; preferred way of getting national business as well
as the citizen to protect the environment; which energy source should
be given national priority to meet future energy needs; attitudes
towards international agreements for environmental problems; agreement
with poorer countries to make less effort than richer countries to
protect the environment; economic progress will slow down without
better protection of the environment; frequency of special efforts to
sort glass or tins or plastic or newspapers for recycling; frequency of
special efforts to buy fruit and vegetables grown without pesticides or
chemicals; frequency of special efforts in cutting back on driving a
car, reducing energy at home and saving water for environmental
reasons, avoid buying products for environmental reasons; membership in
an environmental protection organization; personal environmental
political activities in the last five years through participation in
signing petitions, giving donations to environmental groups as well as
participating in demonstrations;

Optional items - not in all countries: knowledge test: a hole in the
earth´s atmosphere causes the climate change; knowledge about the
relationship between the use of fossil fuels and climate change.

Demography: Sex; birth; age; years in school; country specific
education; highest completed degree; work status; hours worked weekly;
employment relationship; number of employees; supervise other
employees; number of employees supervised; type of organization:
for-profit vs. non profit and public vs. private; occupation (ISCO
1988); main employment status; living in steady partnership.

Information about spouse and about partner on: work status, hours
worked weekly, employment relationship, supervise other employees,
occupation (ISCO 1988), main employment status.

Union membership; country specific religious affiliation or
denomination, groups of religious denominations, attendance of
religious services; Top-Bottom self-placement; country specific party
affiliation; party affiliation (left-right); vote in last general
election; country specific ethnicity; number of children; number of
toddlers; size of household; earnings of respondent (country specific);
family income (country specific); marital status; place of living:
urban – rural; region (country specific); year, month and day of
interview.

Additionally encoded: Case substitution flag, mode of data collection,
weight.