International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality I - ISSP 1987

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 reasons for social advancement (scale);
judgement on equal opportunities in the Federal Republic; attitude to
the necessity for significant wage differences; attitude to social
differences (scale); estimated gross income of selected occupational
groups and personal ideas about a fair gross income for these
occupational groups; attitude to the country´s income differences and
to various duties of the welfare state (scale); judgement on the
current tax burden for different income classes; attitude to a higher
tax burden for higher income groups; judgement on strength of contrasts
or conflicts between various social groups in the country;
self-assessment of social class (scale and 5-layer class division);
social origins; time worked each week; position as a superior; union
membership; employment and occupation of spouse; sex as well as month
and year of birth of all members of the household; party preference.