International Social Survey Programme: Citizenship - ISSP 2004

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 citizenship and society.<br>Qualities of a good citizen; attitude toward the right of
public meetings for religious extremists, people who want to overthrow
the government by force, or people prejudiced against any racial or
ethnic group; social and political participation; memberships;
importance of different people`s rights in democracy (scale);
estimation of political influence possibilities (political efficacy);
likeliness of counter-action against an unjust law and expected chance
of serious attention to people`s demand; interest in politics; personal
trust in politicians and people; political discussions with friends;
opinion leadership in politics; national sovereignty and attitude to
international organisations; attitude to the action of political
parties; real policy choice between parties; attitude toward a
referendum; level of honesty and fairness in the last national
election; commitment to serve people and likeliness to correct own
mistakes in public service; corruption in public service; functioning
of democracy at present, in the past and in the future; frequencies of
media use; respect for people and tolerance in case of disagreement;
self-description of the habitation (residence); voter participation;
voting behaviour (recall).

Demography: Sex; age; marital-status; steady life-partner; education;
current employment status; hours worked weekly; occupation (ISCO 1988);
working for private or public sector or selfemployed; if selfemployed:
number of employees; supervisor function; trade union membership;
current employment status (ISCO 1988); earnings; family income;
household size; household composition; party affiliation; participation
in last election; religious denomination; attendance of religious
services; self-placement on a top-bottom scale; region; size of
community; type of community: urban-rural area; ethnicity, nationality
and family-origin.

Additionally coded: administrative mode of data-collection.