Social Inequality, 2009, Norwegian part of ISSP

Erratum: It has been unveiled (KM Slomczynski, P. Powalko and T. Krauze, https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/6557) that duplicates were added to the data file under the final, technical arrangement with data collector. This has resulted in 210 data lines being deleted in the new version of the file that was published 20.09.2017.

This survey is carried out on the basis of the research collaboration in "The International Social Survey Programme" (ISSP). ISSP is an international organisation that prepares and coordinates annual surveys in its member countries, mainly within the fields of political science and sociology. The topic of the surveys varies, but are repeated at intervals of a few years. In this way, changes in behavioral patterns and attitudes over time as well as differences between countries and cultures,
are possible to be detected and measured.

The Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) became a member of ISSP in 1989 and have since been responsible for carrying out the surveys in Norway. In connection to the survey, Norwegian researchers are invited to add supplementary questions to the Norwegian respondents.

In 2009, the objective was to collect data on social equality, social mobility, welfare and cohesion, resons for inequality, attitudes towards inequality and differences in pay. NSD and ISSP conducted a similar survey in 1992 and 1999.