International Social Survey Programme: Family and Changing Gender Roles IV - ISSP 2012

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 family and changing gender roles.<br>Attitude towards employment of mothers; role distribution
of man and woman in occupation and household; preferred extent of
employment for women during different stages of child raising;
attitudes towards marriage, cohabitation without marriage, and divorce;
attitudes towards single-parenting and childcare by same sex female and
male couples (alternative family forms); ideal number of children for a
family; attitudes towards children: views on the significance of
children in life; gender, care and social policy: attitude towards paid
leave for full-time working parents and preferred duration of paid
leave; source of finance for paid leave; preferred division of this
paid leave period between mother and father; best way of organisation
of family and work life for a family with a child under school age and
the least desirable option; principal payers for childcare for children
under school age (family itself, government or public funds or
employers); family or institutions that should primarily provide support
for the elderly; principal payer for this help to elderly people; time
budget for housekeeping and looking after family members for both
partners; management of income in marriage or partnership; allocation
of duties in the household and in family matters; estimation of fair
share of the household work; decision making within partnership in
weekend activities and in matters of child raising; principal earner
(partner with higher income); frequency of stress caused by family,
work and household duties; estimation of general personal happiness;
satisfaction with employment situation and family life; assessment of
personal health; employment of mother during childhood of respondent;
employment of respondent and spouse/partner in various phases of child
raising.

Demography: sex; age; year of birth; years in school; education
(country specific); highest completed degree; work status; hours worked
weekly; employment relationship; number of employees; supervision of
employees; number of supervised employees; type of organization:
for-profit vs. non profit and public vs. private; occupation (ISCO-88);
main employment status; living in steady partnership; union membership;
religious affiliation or denomination (country specific); groups of
religious denominations; attendance of religious services; top-bottom
self-placement; vote in last general election; country specific party
voted in last general election; party voted (left-right); ethnicity
(country specific); 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).

Information about spouse and about partner on: work status; hours
worked weekly; employment relationship: supervises other employees,
occupation (ISCO-88); main employment status; education and age of
current spouse/partner; duration of current relationship.

Additionally encoded: date of interview; case substitution flag; mode
of data collection; weight.