Work Orientations (ISSP 1997) - Czech Republic

The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies. In the Czech Republic it was organised in the frame of the Social Trends research project, which was sponsored by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. The ISSP module covered following topics: 1: General attitudes to work and leisure: work vs. Leisure, work ethic, work and personality, effects of unemployment. 2. Work organisation: self-employment, private vs. State sector, getting ahead. 3. Collective interests: trade unions. 4. Social inequality. Beside the module on Work Orientations II, the questionnaire also included questions about changes in respondents’ work after 1989, factors resulting into income inequality, specific questions about getting ahead, and demographic characteristics of the respondent. Demographic characteristics are in Czech-specific form.