Family and Changing Gender Roles, 1994, Norwegian part of ISSP

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 with the survey, Norwegain researchers are invited to add supplementary questions to the Norwegian respondents.

In 1994, the objective was to collect data concerning views on gender roles in family and at work, division of labour etc, attitudes towards family structures, marriage and divorce, attitudes towards children, opinions on welfare benefits for families with children, sexuality and sexual moral, actual family structure; the respondent's marital status, contact with own mother, whether mother worked during respondent's childhood, distribution and disposal of family income, work division in home and spouses' work activity in different stages of the family situation. NSD and ISSP conducted a similar survey in 2002.

The Norwegian supplementary part was in 1994 developed in collaboration with Tove Thagaard, Department of Sociology, University of Oslo, Kari Skrede, Institute of Applied Social Research (INAS, now a part of NOVA), Turid Noack, Statistics Norway. Questions in the Norwegian part deal with issues such as the father role, division of care work in the family, family allowance and family economy, attitudes towards heterosexual and hoomosexual couples living together, divorce and experiences with cohabitation.