International Social Survey Programme: Environment II - ISSP 2000

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 the environment, climate change and environmental protection.<br>Private entrepreneurs as best possibility to solve economic
problems; responsibility of the government to reduce income differences
among the citizens; highest and next highest priority in the own
country; attitude to modern science (scale); attitude to the
environment (scale); judgement on the contrast of environmental
protection and economic growth; attitude to animal experiments in
pharmacology; economic growth harms the environment; earth cannot
continue to support population growth at its present rate; attitude
towards nature as creation of God, spiritual or sacred in itself or
important but not spiritual; willingness to pay higher prices and
higher taxes or to accept reductions in standard of living for the
benefit of protection of the environment; self-classification of
participation in environmental protection (scale); knowledge about
manner of functioning of antibiotics as destructive agent for bacteria
or virus; understanding the theory of evolution; artificially produced
chemicals as cause for cancer; knowledge of the danger of death from
radioactivity; knowledge about the causes for the greenhouse effect;
estimation of dangerousness of air pollution caused by cars for the
environment, for the respondent and his family; classification of air
pollution from industrial waste gases, pesticides and chemicals in
agriculture, water pollution and a rise in the world´s temperature
caused by the greenhouse effect, the modification of genes of certain
crops as dangerous for the environment; preference for the regulation
of environmental protection by the government, the population or the
economy; estimation of the efforts of the own country to protect the
world environment; more effort for the environment by business and
industry, people in general or the government; attitude towards
international agreements for environmental problems that each country
should be made to follow; agreement with poorer countries to make less
effort than richer countries to protect the environment; economic
progress will slow down without better protection of the environment;
likelihood of an ecological catastrophe within the next five years
caused by a nuclear accident; trust in business and industry,
environmental groups, government departments, newspapers, radio or TV
programmes and university research centres as information sources about
environmental issues; frequency of own efforts to sort glass or tins or
plastic or newspapers for recycling; frequency of not using the car for
environmental reasons; membership in an environmental protection
organization; personal environmental political activities in the last
five years through participation in signing petitions, giving donations
to environmental groups as well as participating in demonstrations;
beliefs in God; residential status; estimation of the dangerousness of
nuclear power stations for the environment; government should
redistribute income; people can do little to change lifes; people
challenge authority too often; people with money should be left to
enjoy it; people should follow conscience even if they break the law;
private enterprise needs control; all societies have inequalities; the
world is getting better.

Demography: Age; sex; marital status; steady life-partner; years in
school; current employment status; occupation (ISCO-88); employment in
public sector; self-employed; number of employees; hours worked weekly;
supervisor function; earnings of the respondent; family income;
religious denomination; attendance of religious services;
self-assessment of social class; union membership; party affiliation
(left-right); size of household; household cycle; type of community:
urban-rural; in some countries: ethnic affiliation of respondent and
language.

Additionally encoded: Mode of data collection.