MOSAiCH: Erhebung zu allgemeinen politischen Fragen, sozialen Netzwerken, zur Bürgerschaft und Arbeit - 2005

Since 1999, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has supported Switzerland's participation in international surveys. SIDOS is responsible for their implementation.
In autumn 1999 the first survey "Eurobarometer in Switzerland" was launched. This survey includes questions from the Eurobarometer survey of the European Commission, a specific Swiss socio-political part and a socio-demographic part. Since 2000, the questions from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) were added. This survey was subsequently conducted annually until and including 2003.
Since 2005, the survey will only be conducted every other year and will be given a new name, MOSAiCH (Measurement and Observation of Social Attitudes in Switzerland). The composition of the survey remains largely unchanged and includes a recurrent socio-political part, a thematic section that changes every time, two ISSP modules and a detailed socio-demographic section.
It remains an important objective of this project to provide the Swiss researchers with a dataset that enables both spatially and temporally comparative analyses.