International Social Survey Programme: Family and Changing Gender Roles I - ISSP 1988

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 to employment of women (scale); importance of
personal employment; preferred extent of employment of women during
various stages of child raising; preferred measures to care for babies
of working couples; attitude to partnership, marriage and marriage;
attitude to single fathers and mothers; attitude to a right for
homosexual couples to get married; ideal number of children and
judgement on selected family sizes; attitude to children (scale);
judgement on the divorce law; preference for divorce or continuation of
a disturbed marriage; employment of mother during childhood of
respondent; personal divorces; earlier divorce of present partner;
simultaneous employment of spouse/partner; time worked each week;
occupation status and management functions; times of unemployment;
self-classification on a left-right continuum; self-assessment of
social class; residential status; ethnic affiliation; country of origin
of family; union membership; personal unemployment; party preference
(Sunday question) and behavior at the polls in the last election;
religiousness; occupation and training of parents.

The following questions were also posed to married people: living
together with partner before marriage and start of living together;
extent of employment during various stages of child raising; income of
both spouses.