International Social Survey Programme: Work Orientations I - ISSP 1989

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 work, employment and work orientations.<br>Desired division of time for selected activities such as work,
leisure time etc.; work orientation (scale); accomplishment of work in
household; most important criteria for determination of level of one´s
own salary; perceived continual conflict between employees and
employers; judgement on the necessity of trade unions; importance of
selected job demands and fulfillment of these demands; most important
problems resulting from unemployment; preference for status as employee
or professional self-employment as well as for working in a large
company or in a small business; preference for work in service area or
in industry as well as in the private economy or in the public sector;
attitude to a job guarantee by the state and appropriate support for
the unemployed by the state; part-time employment; interest in
full-time employment; expected difficulties in looking for work;
description of personal commitment at work; preference for more work
and more pay or more leisure time; security of one´s own job against
unemployment; significance of career possiblities and flexible
organization of working hours; characterization of work as hard
physical activity and description of the extent of stress at work;
physical exhaustion after work; perceived boredom at work; dangerous
and unhealthy situations at work; general job description; frequency of
umpleasant activities; personal opportunities to influence the form of
the work day or the course of work; judgement on the relationship
between management and employees; atmosphere at work; job satisfaction;
range of control; further employment relations; time expended for
second job; company size; employment in the private or in the public
sector; union membership; party preference and party identification;
behavior at the polls in the last election; self-assessment on a
left-right continuum; religiousness; residential status; type of
employment of spouse; city size; social origins.

Also encoded was: willingness of respondent to cooperate.