ISSP1998: Religion II

The eighth of 20 years of International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys within New Zealand by Professor Philip Gendall, Department of Marketing, Massey University.A verbose rundown on topics covered follows.Attitudes towards religious practices. Assessment of personal happiness; assessment of the responsibility of the government regarding creation of jobs and equalization of incomes; attitude to pre-marital as well as extra-marital sexual intercourse; attitude to homosexuality and abortion; judgement on distribution of roles in marriage and attitude to working women; attitude to living together with a partner before marriage and also without intent to marry; tax honesty and attitude to honesty of citizens towards the government; trust in other people as well as institutions such as parliament, businesses, industry, churches, judiciary and schools.Attitude to influence of church leaders on voters and governments; attitude to benefit of modern science; greater trust in science than in religion; more conflicts instead of peace from religions; intolerance of very religious people; too much influence of religion in one’s country; frequency of personal honorary activities in the last year in political, charitable, religious or other organisations; judgement on the power of churches and religious organisations; doubt or firm belief in God; perceived nearness to God; belief in a life after death, heaven, hell and miracles.Attitude to the Bible; God is concerned with every human; fatalism; the meaning of life and Christian interpretation of life; religious tie at a turning point in life; religious affiliation of father, mother and spouse/partner; frequency of church attendance of father and mother; personal direction of belief and frequency of church attendance when young; frequency of prayer and participation in religious activities; self-classification of personal religiousness; truth in one or in all religions; priority for loyalty to a friend before truth; anticipation of false testimony for the benefit of a friend; belief in lucky charms, fortune tellers, miracle healers and horoscopes; conversion of faith after crucial experience; concept of God; judgement on the world and people as good or bad; social rules or God’s laws as basis for deciding between right and wrong.Demography: sex; age, marital status; living together with a partner; school education; type and time extent of occupation activity; occupation (ISCO-Code); private or public employer; occupational self-employment and number of employees; supervisor function and span of control; time worked each week; income; household size; composition of household; number of co-workers; union membership; party inclination and election behaviour; self-classification on a left-right continuum; religious affiliation; frequency of church attendance; self-classification of social class.Also encoded were: region; rural or urban area; city size; ethnic identification.

新西兰国际社会调查计划（International Social Survey Programme，ISSP）的第20个年份中第八次调查，由马斯sey大学市场营销系Philip Gendall教授主持。以下是对涵盖主题的详细阐述：对宗教实践的态度；个人幸福感的评估；政府对创造就业机会和收入均等化的责任评估；对婚前以及婚外性行为的态度；对同性恋和堕胎的态度；对婚姻中角色分配的判断以及对职业女性的态度；对婚前与伴侣同居以及无结婚意图同居的态度；对税收诚信度的评估以及公民对政府诚信度的态度；对他人的信任以及对议会、企业、工业、教堂、司法机构和学校的信任；对教会领袖对选民和政府影响力态度；对现代科学益处的态度；相较于宗教，对科学的信任度更高；宗教带来的冲突多于和平；对非常虔诚的人的不容忍；宗教在本国的影响过大；过去一年在政治、慈善、宗教或其他组织中的个人荣誉活动频率；对教会和宗教组织权力的判断；对上帝的存在是否接近的怀疑或坚定信仰；对死后生命、天堂、地狱和奇迹的信仰；对《圣经》的态度；上帝关注每一个人类；宿命论；生命的意义及基督教对生命的诠释；在人生转折点上的宗教联系；父母、配偶/伴侣的宗教信仰；父亲和母亲的教堂参加频率；年轻时的信仰方向和教堂参加频率；祈祷和参与宗教活动的频率；个人宗教性的自我分类；对一神教或所有宗教的真理的信仰；在忠诚于朋友与真理之间优先忠诚；为了朋友的利益而期待虚假证词；对幸运符、占卜师、奇迹治疗者和占星术的信仰；在关键经历后的信仰转变；对上帝的概念；对世界和人类善恶的判断；以社会规则或上帝的法律为基础决定对错；人口统计学：性别；年龄、婚姻状况；与伴侣同居；学校教育；职业活动的类型和时间范围；职业（ISCO-Code）；私人或公共雇主；职业自我雇佣和雇员数量；监督职能和控制范围；每周工作时间；收入；家庭规模；家庭构成；同事数量；工会会员资格；政党倾向和选举行为；在左-右连续体上的自我分类；宗教信仰；教堂参加频率；社会阶级的自我分类。此外，还编码了：地区；农村或城市地区；城市规模；民族认同。