International Social Survey Programme: Environment III - ISSP 2010

• Main Authors: Hadler, Markus, Carton, Ann, Jorrat, Jorge Raúl, Stähli, Michèle E., Sapin, Marlène, Pollien, Alexandre, Dimova, Lilia, Joye, Dominique, Pammett, Jon H., Segovia, Carolina, Marinović Jerolimov, Dinka, Smith, Michael L., Clement, Sanne Lund, Andersen, Jørgen G., Larsen, Christian A., Andersen, Johannes, Melin, Harri, Blom, Raimo, Forsé, Michel, Lemel, Yannick, Wolf, Christof, Park, Alison, Lewin-Epstein, Noah L., Aramaki, Hiroshi, Hara, Miwako, Masaki, Miki, Kim, Sang-Wook, Tabuns, Aivars, Morones, César, Krupavičius, Algis, Godinez, Alberto, Silva, Yasodhara, Ceballos, Vanessa, Palacios, Felipe, Gendall, Philip, Skjåk, Knut K., Kolsrud, Kirstine, Mangahas, Mahar, Guerrero, Linda L., Khakhulina, Ludmila, Piscová, Magdalena, Bahna, Miloslav, Hafner-Fink, Mitja, Malnar, Brina, Méndez, Mónica, García-Pardo, Natalia, Svallfors, Stefan, Edlund, Jonas, Chang, Ying-hwa, Smith, Tom W., Marsden, Peter V., Hout, Michael, Struwig, Jare, Kalaycıoğlu, Ersin, Çarkoğlu, Ali, Evans, Ann, Sigurbjörns-Öldudóttir, Sara, Arnalds, Ásdís A., Ganzeboom, Harry, Vala, Jorge, Ramos, Alice
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Argentina; Canada; New Zealand; Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13271; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5500?lang=en; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5500?lang=de

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. Most important issues for the own country; private entrepreneurs as best possibility to solve economic problems; government´s responsibility to reduce income differences among the citizens; postmaterialism scale; trust in people; estimation of people as fair; trust in people in government doing what is right; politicians tend to profit from their position; personal concern about environmental issues; most important environmental problem for the own country; most affecting environmental problem for respondent and his family; estimation of own knowledge about the causes of environmental problems and about the solutions to these environmental problems; attitudes to modern science and to the environment; attitudes to environmental protection and economic or population growth; willingness to pay higher prices and higher taxes or to accept reductions in standard of living in order to protect the environment; self-classification of participation in environmental protection; classification of dangerous effects from air pollution caused by cars, from industry, from chemicals in agriculture, from water pollution, from a rise in the world´s temperature caused by the climate change (greenhouse effect), from the modification of genes of certain crops and nuclear ...