International Social Survey Programme: National Identity III - ISSP 2013

• Main Authors: Plecitá, Klára, Lund Clement, Sanne, Andersen, Johannes, Shamshiri-Petersen, Ditte, Andersen, Jørgen G., Andersen, Morten H., Lolle, Henrik, Larsen, Christian A., Roosalu, Triin, Raudsepp, Maaris, Kazjulja, Margarita, Täht, Kadri, Melin, Harri, Blom, Raimo, Gonthier, Frédéric, Forsé, Michel, Park, Alison, Clery, Liz, Marinović Jerolimov, Dinka, Kolosi, Tamás, Watson, Iarfhlaith, Lewin-Epstein, Noah, Björnsdóttir, Ágústa E., Guðmundsdóttir, Hrefna, Kobayashi, Toshiyuki, Murata, Hiroko, Aramaki, Hiroshi, Krupavičius, Algis, Tabuns, Aivars, Kolsrud, Kirstine, Skjåk, Knut K., Social Weather Stations, Quezon City, Philippines, Khakhulina, Ludmilla, Hafner-Fink, Mitja, Malnar, Brina, Yang-chih, Fu, FORS swiss foundation for research in social sciences, c/o University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Carton, Ann, Vanderkelen, Françoise, Wolf, Christof, Tsuladze, Lia, Khechuashvili, Lili, Deshmukh, Yashwant Rao, Kim, Sang-Wook, Morones, César, Moran, Mauricio, Palacios, Felipe, Amarillas, Hecman, Vala, Jorge, Ramos, Alice, Bahna, Miloslav, Struwig, Jare, Díez-Nicolás, Juan, Edlund, Jonas, Çarkoğlu, Ali, Kalaycıoğlu, Ersin, Smith, Tom W., Marsden, Peter V., Hout, Michael
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12312; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5950?lang=de; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA5950?lang=en

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 national consciousness and national identity. Identification with the town or the city, the region (county), the country, and with the respective continent; most important characteristics for national identity; identification with one´s own nation and national pride (scale); level of personal pride in the way democracy works in the country, its political influence in the world, the country´s economic achievements, its social security system, its scientific and technological achievements, its achievements in sports, the achievements in the arts and literature, the armed forces, its history and equal treatment of all social groups in society; attitude towards the relations between one´s country and other countries (scale: limitation of the import of foreign products in order to protect the national economy, the right of international institutions to enforce solutions to be accepted nationally (eg. environment pollution), enforcing national interests regardless of evoking conflicts with other countries, rejection of the acquisition of land by foreigners, preference for national films in national television stations); attitude towards selected statements: damage done by large international companies to the local businesses; free trade leads to better products becoming available in the country; in general the country ...