International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality I-V Cumulation

• Main Authors: Kelley, Jonathan, Bean, Clive, Zagórski, Krzysztof, Evans, Mariah, Evans, Ann, Haller, Max, Hadler, Markus, Höllinger, Franz, Dimova, Lilia, Stoyanov, Alexander, Kaloyanov, Todor, Segovia, Carolina, Frizell, Alan, Papageorgiou, Bambos, Lehmann, Carla, Simonová, Natalie, Matějů, Petr, Rehakova, Blanka, Forsé, Michel, Lemel, Yannick, Mohler, Peter Ph., Harkness, Janet, Braun, Michael, Park, Alison, Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln, Thomson, Katarina, Jarvis, Lindsey, Bromley, Catherine, Stratford, Nina, Brook, Lindsay, Witherspoon, Sharon, Jowell, Roger, Róbert, Péter, Kolosi, Tamás, Szanto, Janos, Yuchtmann-Yaar, Eppie, Lewin-Epstein, Noah, Cito Filomarino, Beatrice, Calvi, Gabriele, Anselmi, Paolo, Meraviglia, Cinzia, Hara, Miwako, Aramaki, Hiroshi, Nishi, Kumiko, Tabuns, Aivars, Onodera, Noriko, Koroleva, Ilze, Gendall, Philip, Skjåk, Knut K., Kolsrud, Kirstine, Mortensen, Anne K., Halvorsen, Knut, Leiulfsrud, Håkon, Mach, Bogdan W., Cichomski, Bogdan, Social Weather Stations, Quezon City, Philippines, Vala, Jorge, Ramos, Alice, Villaverde Cabral, Manuel, Khakhulina, Ludmilla, Institute for Sociology of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakian Republic, Institute for Public Opinion Research at the Statistical Office of Slovak Republic, Hafner-Fink, Mitja, Toš, Niko, Malnar, Brina, Stebe, Janez, Diez-Nicholas, Juan, Edlund, Jonas, Svallfors, Stefan, Joye, Dominique, Soziologisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Smith, Tom W., Marsden, Peter V., Hout, Michael, Davis, James A., Steinmetz, Stephanie, Sapin, Marlène, Gonzalez, Ricardo, Hamplová, Dana, Krejčí, Jindřich, Wolf, Christof, Scholz, Evi, Jutz, Regina, Hochman, Oshrat, Clement, Sanne L., Melin, Harri, Borg, Sami, Marinović Jerolimov, Dinka, Pedrazzani, Andrea, Vegetti, Federico, Kobayashi, Toshiyuki, Murata, Hiroko, Milne, Barry, Randow, Martin von, Guerrero, Linda Luz, Labucay, Iremae, Karaeva, Olga, Struwig, Jare, Roberts, Benjamin, Ngungu, Mercy, Gordon, Steven, Chengelova, Emilia, Phillips, Miranda, Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg A., Ólafsdóttir, Sigrún, Bernburg, Jón G., Tryggvadóttir, Guðný B., Krupavičius, Algis, Fu, Yang-chih, Aschauer, Wolfgang, Eder, Anja, Bacher, Johann, Prandner, Dimitri, Gonthier, Frédéric, Zmerli, Sonja, Bréchon, Pierre, Astor, Sandrine, Zolotoukhine, Erik, Skjåk, Knut Kalgraff, Briceño-León, Roberto, McEachern, Steven, Gray, Matthew, Zammit, Adam, Davern, Michael, Bautista, Rene, Freese, Jeremy, Morgan, Stephen L., Bian, Yanjie, Andersen, Jørgen G., Harrits, Gitte S., Gundelach, Peter, Kjær, Ulrik, Lüchau, Peter, Fridberg, Torben, Jæger, Mads, Blom, Raimo, Chang, Ying-hwa, Ávila, Olga, Camardiel, Alberto
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14226; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA8790?lang=de; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA8790?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 social inequality. Importance of social background and other factors as prerequisites for personal success in society (wealthy family, well-educated parents, good education, ambitions, natural ability, hard work, knowing the right people, political connections, person´s race and religion, the part of a country a person comes from, gender and political beliefs); chances to increase personal standard of living (social mobility); corruption as criteria for social mobility; importance of differentiated payment; higher payment with acceptance of increased responsibility; higher payment as incentive for additional qualification of workers; avoidability of inequality of society; increased income expectation as motivation for taking up studies; good profits for entrepreneurs as best prerequisite for increase in general standard of living; insufficient solidarity of the average population as reason for the persistence of social inequalities; opinion about own salary: actual occupational earning is adequate; income differences are too large in the respondent´s country; responsibility of government to reduce income differences; government should provide chances for poor children to go to university; jobs for everyone who wants one; government should provide a decent living standard for the unemployed and spend less on ...