International Social Survey Programme: Social Inequality V - ISSP 2019

• Main Authors: Steinmetz, Stephanie, Sapin, Marlène, Joye, Dominique, 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, Hafner Fink, Mitja, Malnar, Brina, Bureekul, Thawilwadee, Sangmahamad, Ratchawadee, Udompong, Lertporn, Struwig, Jare, Roberts, Benjamin, Ngungu, Mercy, Gordon, Steven, Dimova, Lilia, Chengelova, Emilia, Phillips, Miranda, Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg A., Ólafsdóttir, Sigrún, Bernburg, Jón G., Tryggvadóttir, Guðný B., Lewin-Epstein, Noah, Krupavičius, Algis, Sno, Tamira, Ganzeboom, Harry, Fu, Yang-chih, Höllinger, Franz, Hadler, Markus, Aschauer, Wolfgang, Eder, Anja, Bacher, Johann, Prandner, Dimitri, Gonthier, Frédéric, Zmerli, Sonja, Bréchon, Pierre, Astor, Sandrine, Zolotoukhine, Erik, Skjåk, Knut Kalgraff, Edlund, Jonas, Briceño-León, Roberto, McEachern, Steven, Gray, Matthew, Evans, Ann, Zammit, Adam, Davern, Michael, Bautista, Rene, Smith, Tom W., Freese, Jeremy, Morgan, Stephen L.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: New Zealand; Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14009; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7600?lang=de; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7600?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 different opportunities for getting ahead (wealthy family, well-educated parents, good education, hard work, knowing the right people, political connections, giving bribes, person´s race and religion, gender); estimation of actual and reasonable earnings for occupational groups: doctor in general practice, chairman of a large national corporation, shop assistant, unskilled worker in a factory, cabinet minister in the national government; concerns about inequality: income differences are too large in respondent´s country; feeling angry about differences in wealth between the rich and the poor (10 point scale); rating the fairness of income distribution in the country. Social policy and redistribution: responsibility of the government to reduce income differences, the government should provide a decent standard of living for the unemployed; Reducing inequality by market actors: responsibility of private companies to reduce the differences in pay between their employees; market actor with the greatest responsibility for reducing differences in income (private companies, government, trade-unions, high-income individuals themselves, low-income individuals themselves, income differences do not need to be reduced); government inefficacy: most politicians in the country do not care about ...