ISSP2014/2015: Citizenship II &amp; Work Orientations IV
Creators: name: Boxall, Peter
name: Humpage, Louise
name: McMillan, Kate
name: Cotterell, Gerard
name: Randow, Martin Von
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The second ISSP survey administered by COMPASS Research Centre at the University of Auckland, with funding support from its Business School, and also the New Zealand European Union Centres Network, via colleagues at UoA and also Victoria University of Wellington.We were short on resources to run the survey in 2014, so this one combines the ISSP modules for 2014 (Citizenship) and 2015 (Work Orientations) into one survey.ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies. ISSP researchers especially concentrate on developing questions that are meaningful and relevant to all countries, and can be expressed in an equivalent manner in all relevant languages.Selection was via random sampling of the electoral rolls.A verbose rundown on topics covered follows.Citizenship<br>Qualities of a good citizen; social and political participation; group memberships; importance of different people’s rights in democracy (scale); estimation of political influence possibilities (political efficacy); likeliness of counter-action against an unjust law and expected chance of serious attention to people’s demand.Interest in politics; following of political news; personal trust in the political system; political discussions with friends; level of honesty and fairness in the last national election; corruption in public service; voter participation; voting behaviour (recall); attitudes to changing New Zealand flag.Qualities of being a New Zealander; ethnic vs. national identity; chances of leaving New Zealand in the next five years + reasons for this.Work Orientations<br>Attitudes towards work; importance of different things in a job; balancing work and family life; discrimination; opinions on trade unions; current employment status.Current financial situation plus changes over time; attitudes towards retirement age.Employed<br>Preference for full- or part-time employment; preference for more work (and money) or for reduction in working hours; opinions about own job plus presence of "heavy" tasks; freedom in work hours; use of past experience; job satisfaction and pride; chances of looking for another job in the next 12 months; multiple jobs.Unemployed<br>Ever had a paid job - if so satisfaction in it plus why it ended; desire to have a paid job plus worry about it; willingness to take steps to find a job; advertising oneself; economic support.Demography<br>Sex; age; marital-status; education; current employment status; hours worked weekly; occupation; working for private or public sector or self-employed; if self-employed: number of employees; supervisor function; trade union membership; current employment status; earnings; family income; household size; religious denomination; attendance of religious services; size of community; type of community: urban-rural area; ethnicity.