International social science program
Subtitle: role of government, 1985-1986
By: principal investigator, International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
Series: ICPSR -- 8909; ICPSR (Series) -- 8909
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: World politics; Public opinion; Social history
Description: This study is designed to supplement regular, national, social science surveys in the following countries: West Germany, Great Britain, United States, Italy, Austria, and Australia. The data report citizens' opinions on the functions of their national governments and on what governments should and should not be doing. Included are respondents' attitudes towards civil liberties e.g., measures against extremism, power of police), the family (intervention in parenting, welfare provision), inequality (the role of government in correcting inequalities of race, sex, class, income, and education), and economic intervention (measures to prevent unemployment, intervention in industrial disputes). Demographic data on respondents are also provided.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1985-86. Data collected: 1985-86.

Self-enumerated forms, and personal interviews.

Survey data.

West Germany, Great Britain, United States, Italy, Austria, Australia.

Great Britain: Nuffield Foundation. United States: National Science Foundation. Austria: Science Research Foundation, Austrian National Bank, Ministry for Science and Research, and government Steiermark. No funding information was available for Germany, Italy, and Australia.

LRECL data format, with SPSS control cards. The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) is an ongoing program of cross-national collaboration. Formed in 1984, the group develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social science as supplements to regular national surveys. Data were made available through the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung, Universitat zu Koln, from whom a printed codebook (ZA-No. 1490) may be obtained. Records for Great Britain, United States, Italy, and Austria have a weight variable that must be used in all analyses. No weighting was done for Germany, and weighting for Australia is unknown.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 7,350 ; variable count: 141 ; LRECL: 181 ; records per case: 1.

Multistage probability samples

Universe: Persons aged 18 years and older from six nations: Germany, Great Britain (excluding the Scottish highlands and islands), the United States (noninstitutionalized English-speaking only), Italy (excluding adults aged 75 years and older), Austria (including youths aged 16 to 18), and Australia.