ISSP 90 - Preface - Role of Government II - ZA No. 1950

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An Introduction to the ISSP





The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a voluntary

grouping of study teams in eleven nations (soon to become

thirteen or fourteen), each of which undertakes to run a short,

annual self-completion survey containing an agreed set of

questions asked of a probability-based, nation-wide sample of

adults. The topics change from year to year by agreement, with

a view to replication every five years or so. The questions

themselves are developed by subgroups and then thrashed out at

an annual meeting attended by representatives of each national

team. At the last meeting in May 1989, in London, there were 29

participants from the 11 national teams, including

representatives of the ISSP's 'official' data archive, the

Zentralarchiv at the University of Cologne. A constitution of

sorts has now been adopted by members of the ISSP. It contains,

for instance, rules of entry for new members and

responsibilities of membership. The primary duty of each member

is, of course, to run every annual module (or at least nearly

every one) in the agreed format. But there are no central funds

for the ISSP: each national team covers the costs of its own

piloting, fieldwork, data preparation, travel to meetings and so

on. Since the ISSP has agreed to use one language for drafting

and for meetings - (British) English -  there are no central

translation costs.



Improbable as it may seem, this general formula has worked well

so far. The annual questionnaires for instance (contrary to all

advice and experience) have actually been designed for the most

part in committee, and though inevitably flawed, are no less

successful than most. Admittedly, this success owes a lot to

careful prior development work by drafting groups and to

subsequent adjustments after piloting. In any event, fascinating

data are already beginning to emerge.



A fuller treatment than is given here, of the results generated

so far by the series, is to be provided in the first ISSP

Report, a book funded by the European Cultural Foundation and

due to be published by the Netherlands Social and Cultural

Planning Bureau (SCP) in 1990.



As may by now be apparent, the ISSP has grown and developed

somewhat haphazardly, and this pattern shows every sign of

continuing as long as it seems to work. The ISSP certainly came

into life without much serious planning, having emerged as a

vague idea during an impromptu meeting the two of us in 1983

whose purpose was primarily to exchange experiences and explore

opportunities for borrowing each other's questions.



At that stage, the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS) was

still in its first year, but had just received news that it was

to be given at least a four-year life span through the

generosity of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. The US

General Social Survey (GSS), in contrast, was some 12 years old

and had already acted as something of a role-model for other

national series, including the BSAS itself, the West German

Allgemeine Bevoelkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften

(ALLBUS) (started in 1980) and the Australian National Social

Science Survey (NSSS) (which was about to take its first

fieldwork round).



As is usual at such meetings, we were bemoaning the fact that

survey questions are poor travellers, especially across national

and cultural boundaries. The BSAS, for instance, despite

intentions to the contrary, had managed to transplant only one

or two questions directly from the GSS. The West German ALLBUS

contained a few more replications as a result of a  specific

bilateral agreement with the GSS. But a long-standing problem

for all national time-series of this sort was, and is, that the

concern for a year-by-year comparability within a country is

often in conflict with a concern of comparability between

countries. Since funding is almost from national sources, the

choice both of topics and of question-wording tends to reflect

national rather than cross-national priorities.



So the conclusion we reached in 1983 was that the ideal way of

securing a greater element of cross-national comparability

should probably be via a standardised bolt-on supplementary

questionnaire designed specifically for that purpose. With this

in mind, SCPR sought and obtained a small grant from the

Nuffield Foundation for convening a meeting (and then another)

between representatives of the other three national social

attitudes surveys which we already had some contact - those in

Australia, West Germany, and the USA. There, the idea of a

bolt-on, mutually-designed series of supplementary

questionnaires could be aired and, perhaps, taken further.



As it turned out, the idea was warmly received by all four

groups, who also decided that these supplements should be in a

self-completion format, primarily for reasons of cost and to

avoid adding to the already long, personal interviews. At the

following meeting, the first bolt-on module, on the role of

government, was developed and scheduled for fielding in 1985.



It was later translated into American English, Australian

English and German to obtain functionally-equivalent rather than

identical wordings. Although we were not quite aware of it at

the time, the ISSP had effectively started. Since then, several

other modules have been designed and fielded, the membership has

grown threefold, and the structure has become a bit more

bureaucratic, but not (yet) unduly so.









Exerpt from:

James A. Davis and Roger Jowell:

Measuring national differences, in:

Jowell, R., Witherspoon, S., Brook, L.:

British Social Attitudes - special international report;

6th report, pp. 2f., Oxford 1989.







Study descriptions





To differentiate countries in the crosstabulations within this

codebook we have decided to use the international automobile

identification codes:







      AUS  -     Australia

      D(W) -     West Germany

      D(E) -     East Germany

      GB   -     Great Britain

      NIRL -     Northern Ireland

      USA  -     United States of America

      H    -     Hungary

      NL   -     Netherlands

      I    -     Italy

      IRL  -     Ireland

      N    -     Norway

      IL   -     Israel

Study description: Australia



Study-Title:           National Social Science Survey (NSSS) 1990

                       Election Panel Survey



Fieldwork Dates:       March to July 1990



Principal

Investigators:         Jonathan Kelley, Clive Bean, Mariah Evans



Sample Type:           Panel of respondents from the earlier NSSS

                       'Family' survey, conducted in late 1989-early

                       1990. This was a simple random sample covering

                       the whole of Australia, drawn from the

                       (compulsory) Australian federal electoral rolls

                       by the Australian Electoral Commission. Potential

                       respondents were eligible for inclusion in the

                       sample if they had completed the Family survey

                       and were still contactable at the same address.

                       The simple random sampling method means that

                       standard statistical tests are appropriate (i.e.,

                       without the downward adjustment of effective

                       sample size appropriate for the clustered sample

                       designs usual in face-to-face interviews).



Fieldwork

Institute:             NSSS, Research School of Social Sciences,

                       Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian

                       National University, in conjunction with Datacol



Fieldwork

Methods:               Self-completion questionnaire mailed out to

                       respondents and returned by reply-paid mail.

                       Potential non-respondents were pursued by up to

                       two follow-up mailings.



Context of ISSP

questionnaire:         Part of NSSS 1990 Election Panel Survey

                       (final section of the questionnaire)



Sample Size:           2398 - ISSP



Response Rates:

                       3730   A - Total issued - total sample

                       879    B - Ineligible - out of scope

                       2851   C - (=A - B) Total eligible (in scope

                              sample)

                       2398   D - Total ISSP questionnaires received

                              E - (=C - D; F + G + H)

                        347   F - Refusals

                              G - Non-contact

                        106   H - Other (valid questionnaires received

                              without information necessary to link panel

                              respondents to background data form earlier

                              wave of the survey)



Language:                     English



Weighted:              No

"Comparison with National Population Characteristics: Australia



                       Source 1      Source 2

                       Census        ROG II

                       1986          1990



Male                   49.1 %        51.7 %

Female                 50.9 %        48.3 %

(N)                                  (2279)





Age Groups



20 - 24                12.0 %        8.1 %

25 - 34                23.8 %        21.3 %

35 - 44                20.9 %        22.5 %

45 - 54                14.4 %        17.2 %

55 - 59                 6.9 %        7.2 %

60 - 64                 6.6 %        8.2 %

65 +                   15.5 %        15.4 %

(N)                                  (2279)





Age left School



under 13/none           3.7 %        1.6 %

13 years old            3.0 %        1.5 %

14 years old           18.1 %        14.6 %

15 years old           25.6 %        24.0 %

16 years old           21.4 %        22.7 %

17 years old           15.5 %        21.8 %

18 years old            9.0 %        10.5 %

19 and over             3.5 %         3.0 %

Still at

school                  0.1 %         0.1 %

(N)                                  (2232)



Characteristics of National Population Statistics: Census 1986



                       Source 1      Source 2

                       Census        ROG II

                       1986          1990



Managers               12.9 %        13.5 %

Professionals          13.1 %        21.0 %

Para-

professional            7.0 %        12.2 %

Tradespersons          15.2 %        11.4 %

Clerks                 17.4 %        16.6 %

Sales and personal

services               11.3 %         9.3 %

Plant and machine

operators               8.6 %         7.3 %

Labourers and

related

workers                14.2 %         8.8 %

(N)                                  (1254)





Labour Force

Status



Wage/salary

earner                 46.7 %        52.0 %

Self-employed/

employer               10.0 %         8.0 %

Unpaid helper           0.5 %         0.4 %

Unemployed              5.0 %         2.1 %

Not in labour

force                  37.7 %        37.5 %

(N)                                  (2017)

Study description: West Germany



Study-Title:           ALLBUS 1990



Fieldwork Dates:       March, 12 to May, 25, 1990



Principal

Investigator:          ZUMA - ZA



Sample Type:           Address Random with a multi-stage design of

                       German adults aged 18  years and older in private

                       households



Fieldwork Institute    INFAS



Fieldwork Methods:     Self-completion questionnaire as 'drop off'





Context of ISSP

questionnaire:         ALLBUS 1990



Sample Size:           2812 - ISSP



Response Rates:

                       5204   A - Total issued - total sample

                        150   B - Ineligible

                       5054   C - (=A - B) Total eligible (in scope

                              sample) main survey ALLBUS)

                       1991   D - Non-responses

                       3051   E - Valid responses (interviews)

                       2812     - Total ISSP questionnaires received

                        239   F - Refusals



Language               German



Weighted               No



Literature:            Wasmer, Martina, Koch, Achim, and Wiedenbeck,

                       Michael: Methodenbericht zur "Allgemeinen

                       Bevoelkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften"

                       (ALLBUS) 1990

Comparison with National Population Characteristics: West

Germany



                       Source 1      Source 2

                       Micro-        ALLBUS

                       census 89     1990



Male                   47.1 %        48.4 %

Female                 52.9 %        51.6 %





Age Groups



18 - 19                 3.2 %         2.1 %

20 - 24                10.3 %         8.2 %

25 - 29                10.4 %        12.0 %

30 - 34                 8.8 %        10.8 %

35 - 39                 8.0 %         9.9 %

40 - 44                 6.9 %         7.5 %

45 - 49                 8.9 %         8.0 %

50 - 54                 9.2 %         8.7 %

55 - 59                 7.2 %         6.5 %

60 - 64                 7.3 %         7.4 %

65 - 69                 6.9 %         7.3 %

70 +                   12.9 %        11.7 %





Professional

status



Self-employed           5.8 %         5.9 %

Civil servants          4.8 %         5.7 %

Employees              23.0 %        24.4 %

Labourers              18.3 %        12.7 %

Not in labour

force, NA              48.1 %        51.4 %



Study description: East Germany



Study-Title:           ISSP Plus Study 1990



Fieldwork Dates:       December, 3 to December, 22, 1990



Principal

Investigator:          ZUMA, Mannheim; EMMAG, Berlin



Sample Type:           Multistage sample: first stage  - 40 of 227

                       regions  Second stage - address sampling by

                       random



Fieldwork Institute    INFAS



Fieldwork Methods:     Drop off



Context of ISSP

questionnaire:         Political items and parts of the ALLBUS 1990

                       standard demography



Sample Size:           1028



Response Rates:

                       1500   A - Total issued - total sample

                              B - Ineligible

                              C - (=A - B) Total eligible (in scope

                       1028   D - Total ISSP questionnaires received

                        472   E - (=C - D; F + G + H)

                              F - Refusals

                              G - Non-contact

                              H - Other



Language               German



Weighted               No



Known systematic

Properties:            Sampling efficiency 75%

Characteristics of National Population Statistics: East Germany



                       Source 1



Male                   47.8 %

Female                 52.2 %





Age structure



Children - 15

years                  21.6 %

Age able to work

16-65 years            62.3 %

Pensionable

age                    16.1 %





Employed in:



Industry/construc-

tion                   46.8 %

Agriculture,

forestry               11.4 %

Science, culture,

education,

health                 16.0 %



Study Description: Great Britain



Study-Title:           British Social Attitudes 1990 Survey



Fieldwork Dates:       March and June 1990



Principal

Investigator:          Roger Jowell, Sharon Witherspoon, Lindsay Brook,

                       Bridget Taylor, SCPR



Sample Type:           Stratified random probability. In 1990, the

                       sampling frame was the electoral register.

                       Designed to be representative of adults aged 18+

                       living in private accomodation in Great Britain



Fieldwork Methods:     Self-completion supplement given to

                       respondents following the face-to-face

                       interview (on which the classification

                       questions were asked). The supplement was

                       either collected by the interviewer or

                       posted back to office.



Context of ISSP

questionnaire:         Part of BSA 1990: Version L



Sample Size:           Achieved on ISSP: 1197





Response Rates:

                       2293   A - Total issued - total sample

                         83   B - Ineligible

                       2210   C - (=A - B) Total eligible (in scope

                              sample)

                       1197   D - Total ISSP questionnaires received

                       1013   E - Non-responses

                        788   F - Refusals

                        128   G - Non-contact

                         97   H - Other





Language               English



Weighted               Yes



Weighting

Procedure              Source: See Brook, Lindsay, Taylor, Bridget, and

                       Prior, Gillian: British Social Attitudes 1990

                       Survey; Technical Report; Social and Community

                       Planning Research, London 1991.

Comparison with National Population Statistics: Great Britain



                       Source 1      Source 2

                       GHS           BSA



Male                   48.0 %        45.0 %

Female                 52.0 %        55.0 %





Age Groups



18 - 24                13.0 %        13.0 %

25 - 34                19.0 %        19.0 %

35 - 44                19.0 %        20.0 %

45 - 54                15.0 %        15.0 %

55 - 64                14.0 %        13.0 %

65 - 74                12.0 %        12.0 %

75 +                    8.0 %         7.0 %





Years of full-

time education



under 10               17.0 %

11                     27.0 %        43.0 %

12                     27.0 %        25.0 %

13                      8.0 %         9.0 %

14                      6.0 %         7.0 %

15 or more             16.0 %        15.0 %





Unemployment

rate



May 1990                5.5 %         5.2 %

Study Description: USA



Study-Title:           General Social Survey 1990 (GSS)



Fieldwork Dates:       February to April, 1990



Principal

Investigator:          James A. Davis, Tom Smith, NORC



Sample Type:           Three-stage NORC Master Sampling: Full

Probability Sample



Fieldwork Institute:   National Opinion Research Center,

                       University of Chicago, NORC



Fieldwork Methods:     Personal Interviews with the ISSP done as

                       self-completion while the interviewer is

                       waiting



Context of ISSP

questionnaire:         The ISSP data are part of the GSS



Sample Size:           1217 achieved





Response Rates:

                       1857   A - Total issued - total sample

                        485   B - Ineligible

                       1372   C - (=A - B) Total eligible (in scope

                              sample)

                       1217   D - Total ISSP questionnaires received

                              E - (=C - D; F + G + H)



                        155   F - Refusals

                              G - Non-contact

                              H - Other





Language               American English



Weighted               No



Literature:            General Social Survey, 1972-1991: Cumulative

                       Codebook, 1991, Conducted for the National Data

                       Program for the Social Sciences at the National

                       Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago;

                       Data distributed by the Roper Center for Public

                       Opinion Research, University of Connecticut; NORC

                       Edition



Comparison of the 1988 Current Population Survey to the 1990

General Social Survey: USA



                       Source 1      Source 2       Source 3

                       CPS           GSS 1990       GSS 1990

                       1988          unweight.      weighted





Male                   47.8 %        44.0 %         45.2 %

Female                 52.2 %        56.0 %         54.8 %

(N)                                  (1372)         (1372)





Age Groups



18 - 24                14.7 %        10.3 %         12.8 %

25 - 29                12.0 %         9.8 %         10.0 %

30 - 34                12.0 %        12.7 %         12.4 %

35 - 39                10.5 %        12.0 %         11.1 %

40 - 44                 8.9 %        10.9 %         11.1 %

45 - 49                 7.2 %         7.7 %          8.5 %

50 - 54                 6.1 %         5.2 %          6.1 %

55 - 59                 6.0 %         5.0 %          5.2 %

60 - 64                 6.0 %         6.1 %          6.2 %

65 +                   16.7 %        20.3 %         16.6 %

(N)                                  (1372)         (1372)





Years of

Schooling



0 -  8                 12.1 %         9.3 %          9.1 %

9 - 12                 11.7 %        12.7 %         13.1 %

12                     38.9 %        31.3 %         31.5 %

13 - 15                17.0 %        23.5 %         23.3 %

16 +                   20.3 %        23.3 %         21.4 %

(N)                                  (1228)         (1194)







Labor force

participation, 16

years or older



Employed               62.3 %        63.9 %         66.1 %

Unemployed              3.6 %         2.4 %          2.7 %

Not in labour          34.1 %        33.6 %         31.1 %

(N)                                  (1372)         (1372)

Study description: Hungary



Study-Title:           TARKI Election Survey



Fieldwork Dates:       May, 1990



Principle

Investigator:          Tamas Kolosi



Sample Type:           The original sample of 3000 respondents was

                       staged as proportional random sample. The first

                       stage of sampling was constituted by the

                       selection of settlements, the second stage was

                       the selection of individuals. Only persons over

                       18 years were selected. The sample consisted of

                       3x1000 respondents and all three subsamples of

                       1000 were expected to be representative regarding

                       sex, age and regional distribution of Hungarian

                       population. Since the survey was linked with this

                       earlier data survey from 1988 there was no

                       possibility to use supplementary adresses and

                       this fact resulted a reduction of the original

                       sample to 977.



Fieldwork Institute:   TARKI



Fieldwork Methods:     Personal Interviews



Context of ISSP

Questionnaire:         Originally 1000 questionnaires were planned to be

fielded.



Sample Size:           977



Response Rates:

                       1000   A - Total issued - total sample

                         23   B - Ineligible

                        977   D - Total ISSP questionnaires received



                       18.9%         F - Refusals

                        4.5%           - Unable to answer



                       17.9%         G - non-contact, new address unknown

                       26.6%           - did not live at home

                        5.5%           - address wrong

                        9.0%           - R died

                       17.8%         H - other



Language               Hungarian



Weighted               Yes



Weighting

Procedure:             After comparing this sample to the Population

                       Census Data in Hungary of 1990 we found that

                       elder women were overrepresentated in our sample.

                       In order to correct this sampling error we

                       computed a weighting variable, which is necessary

                       to use for analyses.  Comparison with the

                       Characteristics of National Population

                       Statistics: Hungary

 Comparison with National Population Statistics: Hungary



                              Source 1       Source 2

                              Micro-         ROG II

                              census 90      1990





Male                          47.3 %         46.4 %

Female                        52.7 %         53.6 %





Year of birth



1959-1970, male               10.6 %         11.3 %

1949-1958, male               10.9 %         11.3 %

1929-1948, male               15.7 %         15.5 %

x   -1928, male               10.1 %          8.3 %



1959-1970,female              10.0 %         11.4 %

1949-1958,female              10.7 %         11.7 %

1929-1948,female              17.1 %         17.8 %

x   -1928,female              14.9 %         12.7 %

Study description: Italy



Study-Title:           Indagine Sociale Internationale 1990/ 91



Fieldwork Dates:       April, 8 to April, 22, 1990



Principal

Investigator:          Gabriele Calvi



Sample Type:           The sampling criteria adopted was a random route

                       one. The survey is fully representative of the

                       Italian population aged between 14 and 74.



Fieldwork Institute    EURISCO



Fieldwork Methods:     Self-completion questionnaire as 'drop off'



Context of ISSP

questionnaire:         ISI 1990/ 91



Sample Size:           983



Response Rates:

                       983    D - Total ISSP questionnaires received



Language               Italian



Weighted               Yes

Characteristics of National Population Statistics: Italy





                       Source 1

                       Census

                       1991



Male                   48.5 %

Female                 51.5 %





Age Groups



14 - 17                 7.0 %

18 - 24                14.5 %

25 - 34                18.1 %

35 - 44                17.6 %

45 - 54                16.5 %

55 - 64                15.5 %

65 - 74                10.8 %





Education



Elementary

school                 25.2 %

Lower high

school                 27.3 %

High school            36.4 %

University, with

or without

degree                 11.2 %





Geographic areas



North-West             27.1 %

North-East             18.4 %

Centre                 19.1 %

South &

Islands                35.4 %





Occupation



Professionals           1.8 %

Managers,

Executives             15.4 %

Self-employed          12.2 %

Labourers              19.0 %

Housewife              19.9 %

Students               10.8 %

Retired                14.3 %

Unemployed              6.5 %





Status



Low                    29.2 %

Average                53.8 %

High                   17.0 %

Study description: Ireland



Study-Title:        IRELAND: Religion and Role of Government Modules



Fieldwork Dates:    September - November 1991



Principal

Investigator:       Prof. Conor Ward (UCD) Prof. Brendan Whelan (ESRI)

                    Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin



Sample Type:        Random - epsem sample based on RANSAM system



Fieldwork Institute: ESRI



Fieldwork Methods:  Personal Interview





Sample Size:        1575



Response Rates:

                    1575     A - Total issued

                     201     B - Ineligible

                    1374     C - (= A - B) Total eligible

                    1005     D - Total ISSP questionnaires received

                     396     E - (= C - D; = F + G + H)

                                  total non-response

                     154     F - Refusals

                     122     G - Non-contact

                      93     H - Other



Language:           English



Weighted:           No



National Population Characteristics: Ireland



                            Source:

                            Census 91





Male                        49.1 %

Female                      50.9 %



(% of population aged 15 +)





Age Groups



0 - 14                      26.7 %

15 - 24                     17.1 %

25 - 44                     27.2 %

45 - 64                     17.6 %

65 +                        11.4 %



(% of total population)



                            Source:

                            Census 86

Years of Schooling

Groups



under 10                    28.5 %

10 - 11                     31.5 %

12 - 14                     31.3 %

15 or over                   8.7 %



(% of population aged 15 + who have completed education)





                            Source:

                            Labour Force

                            Survey 90

Employment

Status



Employed                    44.2  %

Unemployed                   7.0 %

Not in labour

force                       48.8 %



(% of population aged 15 +)

Study Description: Norway



Study-Title:           Attitudes to Government and Civil Service



Fieldwork Dates:       February, 28 to July, 13, 1990



Principal

Investigator:          NSD



Sample Type:           Simple random sample from the Central Register of

                       Persons, aged 16-79 years.



Fieldwork Institute:   Norwegian Social Science Data Services



Fieldwork Methods:     Postal Self-completion questionnaire with

                       one reminder sent out March, 7 and two

                       follow-ups with questionnaires sent out

                       March, 26 and May, 23.



Context of ISSP

Questionnaire:         The ISSP data are part of a survey called

                       'Attitudes to Government and Civil Service'. The

                       Survey was coordinated by the National Committee

                       for Survey Research, and financed by the

                       Norwegian Council for Science and the Humanities

                       (NAVF) and the Norwegian Council for Applied

                       Social Research (NORAS).



Sample Size:           1517



Response Rates:

                       2500   A - Total issued - total sample

                         75   B - Ineligible

                       2425   C - (=A - B) Total eligible (in scope

                              sample)

                       1517   D - Total ISSP questionnaires received

                              E - (=C - D; F + G + H)

                        908   F - Refusals

                              G - Non-contact

                              H - Other



Language               Norwegian



Weighted               No



Comparison with Characteristics of National Population

Statistics: Norway



                       Source 1      Source 2       Source 3       Source 4

                       Census        Gross          Non            Net

                       1990          sample 90      response       sample



Total N                3 215 328     2 500          983            1 517

                       100.0 %       100.0%         100.0%         100.0%





Male                   49.7 %        50.5 %         47.7 %         52.5 %

Female                 50.3 %        49.5 %         52.6 %         47.5 %





Gender and Age



Male, 16-19             4.1 %         5.0 %          4.2 %          5.6 %

Male, 20-29            10.5 %        10.4 %         11.1 %         10.0 %

Male, 30-39            10.0 %        10.5 %          9.7 %         11.0 %

Male, 40-49             8.9 %         8.9 %          7.7 %          9.7 %

Male, 50-59             5.9 %         5.9 %          5.0 %          6.5 %

Male, 60-69             6.1 %         5.8 %          5.6 %          5.9 %

Male, 70-79             4.2 %         4.0 %          4.2 %          3.8 %



Female, 16-19           3.9 %         3.4 %          3.2 %          3.5 %

Female, 20-29          10.0 %         9.8 %          9.1 %         10.2 %

Female, 30-39           9.4 %         9.6 %         10.4 %          9.0 %

Female, 40-49           8.4 %         8.2 %          7.7 %          8.6 %

Female, 50-59           6.0 %         6.6 %          7.1 %          6.2 %

Female, 60-69           6.9 %         6.5 %          7.4 %          5.9 %

Female, 70-79           5.7 %         5.5 %          7.7 %          4.1 %





Region



Central east,

counties 2 & 3         21.2 %        22.2 %         23.2 %         21.6 %

East, counties

1, 4-7                 24.6 %        23.3 %         25.0 %         22.1 %

South, counties

8-10                    9.4 %         9.8 %          9.7 %         10.0 %

West, counties

11- 15                 25.0 %        25.5 %         23.6 %         26.7 %

Middle, counties

16 & 17                 8.9 %         8.3 %          7.5 %          8.8 %

North, counties

18-20                  10.8 %        10.9 %         11.0 %         10.9 %

Study Description: Israel



Study-Title:           Role of Government



Fieldwork Dates:       December 1991



Principal

Investigator:          N. Lewin-Epstein, Tel Aviv Universtity



Sample Type:           Area Probability Sample



Fieldwork Methods:     Face to face interview



Context of ISSP

questionnaire:         Exclusive ISSP questionnaire



Sample Size:           991



Language               Hebrew



Weighted               No



Known Systematic

Properties:            Only Jewish population surveyed



Characteristics of National Population Statistics: Israel



                       Source 1      Source 2

                       Total         Jews only





Male                   49.8 %        49.6 %

Female                 50.2 %        50.4 %





Age Groups



0 - 19                 48.7 %        37.9 %

20 - 24                 8.1 %         7.7 %

25 - 29                 7.3 %         7.0 %

30 - 34                 7.1 %         7.2 %

35 - 44                13.2 %        14.1 %

45 - 54                 7.8 %         8.2 %

55 - 64                 6.8 %         7.5 %

65 - 74                 5.3 %         6.0 %

75 +                    3.8 %         4.4 %





Years/ Schooling

Groups



0                       5.6 %         4.2 %

1 -  8                 19.4 %        15.9 %

9 -  12                49.7 %        51.5 %

13 - 15                14.5 %        16.0 %

16 +                   10.8 %        12.2 %





Employment

Status



Employed               46.6  %

Unemployed              4.9 %

Not labour

force                  48.5 %



Codebook Information





The example below is a reproduction of information appearing in

the machine readable codebook. The numbers in angular brackets

< > do not appear in the codebook, but are references to the

descriptions which follow the example.









Example





V4   OBEY LAWS WITHOUT EXCEPT

<1>          <2>



Location   14   MD1: 0   Dec.places:

Width       1   MD2: 8

 <3>             <4>      <5>



<6>

Q.1  In general, would you say that people should obey the law

without exception, or are there exceptional occasions on which

people should follow their consciences even if it means breaking

the law?







<7>





<8> <9>

1.  Obey the law

2.  Follow conscience



8.  Can't choose

9.  NA

0.  I: Not available



<10>





              AUS   D(W)  D(E)   GB  NIRL   USA     H     I   IRL     N

           I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I

        1  I  734I  652I  253I  493I  383I  476I  484I     I  347I  463I

        %  I 33.1I 25.3I 27.5I 44.4I 53.3I 42.9I 51.0I     I 37.4I 31.9I

           I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I

        2  I 1483I 1922I  668I  618I  336I  634I  465I     I  580I  987I

        %  I 66.9I 74.7I 72.5I 55.6I 46.7I 57.1I 49.0I     I 62.6I 68.1I

           I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I

        9  I 116MI  42MI  26MI  24MI  19MI  35MI   5MI     I   5MI  37MI

           I     I     I     I     I     I     I     I     I     I     I

           I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I

        0  I     I     I     I     I     I     I     I 983MI     I     I

           I     I     I     I     I     I     I     I     I     I     I

           I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I-----I

      Sum    2398  2812  1028  1197   772  1217   977   983  1005  1517

Explanations







<1>   A variable (and reference) number have been assigned to

each item in the study. In the present codebook which documents

the archived data set, these numbers are identical. Should the

data set be subsetted or rearranged the variable numbers might

change to reflect the order of the new data set while the

reference numbers would remain unchanged to provide a link to

the archived data set.



<2>   Indicates the abbreviated (24 character maximum) variable

label used within OSIRIS or SPSS system files.



<3>   "Location" indicates the starting position of the variable

when the dataset is stored in the OSIRIS format."Width"

describes the number of positions of the variable.



<4>   "MD" indicates the designation of the missing data. MD1

indicates an explicit defined single value. MD2 designates a

single value or a value range, i.e. all values equal or greater

than this value have been declared missing. Although these

categories are defined as missing data categories, this does not

mean that the user should not or cannot use these codes if so

desired.



<5>   If a variable contains implied decimals, the message

"Dec.places: xx" appears here, where xx is the number of decimal

places.



<6>   Indicates the full question text taken from the British

questionnaire. Wherever possible the original sequence of

questions has been retained, although some changes were

necessary to integrate the different national questionnaires.



<7>   Indicates commentaries and explanations added during the

processing of the study.    Indicates the code value for the single answer category.



<9>   Indicates the textual definition of the codes.

Abbreviations commonly used are DK (don't know), NA (no answer),

Can't choose, Not applicable and Not available.



<10>  Indicates percentaged frequencies by country. This form is

used whenever code categories have the same meaning for all

countries. Column percentages are based only on  "valid cases".

Missing data values were excluded from percentages.