NATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE SURVEY 1993: INEQUALITY II

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National Social Science Survey 1993; Inequality II

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1. National Social Science Survey 1993: inequality II. 2. Computer files - Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Public opinion - Australia - Data processing - Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Kelley, Jonathan. II. National Social Science Survey (Australia). III. Australian National University. Australian Social Science Data Archive. (Series: ASSDA study ; no. 960).

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ASSDA Study Series (User's guide only) ISSN 0728-9766

National Social Science Survey 1993: Inequality II [computer file] / Principal investigators Jonathan Kelley, Clive Bean, M.D.R. Evans, Krzysztof Zagorski. Canberra: Australian Social Science Data Archive, The Australian National University [distributor], 1996 1 data file (2553 logical records) and accompanying user's guide.

Summary: This file is the sixth in the National Social Science Survey (NSSS) series and is a panel of respondents from the National Social Science Survey 1989/90: Family and Changing Sex Roles and the National Social Science Survey 1990: Lifestyles, and repeats many of the questions asked in the previous rounds. The survey also includes questions asked as part of the International Social Survey Programme. Comparative data from all countries in the Programme are processed and distributed by the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA) at the University of Cologne (ZA Study 2150, Religion, 1991, ZA Study 2310, Inequality II 1992)

The data file contains a wide range of attitudinal questions. Sections cover attitudes to government policies; trade unionism; attitudes to political leaders, parties and election issues; voting and party identification; feeling thermometer ratings of political leaders, groups and institutions; experience of crime; church services; parents’ participation in cultural activities when respondent was growing up, and respondents participation in those activities then and now; standard of living when growing up and now; freedom of the Press; leisure activities; courtship and marriage; abortion; attitudes to medical ethics and preventable diseases.

The Inequality module covers perceived prerequisites for success; social mobility; importance of hierarchical pay structure; estimates of actual and ideal salaries for various work positions; appropriateness of tax levels; conflicts between social groups; deciding factors in pay rates; actual and ideal social structure, and respondents' position in the structure.

The Religion module focuses on the impact of religious beliefs and behaviours on social, political and moral attitudes. Variables include government responsibility; sexual relations; working women; belief in God, the Devil, heaven, hell and life after death; the influence of religious leaders on voting and government decisions; church attendance and involvement in other religious activities; image of God and image of the world.

Background variables include respondents’ education and qualifications, income and standard of living, trade union membership, religion, and the education of the respondents’ parents and the religion of the respondents' spouse.

The National Social Science Survey (NSSS) is an annual survey which has been conducted since 1984-85 by Jonathan Kelley (principal investigator), R.G. Cushing (1984-85), Bruce Headey (1984-85), Clive Bean, M.D.R. Evans and Krzysztof Zagorski. The principal sponsor is the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. The survey measures a wide range of variables of interest in the social sciences, particularly political science, labour economics and sociology, and typically includes some 35 pages of questions on attitudes and values and about 25 pages of detailed background and demographic questions. The data are representative of a non-institutionalised population aged 18 years and over in all States and Territories in Australia.

In addition, the NSSS is the Australian member of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), a major collaborative project by leading academic surveys in Europe and the United States. Since its inception in 1984, the ISSP has aimed to collect precisely comparable data which reveal similarities and differences between countries on social attitudes, values and politics. Each year, participating nations field a short self-completion survey module. These modules are 15 minute supplements to regular national surveys (or special surveys if necessary) which add a cross national perspective to the individual, national studies. The same questions (i.e. to which responses are internationally comparable) are asked in all countries, with some omissions, and occasional variations in question wording and code categories due to language differences. Comparative data from all countries in the Programme are processed and distributed by the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA) at the University of Cologne.

All manuscripts based in whole or in part on these data should:

(i) identify the data, original investigators and data distributors by including the bibliographic reference for the data file given below:

Bibliographic Reference Kelley, Jonathan, Clive Bean, M.D.R. Evans and Krzysztof Zagorski, National Social Science Survey 1993: Inequality II [computer file]. Canberra: Australian Social Science Data Archive, The Australian National University, 1996

(ii) declare that those who carried out the original analysis and collection of the data bear no responsibility for the further analysis or interpretation of them.

In order to assemble essential information about the use of archival resources and to facilitate the exchange of information about users' research activities, individuals are requested to deposit two copies of each completed manuscript, thesis abstract, or reprint to the Australian Social Science Data Archive.

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