ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research International Social Survey Program: Work Orientations II, 1997 International Social Survey Program (ISSP) ICPSR 3032 INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SURVEY PROGRAM: WORK ORIENTATIONS II, 1997 (ICPSR 3032) Principal Investigator International Social Survey Program (ISSP) First ICPSR Version November 2000 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Publications based on ICPSR data collections should acknowledge those sources by means of bibliographic citations. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for social science bibliographic utilities, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: International Social Survey Program (ISSP). INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SURVEY PROGRAM: WORK ORIENTATIONS II, 1997 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Koeln, Germany: Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung [producer], 1999. Koeln, Germany: Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 2000. REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON USE OF ICPSR RESOURCES To provide funding agencies with essential information about use of archival resources and to facilitate the exchange of information about ICPSR participants' research activities, users of ICPSR data are requested to send to ICPSR bibliographic citations for each completed manuscript or thesis abstract. Please indicate in a cover letter which data were used. DATA DISCLAIMER The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for uses of this collection or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses. DATA COLLECTION DESCRIPTION International Social Survey Program (ISSP) INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SURVEY PROGRAM: WORK ORIENTATIONS II, 1997 (ICPSR 3032) SUMMARY: The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) is an ongoing program of crossnational collaboration. Formed in 1983, the group develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social science as supplements to regular national surveys. This survey is the second in a series exploring the "work orientations" topic. The first survey on this topic was conducted in 1989 (ICPSR 9784). Participating countries in the present survey include Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. As in 1989, the module focused on the areas of general attitudes toward work and leisure, work organization, and work content. Opinions were elicited on issues such as respondent preferences for more work or more leisure time, the value of work in general, and how important factors such as job security, high income, opportunities for advancement, job interest, independence, and value to others were to the respondent. Other questions focused on what factors should determine how to pay two people doing the same kind of work, the effects the introduction of new technologies (computers, robots, etc.) would have on the workplace, attitudes about self-employment, size of the workplace, public vs. private sector employment, and full-time vs. part-time work. Respondents were also asked how easy or difficult it would be to find an acceptable job, how they felt about their present job, and how they viewed their working conditions (e.g., if they came home exhausted from work, amount of stress and possible danger on the job, working hours, place of work, whether their status was temporary or permanent, how their present job made use of their skills, and how they acquired these skills). Additional questions elicited information on relations in the workplace between management and employees and between workmates, how satisfied respondents were with their job, how they felt about their organization, how many days they had been absent (excluding vacation) from work in the last six months, how likely it was that they would try to find a new job within the next twelve months, and how much they worried about the possibility of losing their job. A special group of questions focused on respondents who were not currently employed. Demographic variables include age, sex, education, marital status, personal and family income, employment status, household size and composition, occupation, religion and church attendance, social class, union membership, political party, voting history, size of community, region, and ethnicity. UNIVERSE: Persons aged 18 years and older except in Japan, the Netherlands, and Russia (16 years and older). SAMPLING: Varies by nation. NOTE: (1) The data are provided as an SPSS portable file and are weighted. (2) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection in essentially the same form in which they were received. When appropriate, documentation has been converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), data files have been converted to non-platform-specific formats, and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity. (3) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. RESTRICTIONS: The data were supplied by the Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung in Koeln, Germany. To provide funding agencies with essential information about the use of archival resources, and to facilitate the exchange of information about research activities based on the Zentralarchiv's holdings, users are expected to send two copies of each completed manuscript to the Zentralarchiv. All manuscripts utilizing data made available through the Zentralarchiv should acknowledge that fact. EXTENT OF COLLECTION: 1 data file + machine-readable documentation (PDF) EXTENT OF PROCESSING: MDATA.PR/ REFORM.DOC DATA FORMAT: SPSS portable file Cases: 34,835 Variables: 276 ICPSR PROCESSING NOTE This codebook contains information from many separate files provided by the data producer. These include a list of variable names, a general description of each variable generated from the SPSS display dictionary command, listings of recodes and occupation codes, a questionnaire, and a data collection instrument. Users should note that the names and order of variables in the data file match those in the SPSS listing only. VARIABLES ISSP 1997 - V1 ZA study number - V2 Respondent Number - V3 Country - V4 Time in a paid job - V5 Time doing household work - V6 Time with family - V7 Time with friends - V8 Time in leisure activities - V9 Job a way for earning money - V10 A paid job even I did not need the money - V11 Work is persons most important activity - V12 Person responsible for domestic duties - V13 Importance: job security - V14 Importance: high income - V15 Importance: good advancement - V16 Importance: interesting job - V17 Importance: independently work - V18 Importance: to help other people - V19 Importance: useful to society - V20 Importance: decide their times of work - V21 Importance: how well to do the job - V22 Importance: family responsibilities - V23 Importance: education, formal qualif. - V24 Importance: how long being with the firm - V25 New technologies - Number of jobs: - V26 New technologies will make work - - V27 Personnally choose between diff. jobs - V28 I would choose working - V29 I would choose working - V30 Decide on the present work situation - V31 Easy or difficult to find an accept. job - V32 Currenty working for pay - V33 Best describes feelings about job - V34 Number of hour of work - earning money - V35 Apply to the job - my job is secure - V36 Apply to the job - my income is high - V37 Apply - opport. for advancement is high - V38 Apply to the job - my job is interesting - V39 Apply to the job - can work independently - V40 Apply to the job - can help other people - V41 Apply to the job - is useful to society - V42 How often applies: home from work exhausted - V43 How often applies: to do hard physical work - V44 How often applies: find the work stressful - V45 How often applies: work in dangerous conditions - V46 Best describes the working hours - V47 Best describes where you work - V48 Present job situation - V49 Experience and skills you make use of - V50 Developping skills: school, college, univ. - V51 Developping skills: training in a job - V52 Relations: between management/employees - V53 Relations: between workmates/collegues - V54 How satisfied are you in your job - V55 Willing to work harder for succeed - V56 Proud to be working for my firm - V57 Given the chance, I would change - V58 Another job for quite a bit more pay - V59 Proud of the type of work I do - V60 How many days absent from work last 6 m. - V61 How likely to find a job next 12 month - V62 Extent to worry about losing the job - V63 Not currently working: a paid job 1 year m. - V64 Not working: end of last paid job - V65 Not working: main reason for job end - V66 Not working: like to have a job now or in future - V67 Not working: how likely to find a job - V68 Not working: currently looking for a job - V69 Not working: registered at a public agency - V70 Not working: