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This survey is carried out on the basis of the research collaboration in "The International Social Survey Programme" (ISSP). ISSP is an international organisation that prepares and coordinates annual surveys in its member countries, mainly within the fields of political science and sociology. The topic of the surveys varies, but are repeated at intervals of a few years. In this way, changes in behavioral patterns and attitudes over time as well as differences between countries and cultures, are possible to be detected and measured. The Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) became a member of ISSP in 1989 and have since been responsible for carrying out the surveys in Norway. In connection to the survey, researchers are invited to add supplementary questions to the Norwegian respondents. The Norwegian additional part was in 2003 developed in collaboration with Olaf Aagedal, Den norske tilleggsdelen er i 2003 utformet i samarbeid med Olaf Aagedal, Diakonhjemmet University College, Oddbjørn Knutsen, Department of political science, University of Oslo and KIFO (Centre for Church Research). Questions in the Norwegian addition concern use of national symbols, supranationality, political participation, respondents' perceived influence in politics, authoritarian-liberal values and the state church.