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The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuous programme of cross-national collaboration running annual surveys on topics important for the social sciences. The programme started in 1984 with four founding members - Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States – and has now grown to almost 50 member countries from all over the world. As the surveys are designed for replication, they can be used for both, cross-national and cross-time comparisons. Each ISSP module focuses on a specific topic, which is repeated in regular time intervals. Please, consult the documentation for details on how the national ISSP surveys are fielded. The present study focuses on questions about family and changing gender roles.Attitude towards employment of mothers; role distribution of man and woman in occupation and household; preferred extent of employment for women during different stages of child raising; attitudes towards marriage, cohabitation without marriage, and divorce; attitudes towards single-parenting and childcare by same sex female and male couples (alternative family forms); ideal number of children for a family; attitudes towards children: views on the significance of children in life; gender, care and social policy: attitude towards paid leave for full-time working parents and preferred duration of paid leave; source of finance for paid leave; preferred division of this paid leave period between mother and father; best way of organisation of family and work life for a family with a child under school age and the least desirable option; principal payers for childcare for children under school age (family itself, government or public funds or employers); family or institutions that should primarily provide support for the elderly; principal payer for this help to elderly people; time budget for housekeeping and looking after family members for both partners; management of income in marriage or partnership; allocation of duties in the...