Summary information
Study title
EVS - European Values Study 1999 - Iceland
Creator
Jónsson, Fridrik H. (University of Iceland, Iceland)
Olafsson, Stefan (University of Iceland, Iceland)
Study number / PID
ZA3788, Version 3.1.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.11539 (DOI)
Data access
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Series
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Abstract
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of
Europeans.
Topics:
Leisure time: importance of areas of life;
feeling of happiness; memberships and honorary activities in clubs,
parties, organizations, citizens´ initiatives and occupation
organizations; interactions in leisure time; tolerance regarding
minorities, those of other beliefs and foreigners; inter-human trust;
self-effectiveness (scale); general contentment with life (scale).
Work: importance of selected characteristics of occupational
work (scale); personal employment; general work satisfaction (scale);
self-determination at work (scale); work ethic (scale); attitude to
achievement-based pay and following work instructions without
criticism; priority of nationals over foreigners as well as men over
women with shortage of jobs; assumed priority of individual or social
reasons for the situation of economic need of individuals; freedom of
the unemployed to reject a job offer (scale).
Politics: party preference; attitude to foreign workers in one´s
country; fear of the future; assimilation and integration of
immigrants; concept of a just society (more welfare state or
liberalism, scale); interest in political news in the media;
individualism and thinking of the community; interest in politics;
political participation; self-assessment on a left-right continuum
(scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision (scale);
attitude to competition freedom and entrepreneur freedom (scale);
satisfaction with democracy; attitude to the current political system
of the country and judgment on the political system of the country ten
years ago (scale); preference for a democratic political system or for
strong leadership of an individual politician (scale); attitude to
democracy (scale); loss of national characteristics through unification
of Europe.
Religion: individual or general standard for good and evil; current
and perhaps earlier religious denomination; current frequency of...
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Methodology
Data collection period
01/06/1999 - 31/12/1999
Country
Iceland
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Representative multi-stage random sample
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Face-to-face interviews with standardized questionnaire.In Iceland about a quarter of the respondents were interviewed by telephone. These were respondents in remote areas of the country.
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
2012
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.
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