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

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Representative multi-stage random sample

Kind of data

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Data 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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