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The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies. The ISSP 1998 on Religion 11 was devoted to influence of religion to social, political and ethic attitudes. Topics of questions: respondents religion and church attendance, religious socialisation, religious experiences and feelings, beliefs (images of god, afterlife, miracles, etc.), happiness, welfare, crime, sexual morality, abortion, gender roles, financial cheating, church and politics, confidence in institutions, basis of Right and Wrong and demographic characteristics. Czech-specific questions attached at the end of ISSP module concern mainly religious life in the Czech Republic, personalities of church in the Czech Republic, knowledge of The Bible and religious practises, political importance of church and religion and social inequality.