Summary information

Study title

Slovene Public Opinion Survey 1992/2

Creator

Toš, Niko (Faculty of Social Sciences)
International Social Survey Programme

Study number / PID

SJM922 (ADP)

URN:SI:UNI-LJ-FDV:ADPSJM922 (NUK)

https://doi.org/10.17898/ADP_SJM922_V1 (doi)

Data access

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Series

Slovene Public Opinion Survey

Democracy cannot exist and markets cannot function without people participating as citizens, workers and consumers. To monitor trends in public opinion in Central and East European societies the Paul Lazarsfeld Society, Vienna, created the New Democracies Barometer (NDB) in 1991. The NDB asks comparable questions of nationwide representative samples, and repeats key questions regularly to see how much or how little behaviour and attitudes change as people gain more experience of democracy and markets. There is a common core of questions about: economic behaviour and expectations; political...

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International Social Survey Programme

New Democracies Barometer

Abstract

The first part of the survey replicates the ISSP inequality series, and the second one the NDB Questionnaire. The ISSP questionnaire focused on judgement on social justice and social differences in the country. Social prestige of respondent and selected occupations. Topics: Most important prerequisites for personal success in society (scale); attitude to the welfare state and social differences (scale); chances to increase personal standard of living; importance of differentiated payment; higher payment with acceptance of increased responsibility; higher payment as incentive for additional qualification of workers; availability of inequality of society; increased income expectation as motive for taking up studies; good profits for entrepreneurs as best prerequisite for increase in general standard of living; insufficient solidarity of the normal population as reason for the persistence of social inequalities; estimate of average annual income of selected occupational groups and information on a justified income for the members of these occupational groups from the point of view of the respondent; judgement on the income differences in the country; reduction of income differences, employment guarantee, guaranteed minimum income and equal opportunities for children of poorer families in university admission as government task; attitude to a reduction of government taxes for those of low income; approval of government support for unemployed; judgement on total taxation for recipients of high, middle and low income; perceived social conflicts in the country; self-classification on a top-bottom scale; social mobility; social origins; education status, responsibility accepted, span of control, family responsibility, good work performance or hard work as most important criteria for establishing work pay; income increase or income reduction of individual income in case of a hypothetical equalisation of the total income of the population; personal self-employment and...
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/1992 - 02/1992

Country

Slovenia

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Institutionalised people.

Sampling procedure

Probability: Cluster: Stratified random

Kind of data

NumericNumeric

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI)

Access

Publisher

Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov = Social Science Data Archives

Publication year

2024

Terms of data access

The data and materials are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. Users may use the data only for the purposes stated in the registration form and in accordance with professional codes of ethics. Users expressly agree to maintain the confidentiality of the data and to conduct analyses without attempting to identify the individuals and institutions covered by the materials.

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