Summary information

Study title

Based on ISSP 2018: A Cross-national and Comparative Study of Religion of Additional 14 Countries

Creator

Tiliouine, Habib (University of Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed, Algeria)
Armah-Attoh, Daniel (Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Accra, Ghana )
Yaw Norviewu, Newton (Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Accra, Ghana)
Smith, Tom W. (Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI), Jakarta, Indonesia)
Abu-Rumman, Samir (World of Opinions for Polls, Jordan)
Mitullah, Winnie (Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya)
Hean, Sokhom (Center for Advanced Study (CAS), Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
Peiris, Pradeep (Social Scientists’ Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Damba, Ganbat (Academy of Political Education, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
Smith, Tom W. (Tsogolo La Thanzi - Health Future, Malawi)
Suffian, Ibrahim (Merdeka Center for Opinion Research, Selangor, Malaysia)
Smith, Tom W. (CLEEN Foundation, Abuja, Nigeria)
Ghimire, Dirgha J. (Institute for Social and Environmental Research - Nepal (ISER-N), Chitwan, Nepal)
Smith, Tom W. (ML Research Consultants Pte Ltd, Singapore)
Smith, Tom W. (Mekong Development Research Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam)

Study number / PID

ZA7630, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.13517 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitudes towards religion and religious practice Topics: Assessment of personal happiness; satisfaction with relationships with family members; attitudes towards extramarital sex; attitudes towards homosexual relationships between adults; attitudes towards abortion if family has very low income; gender roles in marriage; institutional trust (parliament, business and industry, churches and religious organisations, courts and legal system, schools and educational system); attitudes towards the influence of religious leaders on voters; attitudes towards science and religion (too much trust in science and too little religious faith, more conflicts through religions than peace, intolerance of people with strong religious convictions); assessment of the power of churches and religious organisations in the country; acceptance of a person from different religion as spouse of a relative (social distance); attitudes towards freedom of expression for religious extremists in public meetings, on the Internet and in social media; doubt or firm belief in God (scale deism); past or present belief in God; belief in life after death, heaven, hell, religious miracles and supernatural powers of deceased ancestors; attitude towards a higher truth and the meaning of life (God concerns himself with human beings, people can do little to change life (fatalism), life is meaningful because God exists, life does not serve any purpose, own actions give meaning to life, own way in connecting with God without church or worship services); Opinion on gender equality in one´s own religion; religion of mother and father in the respondent´s childhood; religion the respondent raised in; frequency of church attendance by father and mother in the respondent´s childhood; personal frequency of church attendance at the age of 11-12; frequency of prayers; frequency of participation in church activities (apart from attending church services); read or listened to religious scriptures outside of church...
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Methodology

Data collection period

07/08/2018 - 06/03/2019

Country

Algeria, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Nepal, Singapore, Viet Nam

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2020

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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