ISSP 1994 - Family and changing gender roles II: Sweden

SND-ID: SND 0481

This study is part of the collection ISSP - International Social Survey Programme

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Jonas Edlund - Umeå University, Department of Sociology

Stefan Svallfors - Umeå University, Department of Sociology

Eva Sundström - Umeå University, Department of Sociology

Description

This is the Swedish part of the 1994 'International Social Survey Program' (ISSP), and this is the second time ISSP focuses on the significance of family and changing gender roles.

Questions cover the respondents attitude to employment of women and the role distribution of man and woman. Other questions deal with how much women should work outside the home during various stages of child raising. The respondents also gave their opinions on different aspects of marriage, divorce and having children. The respondents reported if their own mother worked during their childhood and stated their present contacts with their mother. Other questions deal with personal divorces and earlier divorce of present partner. Married persons were asked if they lived together with their partner before marriage and all respondents were asked if they ever did live together with partner without being married. Furthermore the respondents had to give their opinions on: paid maternity leave; financial benefits for child care; right to free abortion; sexual relations before marriage; sexual relations under the age of 16;

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Language

English

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Umeå University

Responsible department/unit

Department of Sociology

Funding

  • Funding agency: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Individuals aged 18-74 years and residing in Sweden

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Time period(s) investigated

1994-02-01 – 1994-05-31

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

National area (NUTS2)

Highest geographic unit

Country

Topic and keywords
Publications

Edlund, J., Sundström, E., & Svallfors, S. (1994) Attitudes towards family and gender roles - A Swedish survey : codebook for machine-readable datafile. Umeå: Department of Sociology.

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Dataset
ISSP 1994 - Family and changing gender roles II: Sweden

Version 2.0

2011-03-01
https://doi.org/10.5878/001596

Variable(s) categorised

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Citation

Jonas Edlund, Stefan Svallfors, Eva Sundström. Umeå University (2011). ISSP 1994 - Family and changing gender roles II: Sweden. Swedish National Data Service. Version 2.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/001596

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Jonas Edlund - Umeå University, Department of Sociology

Stefan Svallfors - Umeå University, Department of Sociology

Eva Sundström - Umeå University, Department of Sociology

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1994-03–1994-05
  • Data collector: Statistics Sweden
  • Instrument: Semi-structured questionnaire
  • Source of the data: Population group

Weighting

A subsample was drawn among those who had still not responded after two subsequent reminders. 50% of them were selected for telephone interviewing, following the normal practices of Statistics Sweden. All respondents in the subsample has accordingly been given the weight 2,12. In order to keep the representativeness of the sample, all calculations should be made using the weight.

Variables

118

Number of individuals/objects

1272

Response rate/participation rate

74%

Published: 1995-01-01
Last updated: 2019-12-16