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;
Language
English
Swedish
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Department of Sociology
Data contains personal data
No
Unit of analysis
Population
Individuals aged 18-74 years and residing in Sweden
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1994-02-01 – 1994-05-31
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
National area (NUTS2)
Highest geographic unit
Country
Research area
Equality, inequality and social exclusion, Gender and gender roles, Family life and marriage
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Sociology
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
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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Data format / data structure
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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
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%