ISSP 2008 - Religion III: Sweden

SND-ID: SND 0867

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

Description

This survey is the Swedish part of the 2008 'International Social Survey Program' (ISSP), and it is the second time Sweden participates in an ISSP-survey focusing on religion.

Purpose:

ISSP aims to design and implement internationally comparable attitude surveys. The study in 2008 investigating Religion.

Language

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 17-79 years and residing in Sweden

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Time period(s) investigated

2008-02-19

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Lowest geographic unit

A-region

Highest geographic unit

Country

Topic and keywords

Research area

Gender and gender roles, Family life and marriage, Religion and values (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Sociology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Publications

Malm, G. (2009) In God we trust...or not. An essay about the relative importance of religion in the USA, UK and Sweden. Studentarbete vid Uppsala universitet

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Dataset
ISSP 2008 - Religion III: Sweden

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Version 1.2

2009-08-28
https://doi.org/10.5878/002391

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Citation

Jonas Edlund, Stefan Svallfors. Umeå University (2009). ISSP 2008 - Religion III: Sweden. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.2. https://doi.org/10.5878/002391

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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

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2008-02-19–2008-04-29
  • Data collector: Swedish Institute of Public Opinion Research
  • Instrument: Semi-structured questionnaire
  • Source of the data: Population group

Variables

115

Number of individuals/objects

1235

Response rate/participation rate

62.7%

Published: 2009-01-01
Last updated: 2019-11-18