International Social Survey Programme

The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a collaboration between different nations conducting surveys covering topics which are useful for social science research. The ISSP researchers develop questions which are meaningful and relevant to all countries which can be expressed in an equal manner in different languages. The results of the surveys provide a cross-national and cross-cultural perspective to individual national studies. Through 2015 58 countries have participated in the ISSP.The ISSP was founded in 1984 by research organizations from four countries:The ISSP is a self-funding organisation with an emphasis on democratic decision making stated in its working principles. To accomplish this principle it has set up several groups and committees. These groups either consist of member organizations as a whole or include some particular social scientists. There are:The methodological work in the ISSP is coordinated by a Methodology Committee, consisting of seven members elected at the General Meeting. It co-ordinates the work of six groups addressing different areas of cross-cultural methods, all concerned with issues of equivalence: demography, non-response, weighting, mode effects, questionnaire design and translation.The datasets from the different modules conducted by participating ISSP member states can be downloaded at the GESIS Archive page. All these links lead to the official GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences homepage, where the data is provided openly for research purposes.  Australia   Austria   Belgium   Bolivia  Brazil  Bulgaria   Canada   Chile   China   Croatia   Cyprus   Czech Republic   Denmark  Dominican Republic   Estonia  Finland   France   Germany   Georgia   Hungary   Iceland   Ireland   Israel   Japan   Latvia   Mexico   The Netherlands  New Zealand   Norway   The Philippines   Poland   Portugal   Romania   Russia   Slovakia   Slovenia   South Africa   South Korea   Spain  Suriname   Sweden  Switzerland  Taiwan  Thailand   Turkey   Uruguay  United Kingdom   United States   Venezuela