The second International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) survey by COMPASS Research Centre at the University of Auckland, with funding support from its Business School, and also the New Zealand European Union Centres Network, via colleagues at UoA and also Victoria University of Wellington.
We were short on resources to run the survey in 2014, so this one was combined with the 2015 ISSP module on Work Orientations.
A verbose rundown on topics covered follows.
Citizenship
Qualities of a good citizen; social and political participation; group memberships; importance of different people’s rights in democracy (scale); estimation of political influence possibilities (political efficacy); likeliness of counter-action against an unjust law and expected chance of serious attention to people’s demand.
Interest in politics; following of political news; personal trust in the political system; political discussions with friends; level of honesty and fairness in the last national election; corruption in public service; voter participation; voting behaviour (recall); attitudes to changing New Zealand flag.
Qualities of being a New Zealander; ethnic vs. national identity; chances of leaving New Zealand in the next five years + reasons for this.
Demography
Sex; age; marital-status; education; current employment status; hours worked weekly; occupation; working for private or public sector or self-employed; if self-employed: number of employees; supervisor function; trade union membership; current employment status; earnings; family income; household size; religious denomination; attendance of religious services; size of community; type of community: urban-rural area; ethnicity.
Sampling
We took a random sample of 2,500 from the New Zealand Electoral Rolls, ensuring first that they all had New Zealand mailing addresses. They were all sent a questionnaire, identified by a barcode, and then three weeks later, those that had not responded were sent a reminder postcard - this was why the questionnaires were identified, so as not to annoy more people than necessary. Finally, after another three weeks, those that still had not responded were sent a second copy of the questionnaire. Ultimately we completed a data set of 901 respondents, a basic response rate of 36%.Universe
People on the New Zealand Electoral Rolls, 18 years old or more, and at least a New Zealand Permanent Resident.Data Collector
COMPASS Research Centre, the University of Auckland.Mode of Collection
Mail survey, with the option to complete via SurveyMonkey.Weighting
A weighting variable is provided, to make the respondent population representative of the original random sample.Series Information
The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies. ISSP researchers especially concentrate on developing questions that are meaningful and relevant to all countries, and can be expressed in an equivalent manner in all relevant languages.Publisher (e.g. University of Auckland)
The University of AucklandContact email
m.vonrandow@auckland.ac.nzSpatial coverage (e.g. Kermadec Island)
New Zealand (samples from Electoral Rolls)Temporal coverage [yyyy/mm/dd - yyyy/mm/dd]
2015/07/09 – 2015/09/30
