| Sumario: | This file combines the fourth and fifth studies in the National Social Science Survey (NSSS) series and repeats many of the questions asked in previous rounds. While conducted as two separate mail surveys, questionnaires for the Family Survey, conducted in 1989-90, and the Lifestyles Survey, conducted in 1990, were identical for the most part allowing responses from both samples to be combined. The Family Survey component also includes questions asked as part of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) study of Family and Changing Sex Roles. Comparative data from all countries in the ISSP have been processed and distributed by the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA) at the University of Cologne (ZA Study 1700,1988). Questions common to both studies cover attitudes to government spending and government policies, life satisfaction, abortion, feeling thermometer ratings of political leaders, groups and institutions, religious beliefs, income returns for education, courtship and marriage, involvement in decision making at work, work values and fairness of pay, leisure activities, the importance of higher pay to get people to work hard, study and learn new skills, do responsible and demanding jobs or dirty and dangerous jobs, the importance of these factors to deciding how much people ought to be paid, and views on how much workers in certain occupations are paid and ought to be paid, neighbourhood problems, fear of crime, experience of crime, trade unionism, privatisation, voting and party indentification. The ISSP study of Family and Changing Sex Roles focuses on the role of women in the family and workplace, attitudes to marriage and divorce, children and childcare. Additional information on the respondents' siblings and attitudes to family taxation was also collected in the survey. Questions included only in the Lifestyles Survey cover parents' participation in cultural activities when respondent was growing up, and respondents participation in those activities then and now, standard of living when growing up and now, attitudes to modern appliances and technology, military threats to Australia, attitudes to preventable diseases. Additional questions on crime issues cover attitudes to the local police in the Family Survey and feelings about crime and punishment in the Lifestyles Survey. Extensive background information includes respondents' occupation, education and qualifications, income and standard of living, trade union membership, religion, birthplace and ancestry, and he birthplace, religion, education, occupation and political orientation of the respondets' spouse or partner, parents and grandfathers.
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