The twelfth of 20 years of International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys within New Zealand, by Professor Philip Gendall, Department of Marketing, Massey University.A verbose rundown on topics covered follows.Family and gender roles. Attitudes towards employment of mothers and married women; role distribution of man and woman in occupation and household; preferred extent of employment for women during different stages of child raising; attitudes towards marriage, single-parenting, cohabitation before marriage, and divorce; views on the significance of children in life; views on paid maternity leave and on financial aid for working parents; management of income in marriage or partnership; allocation of duties in the household and in family matters; time budget for housekeeping and sharing of housekeeping for both partners; frequency of disagreement about the sharing of housekeeping; decision making in matters of child raising, weekend activities and buying major things for home; principal earner (partner with higher income); stress caused by family, work and household duties (scale); estimation of general personal happiness; satisfaction with employment situation and family life; employment of mother during childhood of respondent; employment in various phases of child raising.Demography: Sex; age, marital status; living together with a partner; years of school education and highest degree; type and time extent of occupation activity; occupation (ISCO-88-Code); working in private or public sector; occupational self-employment and number of employees; supervising function at work; size of household; composition of household; current employment status of spouse; partner employed in public service; working hours per week of partner; union membership; family income; party affiliation and election behaviour; self-classification on a left-right continuum; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; self-placement of social status; self-classification on a top-bottom-scale.Also encoded were: region; rural or urban area; size of community; ethnic identification; mode of data collection.
