International Social Survey Programme 2019-2021

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The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is one of the most important attempts to undertake cross-national survey research that exists. 45 countries participate, covering all five inhabited continents. Each year, countries field a module of 60 questions on a particular topic, usually as part of an existing random probability survey. These data, along with a set of prescribed socio-demographic background variables, are then deposited in an agreed format with the ISSP data archive. A wide range of modules have been fielded since the project began in 1985. Topics are chosen at an annual plenary meeting and are revisited periodically, with many having been covered several times. As a result, ISSP data can be used to examine differences between countries at a particular point in time and to compare differences in trends over time.A combined dataset containing data for all countries is made publicly available to the research community approximately two years after data collection. ISSP data are widely used, with numbers of publications steadily increasing; more than 800 publications were recorded in the last year for which data is available. In Britain, there have been 630 publications using ISSP data since the programme began.Since ISSP began, Britain's participation has been facilitated by including the ISSP module on a self-completion supplement that forms part of the British Social Attitudes survey (BSA), an annual, high quality, independent survey conducted by NatCen. From 2019, the ISSP module will be placed on a bespoke self-completion supplement, to be provided to respondents to the Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey. SSA is conducted along similar methodological lines to BSA. These strategies represent a highly cost-effective way of fielding the ISSP module, as only the marginal costs of adding the ISSP questions to the surveys have to be covered. ISSP will cover three topics during this period: social inequality (2019), environment (2020) and health and health-care (2021):-Once data has been collected in 2019, the social inequality module will have been fielded five times across a 30 year period. This will enable an examination of how attitudes have changed over time, for different social groups and in different geographical, political and economic contexts. Fielding the module in Scotland for the first time will facilitate the international analyses necessary to test a range of hypotheses about its social and political environment - primarily relating to the assumption that it has a more egalitarian, social democratic outlook than Britain as a whole.-The 2020 module on the environment will enable time series analysis of a range of environmental attitudes and behaviours The collection of data for Scotland will enable an assessment of whether Scotland's distinctive environment or its greater reliance on car and air travel have produced distinct environmental attitudes and behaviours.-The 2021 module on health-care (first asked in 2011) presents an invaluable opportunity to explore how attitudes and experiences have changed over the past decade and how far developments in Britain reflect international trends. Scotland faces particular challenges in respect of health, with high inequalities in morbidity and mortality; the 2021 module will be used to assess how far these challenges have affected support for health spending, in the context of a social democratic culture and state-run health service. A range of dissemination activities promoting awareness and use of ISSP data by social science researchers, policy-makers and the media are proposed. These include: at least one chapter including a comparison of English and Scottish ISSP data in the annual BSA reports, which are freely available online and widely disseminated; maintaining a bespoke ISSP webpage; utilizing NatCen's social media presence to raise awareness of the data and delivering presentations to relevant audiences.