ISSP 2002 - Family and changing gender roles III: Sweden

This is the Swedish part of the 2002 'International Social Survey Program' (ISSP), and it is the second time Sweden participates in an ISSP-survey focusing on the significance of family and changing gender roles.

Questions cover the respondents attitude to employment of women and the role distribution of man and woman. Other questions deal with how much women should work outside the home during various stages of child raising. The respondents also gave their opinion on different aspects of marriage, divorce and having children. Respondents were asked how they managed their income, if they kept their own money separate or if they pooled the money. They were also asked how they divide the work between man and woman when it comes to housework such as: laundry, small repairs, care for sick family members, shopping for groceries, cleaning the house, and cooking. Other questions deal with: the average number of hours per week the respondent and the spouse respectively spends on housework; opinion on division of housework; disagreement between respondent and spouse about division of housework; partner most responsible for child raising; partner deciding about what to do together during weekends; partner deciding about major purchases to the home; and who earns more money. Furthermore the respondents had to give their opinion on their own degree of stress at work and at home, as well as their experience of not having enough time for both work and home. On a scale ranging from completely happy to completely miserable, the respondents had to indicate their own degree of happiness. The respondents also had to indicate their satisfaction with work and family life on scales ranging from totally satisfied to totally dissatisfied. Socio-economic background information include: employment status; weekly working hours; occupation; employee or self-employed; supervisory function; work in private or public sector; trade union membership; education; years in school; income; marital status; family income; number of persons in household; number of pre-school children and number of school-children in household; party preference; participation in last national election; self-classification of social class; religious affiliation and church attendance; gender; age. Background information on spouse include: employment status, weekly working hours, occupation, employed or self-employed, and education.

Purpose:

ISSP aims to design and implement internationally comparable attitude surveys. The study in 2002 investigating Family and Changing Gender Roles. Show less..