ISSP 2000 - Environment II: Sweden
type: Dataset
description: This survey is the Swedish part of the 2000 'International Social Survey Program'. ISSP is an ongoing program of cross-national collaboration. Formed in 1983, the group develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social science as supplements to regular national surveys. The topic of year 2000 was 'Environment', and this was the second survey exploring this topic. The initial survey on this topic was in 1993, a year before the first Swedish ISSP survey. The topic was explored a third time in 2010 (SND 0887), hence the second time in Sweden. In this survey the respondents were asked to comment on various topics regarding nature and the environment, including the role of science and scientific solutions to environmental problems and protection of the environment through higher prices of goods, higher taxes or cuts in the standard of living. In addition, respondents were asked to estimate the effects of air pollution, pesticicides and chemicals used in farming, and modifications of genes of certain crops on themselves, their families, and the environment. Additional information was elicited regarding measures respondents were taking to protect the environment. The respondents also had to indicate their trust in information about casuses of pollution given by different groups. A number of questions dealt with opinions on the Swedish taxes; the pressure of taxation in general, and for various income brackets; willingness to pay more tax if the money was spent on different specific areas; charges when using public services instead of paying through taxes. Respondents also had to state if they felt a need for private insurances to supplement the public welfare system. Demographic variables include respondent´s occupation, trade union affiliation, education, housing, income, marital status, spouse´s occupation, income, number of children, citizenship of parents, and political preferences. Purpose: ISSP aims to design and implement internationally comparable att…
citation: Särkimukka, J., Edlund, J., & Svallfors, S. (2001) ISSP 2000 - Åsikter om miljön. Kodbok för maskinläsbar datafil. Umeå: Department of Sociology.
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creator: Jonas Edlund
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  affiliation: Umeå University
  family name: Edlund
  given name: Jonas
creator: Stefan Svallfors
  type: Person
  affiliation: Umeå University
  family name: Svallfors
  given name: Stefan
date modified: 2024-04-12
date published: 2009-08-28
language: English
language: Swedish
is part of: https://doi.org/10.5878/000371
keywords: Environment and conservation
keywords: Energy and natural resources
keywords: Social welfare systems/structures
keywords: Social Sciences
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keywords: Sociology
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keywords: CORS
publisher: Umeå University
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spatial coverage: Sweden
temporal coverage: 2001-01-01/2001-03-31
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Umeå University
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department: Department of Sociology

English
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Swedish
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alternate name: swe

Environment and conservation
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description: Covers issues of environmental degradation, pollution, environmental protection, climate change, flood prevention, soil erosion.
term code: NaturalEnvironment.EnvironmentAndConservation

Energy and natural resources
type: DefinedTerm
description: Natural resources are assets such as land, forests, energy sources, water, minerals which exist naturally and can be used for economic production or consumption. Energy resources include fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas or coal, as well as nuclear, solar, tidal and wind or from living organisms that can be replaced.
term code: NaturalEnvironment.EnergyAndNaturalResources

Social welfare systems/structures
type: DefinedTerm
description: Issues related to the actual provision of social welfare, who provides social welfare services in practice and to what extent, how the actual services are structured. For example, questions on how a local government has organised services for the elderly.
term code: SocialWelfarePolicyAndSystems.SocialWelfareSystemsStructures

ENVIRONMENT
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SOCIAL WELFARE
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ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES
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SCIENCE
type: DefinedTerm

POLLUTION
type: DefinedTerm

GENETIC ENGINEERING
type: DefinedTerm
description: MANIPULATION OF THE GENOME OF A LIVING ORGANISM

TRUST
type: DefinedTerm

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
type: DefinedTerm

TAXATION
type: DefinedTerm

Sweden
type: Place