ISSP 1998 - Religion II: Sweden

They also had to describe their feelings about the Bible and answer questions about the meaning of life. A number of questions concerned the respondent's religious upbringing: religious preference of the parents, religion raised in, church attendance of parents and church attendance of the respondent in the age of 11-12. Questions about the present religious activities touched upon how often the respondent prays, takes part in religious activities, and how religious she/he consider herself/himself to be.

Other questions dealt with voluntary activites; confidence in different authorities and organizations; trust in people; religion vs. modern science; religious leaders right to interfere in elections and government decisions. Socio-economic background information include 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 attitude surveys. The study in 1998 investigating Religion.