ISSP – International Social Survey Programme

The Social Science Research Centre is the Irish member of ISSP. The ISSP is a continuing programme of cross-national collaboration bringing together existing social science research programmes in 41 member countries. The ISSP plans and implements an annual survey on a specific research issue. It brings member organisations together to design and field the research modules in a rigorously controlled manner to ensure strict comparability of the data. Each research organisation funds its own costs and there are no central funds. The ISSP data is merged into a cross-national data set annually and made available to the social science research community. 

Questionnaires, datasets and codebooks for most of the modules Ireland participated in, can be obtained here.

Questionnaires and datasets for other participating countries are availabe from the ISSP website.

For further details about Ireland's involvement in the ISSP, click here.

To view selected publications/working papers based on Irish ISSP data, click here.