Information and Documents for ISSP Members

ISSP members here find information and materials designed to support them in preparing, documenting, and depositing their national data sets to the ISSP archive. ISSP members are obliged to follow the rules presented here, using the forms and templates offered. The data and documentation will then be used to compile the integrated analysis file and the Study Monitoring Report of each annual module.

• The first page, Depositing Data, describes the outline of the process of depositing data and documentation to the Archive, including the deadlines for depositing a given module’s data.
• The second page, General Materials, collects a set of materials (forms and templates) necessary for providing documentation items which are always part of a member’s data deposit and ensure compliance with the methodological rules of the ISSP. See also Coding Standards below.
• The third page, Module Standard Setups, collects another set of materials necessary for preparing a data deposit, most prominently the so-called Standard Setup files used to define the SPSS data file. Unlike the General Materials, these materials are specific to a given ISSP module, i.e., they change every year.
• The fourth page, Coding Standards, gives more detail about the coding standards to be used in files prepared for ISSP depositing. In particular, it offers the definition of coding frames for the mandatory ISSP Background Variables. Further, information on some common standard codes (countries, occupations, etc.) is provided here.
• Another page (to be created!) will collect miscellaneous information for ISSP members. This will comprise links to other ISSP related sites at GESIS.

Note: The ISSP Members Area is to be extended to support the work of different ISSP methods groups.