kossda-korea social science data archive

Principal Investigator(s)

Kim, Sang-Wook / Department of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University

Producer(s)

Survey Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University

Abstract

The「Korean General Social Survey (KGSS)」, through an annual national sample survey, aims to provide basic social science data made readily available for comprehensive use in the study of Korean social structure and its changes as well as international comparative studies. The KGSS was formulated after the「General Social Survey (GSS)」model of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, with the partial inclusions of contents from GSS models used in European and East Asian countries and accommodating the distinctive particularities of Korean society.
The questionnaire is made up of the replicating core questions, the annual topical modules of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) member states’ collaborative survey, topical modules of the East Asian Social Survey (EASS) the biannual collaborative survey of four member states including Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan, as well as topical modules for special research. This survey is the fourth annual KGSS following the previous surveys of 2003, 2004, and 2005. It includes the replicating core questions, the 2006 ISSP topical module Role of Government, and the 2006 EASS topical module Families in East Asia.

Keywords

KGSS Korean General Social Survey Korean General Social Survey trust distrust political attitudes reunification party politics vote capitalism enterprises corporations conglomerate chaebol labor unions newspaper (media) TV class consciousness economic outlook business outlook occupations family structure parent-child relationship social support care of dependants gender role marriage housework domestic work paterfamilias head of household policy government responsibility government role government spending political efficacy civil servants public officer corruption

Subjects

General

Series

Korean General Social Survey

Citation

Kim, Sang-Wook. Korean General Social Survey, 2006 [Dataset]. Survey Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2007-05-28, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-A1-2006-0003-V1.0.

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