SEESSP surveys

• Main fieldwork period December 2003 – March 2004

• Personal interviews with 21940 respondents

• 23 independent samples

• Approximately 535 individual-level variables

• 220 variables in all basic samples

• 102 “A” variables in ½ basic samples

• 83-120 “B” variables included in ½ basic samples

• 92 Country-specific variables

• Variables for contextual effects and multi-level analysis based on country, county, or municipality
   

The main themes of the surveys:

• Nationalism and national identity

• Ethnic group reconciliation

• Psychological social distances (to other ethnic groups)

• Attitudes to inequality

• Attitudes toward family and gender roles

• Religiosity

• Political participation and party preference

• War experiences (Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo)

• War traumas (Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo)
   

The themes covered were partly select from the questionnaires of an all Yugoslav survey from 1989 to make possible comparison in time, and partly from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) to make possible comparisons with other European countries.
 

Preliminary findings