International Social Survey Programme - ISSP-NL 2007-2008 Leisure & Sports / Religion IV

The modules 2007 (“Leisure and Sports”) and 2008 (“Religion IV”) of the International Social Survey Programme in the Netherlands [ISSP-NL] were conducted in 2008 as a stand-alone postal survey at the Free University Amsterdam [VUA] (Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Research Methodology) by Harry B.G. Ganzeboom [principal investigator] and Heike Schroeder [fieldwork manager]. As of 2005, VUA has taken over the national ISSP membership for the Netherlands, formerly held by the Social and Cultural Planning Office [SCP] in The Hague, with Jos Becker as principal investigator. Funding for the 2007-2008 data collection was supplied by the VUA and Radboud University Nijmegen. Nijmegen’s contribution made it possible to double the number of respondents for the Religion module, as well as expand the number of questions asked in this module, in order to collect data for the NORFACE project 'Extending and enhancing the ISSP 2008 module on religion' [PI: David Voas, University of Manchester; Dutch Partner: Ariana Need, Radboud University Nijmegen]. Note that this dataset is more elaborate than the Dutch part of the international ISSP file archived at GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany.