The document discusses the preparation and implementation of the ISSP 2022 questionnaire focused on family and changing gender roles, decided at the ISSP General Assembly in 2019. It includes a detailed question selection process, the introduction of new topics, and emphasizes the ideological divides in Greek society regarding family structures and LGBTQ+ rights. The project is part of the Greek national recovery plan and aims to analyze voting behavior and attitudes towards inclusiveness among Greek political elites and the general public.

1. Paper prepared for the panel “Studying Voting Behaviour with ISSP data”
Nikoletta Sivenou, Ioannis Andreadis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
ECPR General Conference 2024, University College Dublin
Dublin, 12-15 August 2024
Voting Behaviour and Attitudes
towards Changing Gender Roles and
Family

2. Question Selection Process
 The topic of Family and Changing Gender Roles V
questionnaire was decided at the regular annual
meeting of the ISSP General Assembly in 2019.
 Drafting group: Sweden (Convener), India,
Slovakia, Turkey and Switzerland.
 ISSP 2022 contains 45 replicate items and 20 new
items.
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3. Question Selection Process
 Search of recent journal articles, in order to
collect information and establish the use of items
included in the corresponding ISSP questionnaire
in 2012 and their quality.
 Draft of the questionnaire distributed to the
member countries of the International Social
Survey Programme (ISSP) for comments.
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4. ISSP 2022 Topics
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Replicate Topics
Gender ideology
Female employment across the lifecycle:
attitudes and behavior
Attitudes towards marriage
Organizing income in a partnership
Gendered division of household work
Power and decision-making within partnership
Work-family conflict
Happiness and satisfaction
Gender and social care policy (private vs. political solutions)
Attitudes towards children
Preferred and actual gendered division of social care/ household work vs. paid work
Alternative family forms
Additional demographic variables

5. ISSP 2022 Topics
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New Topics
Family definitions and family solidarity
- what constitutes a family and how close are members of the family
Perception of motherhood and fatherhood
– important duties of a mother vs. a father
Ideal living arrangements
- a recommendation to young women and men how to “arrange” their lives
Family constellation
– [optional battery]
Income insecurity
Gender inequality
– widening topic – preferred gender: child, political leaders
Single items (2)
– ideal number of children, mothers’ & fathers’ caring responsibilities.

6. Implementation in Greece
 Before the questionnaire was available to the
public, the students of the course “Political Web
Surveys” were invited to fill in the relevant
questionnaire and give their comments on the
language it was used.
 These comments were taken into account to
improve the translation of the questionnaire.
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7. Implementation in Greece
 The International Social Survey on the Family and
Changing Gender Roles 2022, which was carried
out using an online questionnaire, was approved
by the AUTH Research Ethics Committee.
 Showing that the questionnaire fully complies
with the principles and values stated in the Code
of Ethics of the above-mentioned competent
Committee of AUTH improves response rates.
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8. Implementation in Greece: ISSP 2022
and 2023
 For a subset of the respondents, we created a
questionnaire which contains both the questions
of the ISSP 2022 focused on family and changing
gender roles and the questions of the ISSP 2023
about national identity and citizenship. So, the
randomly selected participants of the
consolidated questionnaire firstly answered the
questions of the ISSP 2022 and immediately after
the questions of the ISSP 2023.
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9. Items for DATIS
 Main objectives of the DATIS are:
• to provide an in-depth and integrated quantitative
framework of analysis for the foes and friends of
inclusiveness in Greece.
• to trace and analyze the attitudes towards inclusive
societies among the Greek political elites and political
parties.
• to measure levels of hostility towards inclusive
society at the mass level.
 For this reason, we use items from ISSP 2022 survey,
in order to collect data about alternative family
forms.
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10. Items for DATIS
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11. Data Analysis
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12. Data Analysis
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13. Data Analysis
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14. Conclusions
 Progressive and left-wing parties' voters support the
statement that a single mother can bring up her child as well
as a married couple vs conservative and right-wing parties'
voters.
 Progressive and left-wing parties' voters support the
statement that same-sex male couples can bring up a child
as well as a male-female couple vs conservative and right-
wing parties' voters.
 Progressive and left-wing parties' voters typically disagree
with the statement that marriage should be a prerequisite
for having children.
 What do ND and Greek Solution voters think about children
without marriage?
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15. Conclusions
 Significant ideological divides in Greek society
about family structures and LGBTQ+ rights,
influenced by political party affiliation and broader
social beliefs.
 Some preliminary findings using data from the
survey that included both ISSP 2022 and ISSP 2023
questionnaires.
 More comprehensive and complex analyses will
follow once the entire dataset ISSP 2022 has been
fully cleaned and processed.
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16. Stay in touch
 If you are interested in using the data from previous
similar surveys (ISSP 2012) and from other countries,
you can follow the link:
https://www.gesis.org/en/issp/home
 Soon, the data for ISSP 2022 will be uploaded on the
GESIS website.
Datis Project: https://datis.gr/
Facebook: DATIS
Instagram: @datis_project
Twitter/X: @Datis_project
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17. Thank you for your attention!
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• This project is carried out within the framework of the
National Recovery and Resilience Plan Greece 2.0,
funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU
(Implementation body: HFRI).