In the first quarter of 2024, almost two-thirds percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth. Income inequality in the U.S. Despite the idea that the United States is a country where hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will inevitably lead to success, this is often not the case. In 2023, 7.4 percent of U.S. households had an annual income under 15,000 U.S. dollars. With such a small percentage of people in the United States owning such a vast majority of the country’s wealth, the gap between the rich and poor in America remains stark. The top one percent The United States follows closely behind China as the country with the most billionaires in the world. Elon Musk alone held around 219 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Over the past 50 years, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio has exploded, causing the gap between rich and poor to grow, with some economists theorizing that this gap is the largest it has been since right before the Great Depression.

In 2022, the majority of Indian adults had a wealth of 10,000 U.S. dollars or less. On the other hand, about *** percent were worth more than *********** dollars that year. India The Republic of India is one of the world’s largest and most economically powerful states. India gained independence from Great Britain on August 15, 1947, after having been under their power for 200 years. With a population of about *** billion people, it was the second most populous country in the world. Of that *** billion, about **** million lived in New Delhi, the capital. Wealth inequality India suffers from extreme income inequality. It is estimated that the top 10 percent of the population holds ** percent of the national wealth. Billionaire fortune has increase sporadically in the last years whereas minimum wages have remain stunted.

In the financial year 2021, a majority of Indian households fell under the aspirers category, earning between ******* and ******* Indian rupees a year. On the other hand, about ***** percent of households that same year, accounted for the rich, earning over * million rupees annually. The middle class more than doubled that year compared to ** percent in financial year 2005. Middle-class income group and the COVID-19 pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic specifically during the lockdown in March 2020, loss of incomes hit the entire household income spectrum. However, research showed the severest affected groups were the upper middle- and middle-class income brackets. In addition, unemployment rates were rampant nationwide that further lead to a dismally low GDP. Despite job recoveries over the last few months, improvement in incomes were insignificant. Economic inequality While India maybe one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it is also one of the most vulnerable and severely afflicted economies in terms of economic inequality. The vast discrepancy between the rich and poor has been prominent since the last ***** decades. The rich continue to grow richer at a faster pace while the impoverished struggle more than ever before to earn a minimum wage. The widening gaps in the economic structure affect women and children the most. This is a call for reinforcement in in the country’s social structure that emphasizes access to quality education and universal healthcare services.

The system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany - developed in its original version as part of the SPES project under the direction of Wolfgang Zapf - provides quantitative information on levels, distributions and changes in quality of life, social progress and social change in Germany from 1950 to 2013, i.e. over a period of more than sixty years. With the approximately 400 objective and subjective indicators that the indicator system comprises in total, it claims to measure welfare and quality of life in Germany in a differentiated way across various areas of life and to monitor them over time. In addition to the indicators for 13 areas of life, including income, education and health, a selection of cross-cutting global welfare measures were also included in the indicator system, i.e. general welfare indicators such as life satisfaction, social isolation or the Human Development Index. Based on available data from official statistics and survey data, time series were compiled for all indicators, ideally with annual values from 1950 to 2013. Around 90 of the indicators were marked as "key indicators" in order to highlight central dimensions of welfare and quality of life across the various areas of life. The further development and expansion, regular maintenance and updating as well as the provision of the data of the system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany have been among the tasks of the Center for Social Indicator Research, which is based at GESIS, since 1987. For a detailed description of the system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany, see the study description under "Other documents". The data on the area of life: Global Welfare Measures Social prosperity: GDP per capita. Social welfare: human development, social security, social integration. Subjective well-being: well-being - cognitive, well-being - affective, concern. Das System sozialer Indikatoren für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland – in seiner ursprünglichen Version im Rahmen des SPES-Projekts unter der Leitung von Wolfgang Zapf entwickelt – bietet quantitative Informationen zu Niveaus, Verteilungen und Veränderungen der Lebensqualität, gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt und sozialen Wandel in Deutschland von 1950 bis 2013, also über einen Zeitraum von mehr als sechzig Jahren. Mit den ca. 400 objektiven und subjektiven Indikatoren, die das Indikatorensystem insgesamt umfasst, wird beansprucht, Wohlfahrt und Lebensqualität in Deutschland über verschiedene Lebensbereiche hinweg differenziert zu messen und im Zeitverlauf zu beobachten. Neben den Indikatoren für 13 Lebensbereiche, u.a. Einkommen, Bildung und Gesundheit, wurde zudem eine Auswahl von bereichsübergreifenden globalen Wohlfahrtsmaßen in das Indikatorensystem einbezogen, d.h. allgemeine Wohlfahrtsindikatoren, wie z.B. die Lebenszufriedenheit, soziale Isolierung oder der Human Development Index. Basierend auf verfügbaren Daten der amtlichen Statistik und Umfragedaten wurden für sämtliche Indikatoren Zeitreihen zusammengestellt, im Idealfall mit jährlichen Werten von 1950 bis 2013. Von den Indikatoren wurden ca. 90 als “Schlüsselindikatoren” markiert, um zentrale Dimensionen von Wohlfahrt und Lebensqualität über die verschiedenen Lebensbereiche hinweg hervorzuheben. Die Weiterentwicklung und Erweiterung, die regelmäßige Pflege und Aktualisierung sowie die Bereitstellung der Daten des Systems sozialer Indikatoren für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland gehörte seit 1987 zu den Aufgaben des bei GESIS angesiedelten Zentrums für Sozialindikatorenforschung. Für eine ausführliche Darstellung des Systems sozialer Indikatoren für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland vgl. die Studienbeschreibung unter „Andere Dokumente“. Die Daten zu dem Lebensbereich ‚Globale Wohlfahrtsmaße‘ setzen sich wie folgt zusammen: Gesellschaftlicher Wohlstand: BIP pro Kopf. Gesellschaftliche Wohlfahrt: Human Development, Soziale Sicherung, Soziale Integration. Subjektives Wohlbefinden: Wohlbefinden - kognitiv, Wohlbefinden - affektiv, Besorgnis. Sources: Official statistics, Large survey programs. Quellen: Amtliche Statistiken, große Umfrageprogramme.

About this dataset

Context

The dataset tabulates the data for the Social Circle, GA population pyramid, which represents the Social Circle population distribution across age and gender, using estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates. It lists the male and female population for each age group, along with the total population for those age groups. Higher numbers at the bottom of the table suggest population growth, whereas higher numbers at the top indicate declining birth rates. Furthermore, the dataset can be utilized to understand the youth dependency ratio, old-age dependency ratio, total dependency ratio, and potential support ratio.

Key observations

• Youth dependency ratio, which is the number of children aged 0-14 per 100 persons aged 15-64, for Social Circle, GA, is 26.7.
• Old-age dependency ratio, which is the number of persons aged 65 or over per 100 persons aged 15-64, for Social Circle, GA, is 18.1.
• Total dependency ratio for Social Circle, GA is 44.8.
• Potential support ratio, which is the number of youth (working age population) per elderly, for Social Circle, GA is 5.5.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates.

Age groups:

• Under 5 years
• 5 to 9 years
• 10 to 14 years
• 15 to 19 years
• 20 to 24 years
• 25 to 29 years
• 30 to 34 years
• 35 to 39 years
• 40 to 44 years
• 45 to 49 years
• 50 to 54 years
• 55 to 59 years
• 60 to 64 years
• 65 to 69 years
• 70 to 74 years
• 75 to 79 years
• 80 to 84 years
• 85 years and over

Variables / Data Columns

• Age Group: This column displays the age group for the Social Circle population analysis. Total expected values are 18 and are define above in the age groups section.
• Population (Male): The male population in the Social Circle for the selected age group is shown in the following column.
• Population (Female): The female population in the Social Circle for the selected age group is shown in the following column.
• Total Population: The total population of the Social Circle for the selected age group is shown in the following column.

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Margin of Error

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Topics: Social background and good relations as most important prerequisites for success in the society; most important criteria for social mobility (scale: personal effort, intelligence or corruption); reasons for and acceptance of social inequality; Self-assessment of payment suitable for performance; estimation of actual and adequate monthly income for occupational groups; responsibility of government to reduce income differences; attitude to a progressive tax rate; assessment of the economic differences between poor and rich countries; attitude towards compensation by additional taxes in the wealthy countries (Redistribution); justification of better medical supply and better education for people with higher income; assumption of conflicts between social groups in the country; self-assessment on a top-bottom-scale and expectation of the individual level in 10 years; social mobility; criteria for the classification of payment for work (scale: responsibility, education, supervisor function, needed support for family and children or quality of job performance); feeling of a just payment; characterisation of the actual and the desired social system of the country, measured by classification on pyramid diagrams; Self-assessment of the respondent as well as classification of an unskilled factory worker and a chairman of a large corporation on a top-bottom-scale; number of books in the parental home in the respondent’s youth.

Please Note: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at GESIS at https://doi.org/10.4232/1.3430. We highly recommend using the GESIS version as they have made this dataset available in multiple data formats.

The second of 20 years of International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys within New Zealand by Professor Philip Gendall, Department of Marketing, Massey University. A verbose rundown on topics covered follows.Judgement on social justice and social differences in the country. Social prestige of respondents and selected occupations. Most important prerequisites for personal success in society (scale); attitude to the welfare state and social differences (scale); chances to increase personal standard of living; importance of differentiated payment; higher payment with acceptance of increased responsibility; higher payment as incentive for additional qualification of workers.Avoidability of inequality of society; increased income expectation as motive for taking up studies; good profits for entrepreneurs as best prerequisite for increase in general standard of living; insufficient solidarity of the normal population as reason for the persistence of social inequalities; estimate of average annual income of selected occupational groups and information on a justified income for the members of these occupational groups from the point of view of the respondent.Judgement on the income differences in the country; reduction of income differences, employment guarantee, guaranteed minimum income and equal opportunities for children of poorer families in university admission as government task; attitude to a reduction of government tasks for those of low income; approval of government support for unemployed; judgement on total taxation for recipients of high, middle and low income.Perceived social conflicts in the country; self-classification on a top-bottom scale; social mobility; social origins; education status, responsibility accepted, span of control, family responsibility, good work performance or hard work as most important criteria for establishing work pay; income increase or income reduction of individual income in case of a hypothetical equalization of the total income of the population; personal self-employment and occupation at start of employment.Description of current condition of social pyramid as well as assessment of the situation 30 years ago as well as in 30 years; self-classification on a social prestige scale as well as classification of selected occupations; hours worked each week; employment in private or public sector; span of control; company size; personal union membership and membership of spouse; religiousness; self-classification of social class affiliation; party preference; party inclination; residential status; self-classification on a left-right scale; regional origins.

The Mutual Information System on Social Protection of the Council of Europe (MISSCEO) aims to promote the exchange of information on social protection in the member states of the Council of Europe (which are European countries that are not members of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) and Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Its website provides regularly updated comparatives tables and country information on social protection systems since 1999. The tables follow the structure of the MISSOC tables.

Oman Government Expenditure: Contributions & OE: Social Protection System Subsidy data was reported at 47.000 OMR mn in Oct 2024. This stayed constant from the previous number of 47.000 OMR mn for Sep 2024. Oman Government Expenditure: Contributions & OE: Social Protection System Subsidy data is updated monthly, averaging 0.000 OMR mn from Jan 2023 (Median) to Oct 2024, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 47.000 OMR mn in Oct 2024 and a record low of 0.000 OMR mn in Nov 2023. Oman Government Expenditure: Contributions & OE: Social Protection System Subsidy data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Finance. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Oman – Table OM.F002: Government Revenue and Expenditure.

We summarize the key points of various social insurance and pension systems in our country and regularly update their operation to facilitate understanding of the current status of our country's pension system by all sectors. The information includes labor insurance, military insurance, public servants' insurance, farmers' health insurance, national pension, labor retirement pension system, military and public servants' retirement and relief system, and private school faculty retirement and relief system.

The ninth of 20 years of successful surveys for the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in New Zealand, run by Professor Philip Gendall in the Department of Marketing at Massey University.ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies. ISSP researchers especially concentrate on developing questions that are meaningful and relevant to all countries, and can be expressed in an equivalent manner in all relevant languages.Selection was via systematic random sampling of the electoral rolls.A verbose rundown on topics covered follows.Attitudes towards social inequality. Social background and good relations as most important prerequisites for success in the society; most important criteria for social mobility (scale: personal effort, intelligence or corruption); reasons for and acceptance of social inequality; self-assessment of payment suitable for performance; estimation of actual and adequate monthly income for occupational groups; responsibility of government to reduce income differences; attitude to a progressive tax rate; assessment of the economic differences between poor and rich countries; attitude towards compensation by additional taxes in the wealthy countries (redistribution).Justification of better medical supply and better education for people with higher income; assumption of conflicts between social groups in the country; self-assessment on a top-bottom-scale and expectation of the individual level in 10 years; social mobility; criteria for the classification of payment for work (scale: responsibility, education, supervisor function, needed support for family and children or quality of job performance); feeling of a just payment; characterisation of the actual and the desired social system of the country, measured by classification on pyramid diagrams; Self-assessment of the respondent as well as classification of an unskilled factory worker and a chairman of a large corporation on a top-bottom-scale; number of books in the parental home in the respondent’s youth.Demography: Age; sex; living together with a partner; marital status; school education; denomination; occupation status; profession (ISCO code); occupation in the public sector; autonomy; working hours per week; net income of the respondent; supervisor function; occupation status, profession and supervisor function of the partner; household structure; family income; size of household; city size; region; own unemployment within the last few years and duration of this unemployment; religiousness; frequency of going to church; forms of the faith in God; Self-assessment of the social class; union membership; party preference; participation in elections; Living situation and living status; in some countries: ethnic membership of the respondent.

The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuous programme of cross-national collaboration running annual surveys on topics important for the social sciences. The programme started in 1984 with four founding members - Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States – and has now grown to almost 50 member countries from all over the world. As the surveys are designed for replication, they can be used for both, cross-national and cross-time comparisons. Each ISSP module focuses on a specific topic, which is repeated in regular time intervals. Please, consult the documentation for details on how the national ISSP surveys are fielded. The present study focuses on questions about social inequality. Most important prerequisites for personal success in society (scale); attitude to the welfare state and social differences (scale); chances to increase personal standard of living; importance of differentiated payment; higher payment with acceptance of increased responsibility; higher payment as incentive for additional qualification of workers; avoidability of inequality of society; increased income expectation as motive for taking up studies; good profits for entrepreneurs as best prerequisite for increase in general standard of living; insufficient solidarity of the normal population as reason for the persistence of social inequalities; estimate of average annual income of selected occupational groups and information on a justified income for the members of these occupational groups from the point of view of the respondent; judgement on the income differences in the country; reduction of income differences, employment guarantee, guaranteed minimum income and equal opportunities for children of poorer families in university admission as government task; attitude to a reduction of government tasks for those of low income; approval of government support for unemployed; judgement on total taxation for recipients of high, middle and low income; perceived social conflicts in the country; self-classification on a top-bottom scale; social mobility; social origins; education status, responsibility accepted, span of control, family responsibility, good work performance or hard work as most important criteria for establishing work pay; income increase or income reduction of individual income in case of a hypothetical equalization of the total income of the population; personal self-employment and occupation at start of employment; description of current condition of social pyramid as well as assessment of the situation 30 years ago as well as in 30 years; self-classification on a social prestige scale as well as classification of selected occupations; hours worked each week; employment in private or public sector; span of control; company size; personal union membership and membership of spouse; religiousness; self-classification of social class affiliation; party preference; party inclination; residential status; self-classification on a left-right scale; regional origins. Das International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) ist ein länderübergreifendes, fortlaufendes Umfrageprogramm, das jährlich Erhebungen zu Themen durchführt, die für die Sozialwissenschaften wichtig sind. Das Programm begann 1984 mit vier Gründungsmitgliedern - Australien, Deutschland, Großbritannien und den Vereinigten Staaten - und ist inzwischen auf fast 50 Mitgliedsländer aus aller Welt angewachsen. Da die Umfragen auf Replikationen ausgelegt sind, können die Daten sowohl für länder- als auch für zeitübergreifende Vergleiche genutzt werden. Jedes ISSP-Modul konzentriert sich auf ein bestimmtes Thema, das in regelmäßigen Zeitabständen wiederholt wird. Details zur Durchführung der nationalen ISSP-Umfragen entnehmen Sie bitte der Dokumentation. Die vorliegende Studie konzentriert sich auf Fragen zu sozialer Ungleichheit. Wichtigste Voraussetzungen für persönlichen Erfolg der Gesellschaft (Skala); Einstellung zum Sozialstaat und zu sozialen Unterschieden (Skala); Chancen zur Erhöhung des eigenen Lebensstandards; Wichtigkeit differenzierter Bezahlung; höhere Bezahlung bei Übernahme erhöhter Verantwortung; Mehrbezahlung als Anreiz für zusätzliche Qualifikation von Arbeitern; Vermeidbarkeit von Ungleichheit der Gesellschaft; erhöhte Einkommenserwartung als Motiv für die Aufnahme eines Studiums; gute Gewinne der Unternehmer als beste Voraussetzung für die Erhöhung des allgemeinen Lebensstandards; mangelnder Zusammenhalt der normalen Bevölkerung als Grund für die Persistenz sozialer Ungleichheiten; Schätzung des durchschnittlichen Jahreseinkommens ausgewählter Berufsgruppen und Angabe eines aus Sicht des Befragten gerechtfertigten Einkommens für die Mitglieder dieser Berufsgruppen; Beurteilung der Einkommensdifferenzen im Lande; Reduktion von Einkommensunterschieden, Beschäftigungsgarantie, garantiertes Mindesteinkommen und Chancengleichheit für Kinder ärmerer Familien beim Universitätszugang als Staatsaufgabe; Einstellung zu einer Reduktion der staatlichen Aufgaben für Einkommensschwache; Befürwortung staatlicher Unterstützung für Arbeitslose; Beurteilung der Gesamtbesteuerung für Bezieher hoher, mittlerer und niedriger Einkommen; perzipierte soziale Konflikte im Lande; Selbsteinstufung auf einer Oben-Unten- Skala; soziale Mobilität; soziale Herkunft; Ausbildungsstand, übernommene Verantwortung, Kontrollspanne, Familienverantwortung, gute Arbeitsleistung oder harte Arbeit als wichtigste Kriterien für die Festlegung eines Beschäftigungsentgeltes; Einkommenserhöhung oder Einkommensreduktion des individuellen Einkommens im Falle einer angenommenen Egalisierung der Gesamteinkommen der Bevölkerung; eigene Selbständigkeit und Beruf bei Beschäftigungseinstieg; Beschreibung des derzeitigen Zustands der gesellschaftlichen Pyramide sowie Einschätzung der Situation vor 30 Jahren sowie in 30 Jahren; Selbsteinstufung auf einer gesellschaftlichen Prestigeskala sowie Einstufung ausgewählter Berufe; Wochenarbeitsstunden; Beschäftigung im privaten oder öffentlichen Sektor; Kontrollspanne; Betriebsgröße; eigene Gewerkschaftsmitgliedschaft und Mitgliedschaft des Ehepartners; Religiosität; Selbsteinstufung der sozialen Klassenzugehörigkeit; Parteipräferenz; Parteineigung; Wohnstatus; Selbsteinstufung auf einer Links-Rechts-Skala; regionale Herkunft.

Information system(s) used for management of municipally owned social and affordable housing assets for all provinces and territories, by urban and rural and population size. Values are presented for 2016.

Chile Banking System: Loans: Community, Social & Personal Services data was reported at 28,008,006.804 CLP mn in Feb 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 27,981,227.922 CLP mn for Jan 2025. Chile Banking System: Loans: Community, Social & Personal Services data is updated monthly, averaging 23,908,953.372 CLP mn from Aug 2012 (Median) to Feb 2025, with 151 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 28,803,654.251 CLP mn in Mar 2024 and a record low of 12,677,066.073 CLP mn in Aug 2012. Chile Banking System: Loans: Community, Social & Personal Services data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Financial Market Commission. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Chile – Table CL.KB007: Banking System: Loans.

The nineteenth of 20 years of International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys in New Zealand by Professor Philip Gendall, Department of Marketing, Massey University.A verbose rundown on topics covered follows.Attitudes towards social inequality. Social background and good relations as most important prerequisites for success in society; most important criteria for social mobility (scale: personal effort, intelligence or corruption); reasons for and acceptance of social inequality; Self-assessment of payment suitable for performance; estimation of actual and adequate monthly income for occupational groups; responsibility of government to reduce income differences; attitude to a progressive tax rate.Assessment of the economic differences between poor and rich countries; attitude towards compensation by additional taxes in the wealthy countries (Redistribution); justification of better medical supply and better education for people with higher income; assumption of conflicts between social groups in the country; self-assessment on a top-bottom-scale and expectation of the individual level in 10 years; social mobility; criteria for the classification of payment for work (scale: responsibility, education, supervisor function, needed support for family and children or quality of job performance); feeling of a just payment.Characterisation of the actual and the desired social system of the country, measured by classification on pyramid diagrams; Self-assessment of the respondent as well as classification of an unskilled factory worker and a chairman of a large corporation on a top-bottom-scale; number of books in the parental home in the respondent’s youth.Demography: age; sex; living together with a partner; marital status; school education; denomination; occupation status; profession (ISCO code); occupation in the public sector; autonomy; working hours per week; net income of the respondent; supervisor function; occupation status, profession and supervisor function of the partner; household structure; family income; size of household; city size; region; own unemployment within the last few years and duration of this unemployment; religiousness; frequency of going to church; forms of the faith in God; Self-assessment of the social class; union membership; party preference; participation in elections; living situation and living status; in some countries: ethnic membership of the respondent.

Workers Covered by Social Insurance System (Private Sector) by Economic Activity, Nationality and Sex

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Argentina General Govt Expenditure: Social: Health: Social Security System: Employees data was reported at 4,834,072.609 ARS mn in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,119,505.684 ARS mn for 2022. Argentina General Govt Expenditure: Social: Health: Social Security System: Employees data is updated yearly, averaging 6,087.247 ARS mn from Dec 1980 (Median) to 2023, with 44 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4,834,072.609 ARS mn in 2023 and a record low of 0.000 ARS mn in 1980. Argentina General Govt Expenditure: Social: Health: Social Security System: Employees data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Argentina – Table AR.F012: Government Expenditure: General: Current Price.

If you’re a senior with low income, you may qualify for monthly Guaranteed Annual Income System payments.

Maximum payment and allowable private income amounts for the period from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 are:

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Trends and consequences of the social change; individual attitudes, values, orientations and social behavior. Cumulative data set. Topics: Job status; labor situation; social prestige; socio-economic position (scale); place of work characterized in terms of ownership, branch of industry and size; experiences and periods of unemployment; job status of his/her spouse and parents; occupational intergenerational mobility; first job, evaluation of the place of work and occupation within one's own value system, job security; satisfaction with the job; education of parents and spouse; perception of the role of education; school ownership (state/private) and place; degrees and occupational titles obtained; social background; geographical mobility; marriage and family structure; attitudes towards family and the situation of women; socialization; one's own economic situation and that of the family; individual and household income; dwelling situation; position of household goods; debt and savings of the household; satisfaction with individual income and the economic situation of the family; current state of changes of the economic situation in Poland; economic distributive justice; distribution of incomes; acceptance of economic inequalities among different occupations and social strata; social position and its changes; encompassing class-strata identification; one's own present and past social position; self-evaluation of occupational, economic and educational status in comparison to that of the parents; judgment on social structure, social inequalities and systemic changes in Poland; assessment of factors determining success in life; perception of mechanisms creating social inequalities and determining levels of poverty and wealth; voting behavior and preferences; participation in presidential elections of 1990 1991, 1993, 1995 and in 1997 parliamentary elections and constitutional referendum; vote intention 1999; efficacy of the political system and democracy; trust in main social and political institutions; criteria for governing distribution of budgetary funds for different public goals; political and ideological orientations; interest in politics and public life; preferred political goals; postulated role of government in economy and public life; opinions on communism and socialism; self-identification on a left-right scale, tolerance toward communists, atheists and militarists; threats to Poland's independence from other countries; religious denomination and frequency of religious practices; strength of belief; belief in a life after death; trust in the Catholic Church, evaluation of the church and denominational organization influence on public life; tolerance toward atheists; attitudes toward contemporary ethical dilemmas (abortion, divorce, euthanasia, capital punishment) and law-abidance; satisfaction with one's own life in society; satisfaction with different domains of life (family, marriage, social, economic and professional situation) and their importance to the individual; measures of painful and joyful experiences; the will to live; joyfulness and happiness; trust in other people; state of health; smoking and alcohol consumption. In addition separate modules from the international comparative research project ISSP are included in the cumulative data set: Social Inequalities (1992), Environmental Protection (1993), Family and Social Roles of Women (1994), Sexual Experiences suplement (1994), National Identity (1995), Work Orientations II (split A in 1997) and Role of Government III (split B in 1997), Social Inequalities III (split A in 1999) and Religion (split B in 1999).