Korean General Social Survey (KGSS), 2012 (ICPSR 35335)

Version Date: Oct 27, 2014

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Principal Investigator(s):
Sang-Wook Kim, Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea). Survey Research Center

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35335.v1

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Summary

The Korean General Social Survey (KGSS) is the South Korean version of the General Social Survey (GSS), closely replicating the original GSS of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. Each round of the KGSS typically includes the topical module surveys of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), and/or the East Asian Social Survey (EASS), an international survey network of four GSS-type surveys from countries in East Asia (including China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea). Respondents were asked about their trust of people and institutions, their opinions about Korean society, government performance, politics and political conditions, economic conditions, and voter participation. Additional questions were asked regarding social relationships, household and personal finances, women and family matters, household and family composition, occupation, internet usage, and respondent mental health. Demographic information includes age, sex, education level, household income, employment status, religious preference, political party affiliation, and political philosophy.

Citation

Kim, Sang-Wook. Korean General Social Survey (KGSS), 2012. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-10-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35335.v1

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Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

State

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2012-06 -- 2012-08

Date of Collection

2012-06 -- 2012-08

Data Collection Notes

  1. More information about Korean General Social Surveys can be found on the Survey Research Center (Sungkyunkwan University) Web site.

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Sample

Consistent with the requirements of ISSP and other GSS-type surveys, the sample for the KGSS is a national sample drawn by full probability sampling procedures. A more convenient quota sampling at the block level is not employed at all, simply because the quota sampling in terms of age and sex criteria, for instance, is vulnerable to a variety of misuses and abuses that result in serious sampling biases. The target universe of the KGSS is the adult population aged 18 or over who live in households of Korea. From this universe, a total of 2,000 individuals are sampled by the three-stage area probability sampling method. The total number of sample blocks (or clusters) is 200, and some 10 individuals are sampled from each block. First, the total sample blocks are distributed to 16 do's or si's at the province level, proportionate to the distribution of households in Korea. Second, in accordance with the PPS principle, a number of dong's and/or myun's (ward level administrative districts in cities and rural counties, respectively) are selected proportional to the number of sample blocks assigned to each province. Third, from each dong and myun selected, one sample block-tong-ban in dong or ri in myun-is randomly selected. Fourth, in each tong-ban or ri selected, about 10 households are randomly selected, a list is made of adult members aged 18 or over in each household with their dates of birth on it, and the person who has the birth date occurring first during the year is selected. For instance, in a household whose members have birthdays in April, February, November, and August, the very person with the birthday in February becomes the respondent. The multistage element in these sequential sampling procedures serves to narrow down the hierarchically stratified geographic areas into the lowest sample blocks, thereby enhancing the sample representativeness, while the cluster component there serves to maximize the efficiency of fieldwork operations.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

The adult population aged 18 or over who live in households of Korea.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

Approximately 60 percent.

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Original Release Date

2014-10-27

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Kim, Sang-Wook. Korean General Social Survey (KGSS), 2012. ICPSR35335-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-10-27. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35335.v1

2014-10-27 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The data are not weighted, however, this collection contains a weight variable (WEIGHT) that can be used in analysis. No additional information was provided about the weight.

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Notes