SSÖ - Social Survey Austria

The Social Survey Austria (SSÖ) is a research program to monitor changes in attitudes and values in the Austrian population.

• The questionnaire consists of annual modules of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) which are fielded in about 45 countries, and a national section with questions on current Austrian social issues. The surveys are based on a representative sample of the Austrian resident population aged 16 and over.
• The teplication of sets of questions in the successive survey waves and the combination of SSÖ and ISSP make it possible to study societal developments and social change in Austria over time as well as in comparative perspective.
• The surveys are jointly designed by a team of social scientists from the Universities of Graz, Linz, Salzburg and Vienna. The SSÖ thus also fosters cooperation and networking among social scientists in Austria.
• So far, SSÖ has been conducted eight times - in the years 1986, 1993, 2003, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023 and 2024. In 2016, an additional survey was conducted among migrants with Turkish, Bosnian, Serbian or Croatian roots.
• The Austrian data are available at the Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA).
• The international datasets are archived at GESIS.
• All Data are available to interested users free of charge. A cumulative data set that includes the first four survey waves (1986 to 2016) is also available.

SSÖ VIII - 2024

The SSÖ Survey 2024 was conducted from January to March 2024 in a push-to-web design. Respondents were randomly selected and contacted by post. The final data set contains 1546 cases. It is currently being processed and will be available to the public at AUSSDA soon.

The central topics for the Social Survey 2024 were digitalisation, health and the perception of social problems as well as the social situation of the respondents.

• You can find the SSÖ VIII – 2024 data in the AUSSDA Dataverse.

For questions about the SSÖ VIII reports and methodology, please contact Dimitri Prandner or Otto Bodi-Fernandez.

Below you can find the data report on the results of the Social Survey 2024 (in German):

• Internetnutzung, Belästigung und Empowerment. Sozialer Survey 2024 – Datenreport 1 (; Schaffer, Rebecca)

SSÖ VII - 2023

The SSÖ Survey 2023 was conducted from January to March 2023 in a push-to-web design. Respondents were randomly selected and contacted by post. The final data set contains 1146 cases and is available to the public at AUSSDA.

The central topics for the Social Survey 2023 were national identity, family and gender roles as well as the social situation of the respondents.

• You can find the SSÖ VII - 2023 data in the AUSSDA Dataverse.

For questions about the SSÖ VII reports and the methodology, please contact Dimitri Prandner or Otto Bodi-Fernandez.

Below you can find all data reports on the results of the Social Survey 2023 (in German):

• Mütter zwischen neuen Rollen und alten Zuständigkeiten. Sozialer Survey 2023 - Datenreport 3 (; Wardana, Rebecca et al.)
• Einstellungen zu nationaler Identität, Nationalstolz, Migration, sowie Rechten und Pflichten in einer Demokratie. Sozialer Survey 2023 - Datenreport 2 (; Schaffer, Rebecca)
• Zukunftssorgen in der österreichischen Bevölkerung - Sozialer Survey 2023 - Datenreport 1 (, Prandner, Dimitri)

SSÖ VI - 2021

The planned 2020 SSÖ survey was postponed due to the Corona crisis, as a face-to-face survey was not possible at that time. The SSÖ then was conducted in summer 2021 as a mixed-mode survey with both phone and face-to-face interviews.

Central themes for the 2021 SSÖ were social inequality, environmental attitudes, and impacts of the Corona Crisis.

• You can find all data reports on the results of the Social Survey 2021 (in German) here.
• The datasets of the SSÖ 2021 are archived in the AUSSDA Dataverse.

SSÖ during the Corona crisis

In order to capture the societal impact of the Corona crisis, the SSÖ team participated in two survey programmes, namely the international Values in Crisis survey programme and the Austrian Corona Panel Project of the University of Vienna.