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They survey was conducted by Alex Inkeles.
The data was collected through personal interviews.
The data was distributed by the Roper Public Opinion Research Center.

The six nations were Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Nigeria, and Pakistan.

The object of the multinational survey was to find out whether and how work in factories or similar enterprises changes attitudes, values and habits and ways which are relevant to the individual;s adjustment in and contribution to a modern or modernizing society.

Variable categories include:

• Relatives: urban-rural, visiting, obligations to, choice of spouse, parents and married children.
• Family size and planning: ideal number of children, preferred sex of child, attitude towards birth control.
• Sentence completion of attitudes towards work.
• Work commitment: preference for factory or farm job, rank order of easy job, lucrative, prestigious, pleasurable, good boss, determination of pay scale.
• ChangeL respect for elders, freedom of women, opportunities to advance, religion, responsiveness of government, educational opportunities.
• National/international matters: problems facing country, vote for woman, peace, behaviour toward a defeated enemy, placement of Washington and Moscow.
• Work Experiences: ideal job, farming vs factory work, change in fellow workers, supervisor's treatment.
• Marital roles: dutiful vs affectionate wife, discuss religion, work, politics with wife, housework, family spokesman, treatment of wife who spends too much money.
• Strangers and neighbours: attitude toward man who doesn't worry, time in friendship, man with different religion, different country, trust of strangers, honest tradesman.
  Technical skill: economic worth of various factory positions, teacher, farm labourer.
• Childhood experience: raised by parents, pushed to solve problems, parental promises, parents active or passive planners, humiliation.
• Consumption: recognition of consumer items, ownerships of items, desire to own items.
• Son valuation: career preference, initiative, considerate vs self-serving, responsibility, planning ahead; son improve himself over the father; boy's dignity vs man's, education vs supporting family, emphasis of family traditional vs modern, value of mechanical skills, active vs passive, human nature be changed, poor boy get ahead, value of education, planning ahead, understanding natural disasters.
• Role of old people: value and anticipation, problem work situation.
• Community problems: most important problem, self vs government, organizations, type of organizations, letters to officials, number of times voted, concern over issues, national vs local leadership.
• Social stratification: personal view of social status, of farmers, factory workers, moving up in status, family or work important in increasing status, elements in status, friendly high status groups.
• Self valuation: identification with work, more important to be worker, family man, or friend, decision-making, relocate for higher standard of living, preference for rural or urban, meeting new people, first person to tell if you had a serious disease, longest trip, ho often prays, fasts.
• Psychosomatic symptoms: sleep, trembling, nervousness, heart, fingernail biting, shortness of breath, sweaty palms, headaches, dreams, .
• Educational and occupational aspirations: necessary schooling, value of education, teachers, importance of time.
• Religion: importance of prayer, working hard, kindness to family, getting ahead, goodness dependant on religion, holy man vs factory owner, literacy test.
• Information media: how often, listens to radio, sources of information, foreign influences from movies, preference for local, national or international news, identification of Johnson, Nehru, MacNamara, McCormack.
• Citizenship: qualifications for high office, rights of citizen, personally influence of ordinary people on government.
  Experience at workL job satisfaction, evaluation of factory or farm, importance of time, planning ahead, adequacy of staff and tools, foreman, humiliation, promotion, work incentive, opposites test.
• Miscellany: girl working, outside town, relation of possessions to happiness, prayer vs medical care in sickness, future determined by fate or effort, family vs nation, study of plant and animal reproduction.
• Additional: factory statistics, supervisor rating, interviewer's data, including payments to respondents.
• Demographic: age, marital status, parents' education, occupation, and earnings, ethnic background, religion, national background, education, social relationships, occupation and work history, organization memberships, literacy.

The codebook for this dataset is available through the UBC Library catalogue, with call number HN980 .I548 1978.