British Social Attitudes Survey, 1993

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Label

British Social Attitudes Survey, 1993

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Social and Community Planning Research

Author

• Social and Community Planning Research

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• Social Security
• attitudes
• capital punishment
• charitable donations
• child care
• civil rights
• crime
• defense (military)
• drugs
• economic conditions
• economic issues
• education
• environment
• ethnicity
• government programs
• government spending
• health care
• housing
• internal political conflict
• international relations
• labor markets
• layoffs
• leisure
• marital relations
• morality
• national economy
• news media
• political issues
• political participation
• public confidence
• racial attitudes
• religious attitudes
• sexual behavior
• smoking
• social attitudes
• social change
• social issues
• survey
• transportation
• trends
• values
• voting behavior
• AIDS
• work attitudes
• welfare services
• Ecology
• European Union
• Sex

Genre

• survey

Summary

This survey is part of a continuing series designed to monitor trends in a wide range of social attitudes in Great Britain. The British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) is similar to the General Social Survey carried out by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) in the United States. The BSA questionnaire has two parts, one administered by an interviewer and the other completed by the respondent. The 1993 self-enumerated questionnaire was devoted to a series of questions on a range of social, economic, political, and moral issues. Topics covered (by section) are: (1) government spending, the National Health Service, (2) labor market participation, the workplace, redundancy, employee decision-making, (3) AIDS, the countryside, (4) primary and secondary school education, transportation, the environment, (5) Northern Ireland, the European Community, (6) charitable giving, economic issues and policies (including income and taxation), (7) illegal drugs, social security benefits, child maintenance, (8) sexual relations, (9) housing, (10) religious denomination and attendance, and (11) ethnic origin. Beginning in 1985, an international initiative funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), also contributed a module to the BSA. The topic of the ISSP module in this collection was the environment. Additional demographic data included age, education, income, marital status, and religious and political affiliations