British Social Attitudes Survey, 2000 (ICPSR 3899)

Version Date: Aug 6, 2004

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Principal Investigator(s):
National Centre for Social Research

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03899.v1

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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 in purpose 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. As in the past, the 2000 interview questionnaire contained a number of "core" questions covering the major topic areas of defense, the economy, labor market participation, and the welfare state. The 2000 self-enumerated questionnaire was devoted to a series of questions on a range of social, economic, political, and moral issues. Topics covered are: (1) political attitudes, (2) democracy and political participation, (3) constitutional change, (4) social trust, (5) public spending and welfare, (6) health care, (7) labor market issues, (8) cohabitation and marriage, (9) teenage pregnancies, (10) education, (11) transportation, and (12) genetics. 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 gathered included age, gender, education, occupation, household income, marital status, social class, and religious and political affiliations.

Citation

National Centre for Social Research. British Social Attitudes Survey, 2000  . [distributor], 2004-08-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03899.v1

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Subject Terms

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Time Period(s)

2000

Date of Collection

2000-06 -- 2000-11

Data Collection Notes

  1. (1) In 1999, Social and Community Planning Research (SCPR) became the National Centre for Social Research. (2) The data and documentation were provided to ICPSR by the UK Data Archive (UKDA). Under agreement with the UKDA, the data are disseminated as they were received, without additional processing by ICPSR. This agreement also provides that ICPSR will disseminate the data only for use within its member institutions. Persons from non-member institutions may request these data directly from the UKDA. (3) The data are provided as an SPSS portable file. (4) The documentation was converted to Portable Document Format (PDF) by the UKDA. The PDF documentation can also be downloaded from the UKDA Web site at http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/. (5) The codebook is provided by the principal investigator as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
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Sample

Multistage stratified random sample. The sample was drawn from the Postcode Address File.

Universe

Adults (18 and over) living in private households in Great Britain, excluding the "crofting counties" north of the Caledonian Canal.

Data Source

personal interviews, and self-enumerated questionnaires

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2004-08-06

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:
  • National Centre for Social Research. BRITISH SOCIAL ATTITUDES SURVEY, 2000. ICPSR version. London, England: National Centre for Social Research [producer], 2000. Colchester, Essex, England: United Kingdom Data Archive/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 2004. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03899.v1
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