British Social Attitudes Survey, 1985
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
Social and Community Planning Research
attitudes
economic conditions
economic issues
education
employment
environmental attitudes
expectations
gender issues
government programs
government spending
health care services
housing
international relations
labor markets
mass media
morality
national economy
nuclear war
political attitudes
racial attitudes
religious attitudes
rural areas
social attitudes
social change
social issues
social values
technological change
trends
welfare services
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 had two parts, one administered by an interviewer and the other completed by the respondent. As in the past, the 1985 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 1985 self-enumerated questionnaire was devoted to a series of questions on a range of social, economic, political, and moral issues. Topics that received attention include: (1) media, politics, and international affairs, (2) economic expectations and evaluations and labor market participation, (3) social expenditure, welfare state issues, the National Health Service, and education, and (4) social class, religion, racial prejudice, gender issues, and public and private morality. Other questions covered the welfare state, environment, technology and employment, and nuclear war. 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 role of government. Additional demographic data gathered included age, gender, education, occupation, household income, marital status, social class, and religious and political affiliations.
8551
http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08551.v2
09-23-2004
survey data
personal interviews, and self-enumerated questionnaires
Great Britain
Global
1985