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British Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup) Polls, 1938-1946
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This dataset comprises data from the 58 surviving BIPO polls conducted between 1938 and 1946.Main Topics:Questions cover domestic, foreign and military affairs, including:
- appeasement
- the progress and prosecution of the war
- whether to sue for peace with Germany, Italy and Japan
- satisfaction with...
Childtowns (1947-1980)
The network of 53 childtowns that were established by the Queen's Fund during the civil war played a vital role in the care, education and edification of orphan and poor children, and set the foundations for the current welfare system. The research began in 2009, focusing primarily on the Agia Sofia playground of Agria Volos and the experiences of the children who were...
Ziakas, Little Moscow of Grevena
Ethnography of the community of Ziaka Grevena for the 1940s. It explores the meaning that the residents of the village gave to EAM's message in the civil war that followed the liberation. Key to the interpretation were the events of the interwar period and the politicization of the inhabitants through the lines of the Rural Party and the KKE. After the end of the Civil War,...
Building a New Democracy? Television, Citizens and Voting in Russia, 2001
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The media played a critical role in bringing about the collapse of Communist rule in Russia as well as in building a post-communist state. While virtually all other institutions were discredited by the end of the Soviet era, the media remained credible to millions of Russian citizens, informing them on...
New Russia Barometer, 2000-2001
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Since the spring of 1991, the CSPP has been involved in more than 100 nationwide sample surveys in post-Communist countries. Each round of surveys asks a common core of questions, a unique source for monitoring trends within nations, and comparisons across nations. All research questions and analyses are...
Elite Young Muslims in Britain: Generational Experience and Political Participation, 2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection.
The role of young western Muslims in radical Islamic politics has become a prominent public policy issue, especially since 9/11. This research project explored the impact of global, national, local and personal events on the views and political activity of young...
Women Workers in the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory during World War Two, 1939-1945
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study is available via the UK Data Service QualiBank, an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service.
This is a qualitative data collection. The primary aim of the project was to record the experiences of some of the...
Content and Framing Study of United Kingdom Media Coverage of the Iraq War, 2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this project was to evaluate media performance during the 2003 Iraq War. The war provided a fascinating case study, creating unprecedented levels of popular and political dissent, while questions surrounding media coverage generated accusations of media bias. Through analysing the success...
New Russia Barometer XIII, 2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Since the spring of 1991, the CSPP has been involved in more than 100 nationwide sample surveys in post-Communist countries. Each round of surveys asks a common core of questions, a unique source for monitoring trends within nations, and comparisons across nations. All research questions and analyses are...
Regional Referendum Study, 2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This survey centred on the all-postal ballot referendum conducted in 2004, on whether there should be an elected regional assembly in the North East region (the referendum closed on 4 November 2004, with 78% of respondents voting against). The survey also covered the regions of the North West and...
Images of the World in the Year 2000; Great Britain National, 1967
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This inquiry into the views of the year 2000 held by the younger generation took place under the auspices of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences, established at Vienna, which was founded by UNESCO and which is a division of the International Social...
Images of the World in the Year 2000; Czechoslovakia, 1967
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This inquiry into the views of the year 2000 held by the younger generation took place under the auspices of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences, established at Vienna, which was founded by UNESCO and which is a division of the International Social...
Images of the World in the Year 2000; Spain, 1967
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This inquiry into the views of the year 2000 held by the younger generation took place under the auspices of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences, established at Vienna, which was founded by UNESCO and which is a division of the International Social...
Images of the World in the Year 2000; Great Britain International, 1967
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This inquiry into the views of the year 2000 held by the younger generation took place under the auspices of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences, established at Vienna, which was founded by UNESCO and which is a division of the International Social...
Burial Policy in England, 1939-1979: Interviews with Retired Cemetery Managers
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The project reviewed the management of death in England in the period 1939-1979 using a number of methods, including interviews with retired cemetery managers. These interviews invited the respondents to detail their career in cemetery management and reflect on burial culture during that period. The...
British Social Attitudes Survey, 1983-1989
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.BackgroundThe British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes...
Public Attitudes towards Sentenced Offenders and Abortion, 1982
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The survey was designed as a randomised experiment with four conditions:
(1) To test certain hypotheses about the influence of (i) the choice of sentence; (ii) judges' moral evaluation of offences; (iii) peers' moral evaluation of them; (iv) adult householders' moral evaluation of them.
(2) To intestigate...
Conventional Religion and Common Religion in Leeds, 1982
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this study was to investigate the religious practice, experience and belief in the northern industrial city of Leeds. Particular emphasis was placed on the religiousness which falls outside the normal scope of Christian denominations, including `common religion', and this was studied both in...
British General Election Study, 1983; Cross-Section Survey
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. From 1983, the British Election Study series continued under a slightly changed name, British General Election Study, directed by Anthony Heath, Roger Jowell and John Curtice, and conducted jointly by Social and Community Planning Research (SCPR - now NatCen Social Research) and Nuffield College...
British Institute of Public Opinion Polls, 1939
Main Topics:Variables
Questions cover domestic, foreign and military affairs, including:
- appeasement
- the progress and prosecution of the war
- whether to sue for peace with Germany, Italy and Japan
- satisfaction with the government's conduct of the war
- attitudes towards Churchill and other leading politicians, including Halifax, Eden, Atlee, Bevin, Morrison
- the...
British Institute of Public Opinion Polls, 1938
Main Topics:Variables
Questions cover domestic, foreign and military affairs, including:
- appeasement
- the progress and prosecution of the war
- whether to sue for peace with Germany, Italy and Japan
- satisfaction with the government's conduct of the war
- attitudes towards Churchill and other leading politicians, including Halifax, Eden, Atlee, Bevin, Morrison
- the...
Values in Norway, 1982
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this project was to describe and analyse the value systems in the Norwegian population and to provide data for comparisons of values between nations.
The Rowntree Business Lectures and the Interwar British Management Movement, 1919-1938
The literature on inter-war British industrial management has been extremely critical, presenting firms as bring conservative in organisational terms, with only a small number of progressive ones (Hannah 1983). Similarly, other observers have emphasized the grip of tradition on British business culture (Wilson 1995: Wilson and Thomson 2006). Despite these views, we know...
Afghan Women’s Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and Diasporic Communities, 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Afghan Women’s Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and Diasporic Communities, 2004-2005 aimed to develop a better understanding of Afghan women's resistance to war and violent conflicts; their engagement with multiple worlds as refugees or living in exile, their struggle for survival and/or their...
British Election Study, 2010: Campaign Internet Data
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The British Election Study, 2010: Campaign Internet Data comprises a large three-wave campaign internet panel survey, with a baseline pre-campaign wave, a sample of respondents re-contacted each day during the campaign, and all respondents interviewed in a post-election wave. For further information...
Study of Rebellions Within the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1964-1970
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to record voting behaviour of members in some divisions for which there was not unanimous support for the government position from the Parliamentary Labour Party, plus background information on Parliament and individual MPs.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Voting...
British Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The British Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010 contains panel data from nine surveys conducted between the 2005 and 2010 general elections.
The nine waves were collected as follows: three waves in 2005, conducted before the election campaign, during the campaign and post-election;...
British Election Study, 2005: Internet Rolling Campaign Panel Data and British Parliamentary Constituency Database
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The British Election Study, 2005: Internet Rolling Campaign Panel Data and British Parliamentary Constituency Database comprises the four-wave panel rolling campaign data cross-section surveys gathered by internet survey before and after the 2005 general election. After the post-election survey, a...
British Election Study Ethnic Minority Survey, 2010
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. British Election Study Ethnic Minority Survey, 2010 is a distinct survey with a separate sample and fieldwork to that of the main BES. While the main BES survey is a source of robust data at the national level, it cannot provide substantial interview numbers for some subgroups. In particular it...
Social-Psychological Predictors of Support for Terrorism, 2009-2011
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Using a social-psychological approach that views terrorism as a violent manifestation of intergroup behaviour, this project aims to identify contextual and psychological predictors of support for (and opposition to) political violence among British Muslims.
This mixed-methods research was conducted in...