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Neighbour Relations and Disputes 2012
The survey charting neighbour relations and disputes was funded by the Academy of Finland ('The Future of Living and Housing' programme, 'Neighbour Disputes and Housing in Finland' project). Concerning interaction with neighbours, the respondents were asked how often they visited, spent time with, helped and had conversations with their neighbours as well as how many...
Residents' Opinions on Neighbourhood 2004: Kajaani
The data are part of the EkoSuKaT research project studying the sustainability of community structures and physical environment in growing and declining regions of Northern Finland. The main aim was to study the needs of communities in order to ensure sustainable residential area development. Six growing and declining residential areas in the outskirts of Oulu and in the...
Residents' Opinions on Neighbourhood 2005: Liminka
The data are part of the EkoSuKaT research project studying the sustainability of community structures and physical environment in growing and declining regions of Northern Finland. The main aim was to study the needs of communities in order to ensure sustainable residential area development. Six growing and declining residential areas in the outskirts of Oulu and in the...
Residents' Opinions on Neighbourhood 2005: Ristijärvi
The data are part of the EkoSuKaT research project studying the sustainability of community structures and physical environment in growing and declining regions of Northern Finland. The main aim was to study the needs of communities in order to ensure sustainable residential area development. Six growing and declining residential areas in the outskirts of Oulu and in the...
Euxeinoupoli, a Multicultural Community
Euxeinoupoli is a relatively "new" village created in 1906 by Greek refugees from Eastern Rumelia, and was then inhabited by other ethnocultural groups (Pontic Greeks, Greeks from Asia Minor, Vlachs, Sarakatsani, Armenians and lately immigrants from Bulgaria and Albania). The purpose of this research was to investigate the concept of "community" and intercultural contact in...
Neighbourhood Boundaries, Social Disorganisation and Social Exclusion, 2001-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The central aim of the research was to investigate the underlying premises of UK neighbourhood crime policies through a comparative study of the responses to crime and disorder within both affluent and deprived neighbourhoods, the extent and nature of informal means of social control utilised by their...
Local Participation Study, 2001; Local Participation Study and the 2002 Local Elections
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project is designed to improve our understanding of the factors which influence the levels of electoral participation in British local government. It makes use of prior quantitative research findings about those areas which display consistently higher or lower than expected local election turnouts as...
Changing Sociological Construct of the Family, 1930-1986
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 study uses in-depth interviews to build up a picture of one large and complex working-class family. Using a...
Black Immigrants to Britain, 1890-1975
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.
Life-history interviews with black immigrants born before 1911 focusing on family life, community and work...
Offending, Crime and Justice Survey, 2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Offending, Crime and Justice Survey (OCJS) (also sometimes known as the Crime and Justice Survey), was the first national longitudinal, self-report offending survey for England and Wales. The series began in 2003, the initial survey representing the first wave in a planned four-year rotating panel...
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified,...
National Evaluation of the New Deal for Communities Programme: Household Survey Data, 2002-2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The National Evaluation of the New Deal for Communities Programme (NDC) surveys began in 2002. To begin the programme, MORI Social Research worked with CRESR at Sheffield Hallam University, on behalf of the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit. The first phase of the programme took the form of a large-scale project...
General Household Survey, 2000-2001: Social Capital Teaching Dataset
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The variables in the General Household Survey, 2000-2001: Social Capital Teaching Dataset are a subset taken from the full General Household Survey, 2000-2001 (GHS). For that year of the GHS, a social capital 'trailer' was conducted alongside the main survey, which included questions on respondents' local...
Offending, Crime and Justice Survey, 2003-2006: Longitudinal Analysis Data
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Offending, Crime and Justice Survey (OCJS) (also sometimes known as the Crime and Justice Survey), was the first national longitudinal, self-report offending survey for England and Wales. The series began in 2003, the initial survey representing the first wave in a planned four-year rotating panel...
Citizenship Survey, 2008-2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Citizenship Survey (known in the field as the Communities Study) ran from 2001 to 2010-2011. It began as the 'Home Office Citizenship Survey' (HOCS) before the responsibility moved to the new Communities and Local Government department (DCLG) in May 2006. The survey provided an evidence base for the...
Taking Part: the National Survey of Culture, Leisure and Sport, 2008-2009; Adult and Child Data
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Taking Part survey collects data on many aspects of leisure, culture and sport in England, as well as an in-depth range of socio-demographic information on respondents. The survey is commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in partnership with three of its...
Urban Regeneration, Mental Health and Quality of Life in Wythenshawe, South Manchester, 1998-2001
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this study was to achieve a better understanding of:
the role played by urban regeneration in altering the degree and distribution of socio-economic variations in mental health;
the impact of socio-economic changes on people with differential vulnerability to the development of common mental...
General Household Survey, 2000-2001
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The General Household Survey (GHS), ran from 1971-2011 (the UKDS holds data from 1972-2011). It was a continuous annual national survey of people living in private households, conducted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The main aim of the survey was to collect data on a range of core topics,...
Gender Difference, Anxiety and the Fear of Crime, 1995
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This research focused on crime and its relation to risk of victimisation and the suggestion that high-risk groups, in particular, young men, report lower fear than low-risk groups, in particular, older women.
The notion of anxiety as a mediating influence in the relationship between risk of victimisation...
Taking Part: the National Survey of Culture, Leisure and Sport, 2010-2011; Adult and Child Data
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Taking Part survey collects data on many aspects of leisure, culture and sport in England, as well as an in-depth range of socio-demographic information on respondents. The survey is commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in partnership with three of its...
Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, 1996
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Northern Ireland Social Attitudes (NISA) survey series began in 1989, and was conducted every year in which the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey was fielded until 1996. Supported initially by the Nuffield Foundation, the Central Community Relations Unit (CCRU) and the Policy Planning Research...
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified,...
National Survey for Wales, 2009-2010: Pilot Study
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Welsh Government's National Survey for Wales covers a random sample of 12,000 adults a year (aged 16+) living in private households across Wales. The survey provides representative, reliable and up-to-date information about the people of Wales down to local authority level.The survey began in 2012. In...
Deprived White Community? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates, 1940-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection.
The project charted changes since 1940 in the interface between official descriptions of three Norwich council estates (North Earlham, Larkman and Marlpit) as deprived, and residents' own social and spatial identity practices.
It looked critically at the extent to...
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified,...
Taking Part: the National Survey of Culture, Leisure and Sport, 2006-2007; Adult and Child Data
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Taking Part survey collects data on many aspects of leisure, culture and sport in England, as well as an in-depth range of socio-demographic information on respondents. The survey is commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in partnership with three of its...
Geographical Mobility of Two Cohorts of Teachers, 1972; Stayers
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.In 1967, data and information were obtained on cohorts of teachers in six County Boroughs relating to reasons for choosing to work in one geographical area rather than another. This study is a follow-up to the 1967 study.Main Topics: Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Number of years in previous school,...
Health and Lifestyle Survey: Seven-Year Follow-Up, 1991-1992
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Following a number of feasibility studies and pilot surveys carried out in 1978, the first Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS1) (held at the UKDA under SN 2218), funded by the Health Promotion Research Trust, was carried out in 1984-1985 on a random sample of the population of England, Scotland and Wales....
Audit of Political Engagement 9, 2011
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Audit of Political Engagement is a time-series study providing an annual benchmark to measure political engagement in Great Britain, gauging public opinion about politics and the political system, and more broadly the general health of our democracy. Each Audit report presents the findings from a...
Audit of Political Engagement 11, 2013
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Audit of Political Engagement is a time-series study providing an annual benchmark to measure political engagement in Great Britain, gauging public opinion about politics and the political system, and more broadly the general health of our democracy. Each Audit report presents the findings from a...