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ISSP 2016: Role of Government V: Finnish Data
ISSP 2016: Role of Government V: Finnish Data - survey investigated the opinions of Finnish people on government and government actions, authorities, citizen's possibilities of influencing government, taxation, corruption, and immigration. The first questions dealt with law and the justice systems. The respondents were asked whether they thought that people should obey the...
Sources for Medieval Ireland in the National Archives of the United Kingdom, c. 1200 - c. 1485
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aims of the research project from which this digital resource arose were to facilitate more effective research into the history of Anglo-Irish relations in the Middle Ages, with special emphasis on the economic and social aspects of these relations, and to broaden the knowledge base of scholars...
Discrimination Against Gay Men and Lesbians, 1993
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The study was designed to take an unbiased and comprehensive look at the nature of discrimination against gay men and lesbians in Britain today, through a random sample survey of gays/lesbians and of heterosexuals. There was also a follow-up qualitative study of gays and lesbians, but only data from the...
Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832: Transcripts of Original Manuscripts
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the Bentham Project is to produce a new scholarly edition of the works and correspondence of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the influential jurist, philosopher and social scientist, whom A.J.P. Taylor described as 'the most formidable reasoner who ever applied his gifts to the practical questions...
Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, 1989-1991; Cumulative File
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...
English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Panel Survey: Waves 1-2, 2010-2012
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Panel Survey (CSJPS) collects data relating to people’s experiences of civil justice (or ‘justiciable’) problems and the strategies they used to resolve them.
The survey is a substantial development of the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey...
Legal Problem and Resolution Survey, 2014-2015
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Legal Problem and Resolution Survey, 2014-2015 (LPRS), builds on the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey (CSJS) and Civil and Social Justice Panel Survey (CSJPS), a series of surveys conducted between 2001 and 2012. As a number of significant reforms have been made to the civil,...
Resisting Subjugation: Law and Power amongst the Santal of India and Bangladesh, 2002-2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is an enhanced qualitative study.
The study uses mixed methods and focuses on the Santal adivasi (tribal people) in Jharkhand, India and Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Anthropological and sociological data collection methods were used to collect material in four villages, three courts of law and from...
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 1999
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,...
British Social Attitudes Survey, 1991
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...
Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, 1991
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...
British Social Attitudes Survey, 1983-1991; Cumulative File
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...
Women in the Russian Penal System: the role of distance in the theory and practice of imprisonment in Russia
This project aimed to explore how the isolation that women in Russia's penal institutions suffer shapes their experiences of custody and re-entry into society. 65 prisoners, 21 ex-prisoners, 30 prison personnel, and 71 local inhabitants of penal regions were interviewed, forming 186 semi-structured, face-to-face interview transcripts. Another 300 prisoners completed...
Criminal Cases Review Commission: Legal Aid and Legal Representatives, 2019-2021
The dataset includes a set of transcripts of interviews with legal practitioners (Legal Executives, Solicitors, Barristers) who were involved in assisting applicants to the Criminal Law Cases Commission. Because of the Covid 19 pandemic some of the interviews were conducted remotely. The interviewees were asked to discuss the impact on their work and on their clients, of...
Law, Finance and Development Indices, 1970-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study examined the links between legal systems and economic development, focusing on the relationship between law and finance. New datasets were created, charting legal change over time in the areas of shareholder protection, creditor protection and labour regulation. Indices with up to 60...
World Ethnographic Atlas, 1967-1971
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To provide a register of information on 863 cultures or cultural types.Main Topics:Variables
Regional identification, estimated relative dependence on each of 5 major types of subsistence economy, prevailing mode of obtaining a wife, prevailing form of domestic or familial organisation, profile of marital...
Mapping Changes in British Parliamentarians' Attitudes to European Integration, 1998
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The research project was a survey of the attitudes of all Members of Parliament (MPs) at Westminster to European integration. The researchers wished to refine their existing hypothesis that the divisions so apparent on Europe in the main British political parties, are most pronounced along 'fault-lines'...
Welsh Assembly Election Study, 1999
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This survey was a post-election study of the first election to the Welsh National Assembly in 1999. It was designed in the tradition of British General Election Studies and in close conjunction with the 1999 'Scottish Social Attitudes/Scottish Parliamentary Election Study' (held under SN:4346). The...
Russia 2010 Survey
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Elections in Russia have become steadily less 'open' since the Beslan hostage-taking crisis of 2004. The most important changes include: 1) an entirely new election law that abolishes the single-member constituencies and thus all independents; 2) abolition of the direct election of regional governors; 3)...
Legal Problem and Resolution Survey, 2023: Special Licence Access
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Legal Problem and Resolution Survey (LPRS) measures people’s experiences of everyday problems that may have a legal solution through the courts and tribunal system. It provides robust statistical evidence on the extent to which civil, family, and administrative justice problems are experienced,...
Cuban Political Culture Survey, 1976
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To study the political culture which lies behind the new form of political organization known as `Popular Power' which began as an experiment in the Cuban province of Mantanzas in 1974 and was extended to the rest of the country in 1976.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
The existence and...