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Finnish Local Government Barometer 2005: Municipal Managers
The survey focused on the project to restructure local government and local government services in Finland. Municipal managers were asked a number of questions relating to the restructuring project and its potential consequences. Opinions on the best option for a new local government model were charted. One question explored whether the present municipality structure, merged...
Interviews with Coaches and Coachees and Coaching Session Recordings from an Intermediate Labour Market Workshop 2014-2016
The dataset consists of interviews with coaches and coachees on their thoughts and experiences regarding intermediate labour market workshop activities and their development. The data also include coaching session recordings from one workshop. The data were collected as part of the 'Building Innovation Agency through Empowering Backstage Collaboration' (BINEC) research...
Performance of Municipal Services 2004: Personnel
The survey charted the use of the balanced scorecard indicators in measuring the performance of municipal services. The respondents were employees in the local and regional authorities participating in the study. Topics included the activity and state of the work community, performance measures, visions, strategies, aims and personnel management. Relating to the activity and...
British Candidate Study, 1992
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This dataset consists of two files:
1. The survey of party members (members.por) included 1,634 Labour and Conservative activists who attended 26 selection meetings in contituencies throughout Britain. The constituencies to which the researchers had access were chosen to be broadly representative in...
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...
Young People and Sport in England, 1994
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to establish the first ever collection of national statistics on children's involvement in sport, concentrating on their participation in sport in the twelve months prior to the survey, which took place in summer 1994. The study also aimed to explore some of the factors...
Individual and Household Strategies: a Decade of Change? 1986-1997
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aims of the <i>Decade of Change</i> (DCS) project were to extend and deepen conceptual, empirical and methodological understanding of individual and household plans and strategies, by re-interviewing a group of individuals and their partners interviewed in Kirkcaldy in 1986-1987 as part of...
Scottish School-leavers Survey : Cohort One, Sweep Three, 1999
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Scottish Executive has sponsored surveys of school-leavers and young people since the early 1970s. These include the first incarnation of the Scottish School-Leavers Survey (SSLS) which, in the mid-1980s, was subsumed within the broader Scottish Young People's Survey (SYPS - this series is held at the...
ONS Omnibus Survey, July 2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (formerly known as the ONS Opinions Survey or Omnibus) is an omnibus survey that began in 1990, collecting data on a range of subjects commissioned by both the ONS internally and external clients (limited to other government departments, charities, non-profit...
Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The principal emphasis of the programme was to examine the attitude of the population to changes in the employment structure of British society, including occupational structure changes in the gender composition of the workforce, increased unemployment and increases in the use of casual employment. These...
Cambridge Centre for Business Research SME Dataset, 1987-1995
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The research programme had five objectives:
to draw upon and develop recent theoretical contributions to the study of industrial organisation, firm behaviour and organisational change in a way which enabled them to be applied to the study of small firm creation, growth and development;
to employ this...
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...
Families and Children Study: Waves 1-10, 1999-2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Families and Children Study (FACS), formerly known as the Survey of Low Income Families (SOLIF), originally provided a new baseline survey of Britain's lone-parent families and low-income couples with dependent children. The survey was named SOLIF for Waves 1 and 2, and FACS from Wave 3 onwards.
The...
Cambridge Centre for Business Research Media Dataset, 1992-1995
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The principal aim of this project was to examine the impact on the competitiveness of the UK media industries of three related developments: (1) changes in economic organisation which have seen greater use of contracting, outsourcing and vertical disintegration; (2) shifts in the regulatory framework for...
National Adult Learning Survey, 2001
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The 'National Adult Learning Survey 2001' (NALS 2001) is the third study in a series which explores participation in a range of learning experiences. The NALS series is used by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) to evaluate the effectiveness of their adult learning policies. It is also used to...
Work-Life Balance Study, 2000: Employees' and Employers' Surveys
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.In 2000, the Government launched the Work-Life Balance Campaign, targeting employers to promote the benefits of flexible working for all employees. Although this campaign was not specifically aimed at parents or carers, the legislation restricted rights to apply for changes in the hours, timing or place...
ONS Omnibus Survey, August 2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (formerly known as the ONS Opinions Survey or Omnibus) is an omnibus survey that began in 1990, collecting data on a range of subjects commissioned by both the ONS internally and external clients (limited to other government departments, charities, non-profit...
Strategy and Service Improvement in Local Government, 2002-2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.A large literature suggests that strategic management makes a difference to the performance of firms in the private sector. Little attention has been devoted, by contrast, to the impact of organisational strategies in the public sector, despite the recent concern by policy makers and academics to...
National Health Service National Staff Survey, 2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background
The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), in conjunction with the Department of Health (DH), appointed Aston University to develop and pilot a new national National Health Service (NHS) staff survey, commencing in 2003, and to establish an advice centre and web site to support that process....
National Health Service National Staff Survey, 2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background
The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), in conjunction with the Department of Health (DH), appointed Aston University to develop and pilot a new national National Health Service (NHS) staff survey, commencing in 2003, and to establish an advice centre and web site to support that process....
ECPR Party Manifestos Project, 1921-1987
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The internal analysis of election programmes (ie. of the concerns and emphases they contain) in both the domestic and the comparative contexts.A later version of this dataset is held at SN:3437. Users should note, however, that the later version does not totally supersede this version as the data does not...
Constituency Campaigning in the 2001 General Election
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Over the last decade, there has been a renewal of interest in, and revaluation of, the effects of local constituency campaigning on the part of both academics and political parties. From the 1950s to the 1980s, as campaigning became more 'nationalised' - dominated by party leaders and focused almost...
National Adult Learning Survey, 2000
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The National Adult Learning Survey 2000 (NALS) surveyed 4,885 adults in England and Wales on their adult learning experiences. The first survey in the series, conducted in 1997 (held at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) under SN 3815), collected information about respondents' involvement in both taught and...
ONS Omnibus Survey, July 2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (formerly known as the ONS Opinions Survey or Omnibus) is an omnibus survey that began in 1990, collecting data on a range of subjects commissioned by both the ONS internally and external clients (limited to other government departments, charities, non-profit...
National Survey of Third Sector Organisations, 2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The National Survey of Third Sector Organisations, 2008 (NSTSO) measured the views of third sector organisations (TSOs) across 149 top tier local authority areas. The survey had two aims: to measure a baseline and progress against a key national indicator in the local government performance framework...
National Health Service National Staff Survey, 2014
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background
The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), in conjunction with the Department of Health (DH), appointed Aston University to develop and pilot a new national National Health Service (NHS) staff survey, commencing in 2003, and to establish an advice centre and web site to support that process....
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...
National Employer Skills Survey, 1999-2009: Secure Access
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The National Employer Skills Survey (NESS) collects data about the skills of the workforce of firms in England. A separate, but similar survey is conducted in Scotland (the Scottish Employer Skills Survey, UK Data Archive SN 6857).
The English survey first started in 1999 and was known as the Employers...
National Health Service National Staff Survey, 2010
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background
The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), in conjunction with the Department of Health (DH), appointed Aston University to develop and pilot a new national National Health Service (NHS) staff survey, commencing in 2003, and to establish an advice centre and web site to support that process....
National Health Service National Staff Survey, 2011
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background
The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), in conjunction with the Department of Health (DH), appointed Aston University to develop and pilot a new national National Health Service (NHS) staff survey, commencing in 2003, and to establish an advice centre and web site to support that process....