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Interviews of Finnish Activists 2000-2001
The survey studied the opinions of activists (active from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s) about the organisations and activities they took part in. The respondents were members of Justice for Animals (Oikeutta Eläimille) and/or Friends of the Earth (Maan Ystävät). They were asked about their background and history with activist organisations, how they had ended up in them,...
Collective action and protest in Greece under crisis (2009-2013)
This is a survey of the students of the Department of Sociology of the University of Crete, which took place in the context of a six-month seminar and a thesis. Students recorded Eleftherotypia newspaper publications on the 2010, 2011, and 2013 protest events from the newspaper's online archive, according to the research methodology for the protest events, and their first...
Participation in Political Organisations in the United Kingdom and the Internet, 2001-2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project evaluated the use of the internet by political organisations (parties, interest groups, trade unions and new social movements) to promote participation in two dimensions:
increasing vs. decreasing participation: examining whether the internet will increase rates of political participation and...
Radical Participation: Activists' Identities and Networks in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales, 1970-2001
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project studied communities of radical activists in three areas (Manchester, Oxford and North Wales), tracing their history since the late 1960s. Quantitative and qualitative methodologies were used. Forms (repertoires), levels, targets and rationales of direct action were surveyed, with local...
British Social Attitudes Survey, 1990
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...
Study of The Labour Party Membership, December 1989 - May 1990
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The first national survey of Labour Party members to analyse: range and type of political activism by Labour Party members; social background characteristics of members; attitudes on issues and values of members; methods of recruitment into Labour Party; activism in pressure groups.Main...
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...
Social Networks and Social Capital: the Careers of Political Activists, 2000-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This mixed methods study is one of 21 projects that were commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of its Democracy and Participation Programme. The project involved three components. The first component was to examine the determinants of political involvement and activism in...
British Election Study, February 1974, October 1974, June 1975, May 1979; Panel Survey
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. British Election Study, 1974-1983 (BES):
The BES was started as a research project at the University of Essex in 1974, to continue the series started by Butler and Stokes. The BES conducted interview surveys following the general elections of February 1974, October 1974 and May 1979. This series...
Former Members of the Social Democratic Party, December 1991 - March 1992
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To establish the background and political <i>careers</i> of members of the Social Democratic Party.Main Topics:Political background; political opinions; personal background.
Empirical Study of Interest Group Activity and Membership in Britain : Preliminary Data Report, 1993
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study has three main aims: 1) The collection of theoretically informed empirical data on British interest groups; 2) The comparison of that data with comparable US material; 3) Improvement in understanding of decisions by potential members about joining interest groups.Main Topics:Membership...
Swiss Voting Study, 1972
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study collected information on voting behaviour in Switzerland in 1972.UKDA Note, February 2025:The data file for this study has been converted from ASCII fixed-width text to SPSS, Stata and tab-delimited formats. Variable labels have been added to the data, and value labels can be found in the...
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...
Caught in the Act of Protest: Contextualising Contestation (CCC)
This study is about social movement protests / mobilisations in the UK and Europe. It shall collect data through surveys of participants in three or four large-scale protest events per year in the period 2009-2012 in the UK. But it shall address three key research questions by analysing data from a combined data set of country-cases in the broader project: the Netherlands,...
Social Identity Model of Protest Emergence, an Agent-Based Simulation Model, 2019-2022
I developed an agent-based model (ABM) which is a social simulation method, to explain protest mobilisation through national identity polarisation and how social media and individual social networks contribute in this process. From the simulation code, written in NetLogo, I collected data from multiple simulation runs of various parameter combinations. Then, I cleaned and...
Anti-Fracking Protest Events in England, 2011-2019
This data contains information about the number of ‘conventional’ and ‘non-conventional’ protest events during the anti-fracking campaigns in England, by year and county. Years cover the campaign period from its beginning in 2011 until the nationwide moratorium announced by the UK Government in 2019, with protest events from October 2011 until March 2019 captured. The...
Anti-Fracking Protest Events in England, 2011-2019
This data contains information about the number of ‘conventional’ and ‘non-conventional’ protest events during the anti-fracking campaigns in England, by year and county. Years cover the campaign period from its beginning in 2011 until the nationwide moratorium announced by the UK Government in 2019, with protest events from October 2011 until March 2019 captured. The...
ISSP 2004 - Citizenship I: Sweden
This survey is the Swedish part of the 2004 'International Social Survey Program' (ISSP), and it is the first ISSP-survey focusing on citizenship.
There are different opinions as to what it takes to be a good citizen and the respondents were asked to indicate on a scale 1 to 7 how important different behaviours are to make a good citizen. Respondents were also asked if...
Public Petitions to the House of Commons, 1780-1918
The data contains two files that together record and classify over one million public petitions to the House of Commons, 1780-1918, by the subjects that they addressed, which in turn are placed into broader categories to facilitate analysis. For the 1833 to 1918 period, the data also records the 165 million signatures on public petitions to the House of Commons, classified...
Edinburgh and Manchester Universities Survey, 1969-1970
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To describe the process of socialization of young adults at university in the light of the goals and perceptions of undergraduates and academic staff. The attitudes, goals, activities and satisfactions of students were explored.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
The data were collected in two...
Northern Ireland General Election and Political Attitudes Survey, 1992
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to:
extend the <i>British General Election Study</i> to Northern Ireland (the <i>British General Election Study, 1992</i> is held at The Data Archive under study number 2981)
provide longitudinal comparisons with previous work in the same area, namely...
Interviews of Former Finnish Activists 2010
The data consist of face-to-face interviews of six persons who had been involved in radical activism in the 1990s and 2000s in Finland. The same persons had been interviewed by researcher Ari Rasimus in 2000-2001 (see FSD2371 Interviews of Finnish Activists 2000-2001). The interviewees had been members of an ecological movement or an animal rights movement, but were no...
Political Responses to Unemployment in Two Localities, 1985
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this survey was to investigate political responses to unemployment in two localities with similar levels of unemployment but contrasting political cultures. The survey, conducted amongst the labour force in both areas, was designed to test a number of hypotheses about the effect of...
Economic and Social Research Council 16-19 Initiative; a Longitudinal Study of Two Cohorts of Young People, 1987-1989
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This survey was undertaken in order to understand the processes involved in economic and political socialisation of young people aged 16-19 in four British localities; Swindon,Sheffield, Liverpool and Kirkcaldy
An associated qualitative dataset, Economic and Political Socialisation, 16-19 : a Scottish...
Attitudes of Students at the London School of Economics, 1987-1988
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To conduct a course exercise that collects questionnaire-based information each year from a sample of students at the London School of Economics. The studies focus on background characteristics relevant to a student population, on attitudes to selected political and social issues, and on participation in...
British Elections, 1963-1992
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This collection contains files from the national General Election Surveys conducted in Great Britain between 1963 and 1992 which are deposited in the Data Archive at the University of Essex.
There is machine readable documentation for most of the surveys. These include SPSS setup command files,...
Making Feminist Sense of 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement', 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This research aims to make sense of 'the anti-globalisation movement' from a feminist perspective. It seeks to offer a feminist conceptualization of this movement as well as an empirical mapping of women's and feminist anti-globalisation activism.
The collection and analysis of data has been informed by...
Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, 1990
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...
Identity, Inequality and the Media in Brexit-Covid-19-Britain, 2020-2021
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
This study consists of transcripts of interviews conducted as part of the research project Identity, Inequality and the Media in Brexit-Covid-19-Britain. These transcripts report verbatim on in-depth interviews conducted with interviewees who live in the South West, East Midlands and North East of...
Political Culture of Cardiganshire, 1971
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to describe the outlook, way of life and attitudes of Cardiganshire people.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Political involvement is gauged by self-assessment of interest in politics, voting behaviour and election involvement (with special reference to the 1970...