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Cohort Study of Recently Formed Northern Businesses, 1993-1995
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aims of the study are:
(i)to identify the key characteristics of (a) a sample of newly formed Northern businesses; and (b) the founders of those businesses;
(ii)to track the perceptions founders have, at different points during the first two years of life, of likely business prospects over a range of...
7th Wave of the World Values Survey for Greece
The World Values Survey (WVS) is a global values survey that has been conducted since 1981 in a number of countries around the world, with the intention of monitoring the evolution over time of the values and beliefs of citizens in modern societies and the impact of these values on the social and political life of each country. The survey includes an extensive questionnaire...
Emancipative Values index
The overall index of emancipative values is based on the four sub-indices - Autonomy, Choice, Equality and Voice - yielding a multi-point scale.
Values in Crisis Survey (second wave)
The COVID-19 crisis is manifold and poses major health, economic and social challenges for current societies. Long-term monitoring of central values and attitudes of citizens in times of crises help to grasp current social and political tensions. Taking this ambition to the global scale and providing comparable data across nations is the main aim of the Values in Crisis...
Values in Crisis Survey (first wave)
The COVID-19 crisis is manifold and poses major health, economic and social challenges for current societies. Long-term monitoring of central values and attitudes of citizens in times of crises help to grasp current social and political tensions. Taking this ambition to the global scale and providing comparable data across nations is the main aim of the Values in Crisis...
Grandparents and Teen Grandchildren: Exploring Intergenerational Relationships, 2003-2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This research focused on the nature of grandparent-grandchild relationships, exploring the ways in which family and societal contexts are impacting on this kinship relation. The focus was on grandparent-grandchild relations when grandchildren are in their teenage years, as little research has been...
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...
Ethnic Relations on West Midland Housing Estates, 1983-1984
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This collection comprises of 155 unstructured and open-ended interviews. Interviews were conducted with residents on four housing estates (n=107), with head or senior teachers in schools on each estate (n=29), and with professional and voluntary workers involved in education, housing, probation service...
Counselling and Society: a Case Study of Voluntary Sector Counselling Provision in Scotland, 1960-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This research project examined the changing place of voluntary sector counselling in Scottish society by investigating the extent and character of voluntary sector counselling services, and by exploring the meaning and nature of counselling work to those involved in its provision. Over 100 in-depth...
Gender and the Vote in Britain, 2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.It has been demonstrated that gender has a subtle and pervasive influence upon attitudes and behaviour that should be included in any comprehensive model of vote choice. This study was designed to provide further understanding of the way gender effects political attitudes and voting behaviour.
The survey...
Essex Student Survey, 1964
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To investigate the background characteristics, attitudes and goals of Essex undergraduate students on entry, and to follow up these data with data on the reactions of graduating students to their experience of university and their responses to certain questions on political and religious attitudes that...
Essex Student Survey, 1965
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To investigate the background characteristics, attitudes and goals of Essex undergraduate students on entry, and to follow up these data with data on the reactions of graduating students to their experience of university and their responses to certain questions on political and religious attitudes that...
1970 British Cohort Study: Age 34, Sweep 7, 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is a longitudinal birth cohort study, following a nationally representative sample of over 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. Cohort members have been surveyed throughout their childhood and adult lives, mapping their...
In-Service Training of Teachers : Three Counties Survey, 1967; Heads' Questionnaire
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this survey was to establish the views and needs of a representative sample of heads of schools in each of three counties concerning in-service training.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
This survey follows the general format of 67014, asking similar questions but with the...
Modernity and Multi-Storey Living : Apartment Tenants in Canadian Cities, 1900-1939
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The focus of the research has been to investigate the role of apartment housing in the social geography of two Canadian cities - Toronto and Winnipeg - in the period 1900-1939, in the context of debates about 'spaces of modernity' in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities. The project aimed to...
Money Which? Survey on Job Satisfaction, 1976
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Data accumulated from Consumers' Association surveys are designed to be used by the consumer. The surveys are, therefore, very specific in nature and the subjects covered diverse. The Data Archive holds 19 such surveys.
Readers are asked to note that, with the exception of the surveys on the Telephone...
Interdisciplinary Marine Citizenship Research: Survey and Interview Data, 2017-2018
The interdisciplinary study investigated marine citizenship responsibilities and rights using pure mixed methods and an inductive research design. The aim was to investigate a wide rage of influences upon marine citizenship including participant characteristics, attitudes and values; relationships with the ocean as a place; and involvement and views about marine...
Experimental Vignette and Cross-sectional Survey with Farm Veterinarians, 2018
Data collected for an online study with UK-based farm veterinarians (n=97) that was conducted during 2018. Study methods were an experimental vignette and cross-sectional survey. Vignette explored the impact of different conditions (control, economics, farmer, vet-client relationship) on veterinarians' likelihood of prescribing antimicrobials. Cross-sectional survey measured...
Wellbeing in Developing Countries: Quality of Life, 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Wellbeing in Developing Countries is a series of studies which aim to develop a conceptual and methodological approach to understanding the social and cultural construction of wellbeing in developing countries. The Wellbeing in Developing Countries Research Group (WeD), based at the University of Bath,...
A sociology of values and value
The collection consists of transcripts from interviews with project participants, data from their Facebook usage, related advertising and browser tracking as well as survey answers.
There has been a great deal of interest in how capital has intervened in almost every area of life, leading some to propose new forms of capital eg ‘emotional capitalism’, and others to suggest...
Survey of Employment of Former Postgraduate Students, 1966
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is part of a study which endeavours to answer two questions: what are the purposes of postgraduate education and its value to society, and how is postgraduate education organised in relation to these purposes.Main Topics:Amount and type of both educational and occupational 'success' experienced by...
Provision of Adult Education and Education Leisure, 1966-1968 ; Adult
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.A three part study by the National Institute of Adult Education to enquire into the adequacy of provision in selected areas by the various agencies for adult education. It included surveys of the general adult population, students in adult education and tutors, between April 1966 and June 1968. Seven...
Provision of Adult Education and Education Leisure, 1966-1968; Student
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.A three part study by the National Institute of Adult Education to enquire into the adequacy of provision in selected areas by the various agencies for adult education. It included surveys of the general adult population, students in adult education and tutors, between April 1966 and June 1968. Seven...
Careers Development at Three Stages, 1967-1969 : Stage 3, 1960 Graduates
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The main object of this three part study was to identify social and psychological factors relating to the careers of highly qualified young men and women in Britain. It aimed to contribute to an understanding of the development process of occupational career aspirations in the two sexes. Designed as a...
The domestic moral economy 1990-2015
(a) Transcribed and translated indigenous vernacular accounts of how life-cycle rituals should be performed, paying particular attention to kin relations and transfers of money and objects. All researchers will collect contrasting exemplars that reflect the particular cultural circumstances in question (In Fiji, for example, this would include accounts of weddings in...
Intergenerational quality of life 2016 - Diversity between urban and rural areas (OA edition)
Full edition for public use. The theoretical guiding principles have been defined for this study in the following way. Quality of life is the sum of all aspects of living conditions of a certain generation. Diversity appears on the one hand between generations and on the other hand by the individual characteristics of the people with regard to their quality of life. Another...
Lifeworlds 2020 - Values of young people in Austria (SUF edition)
Full edition for scientific use. The study “Lifeworlds 2020 - Values of young people in Austria” is based on a standardized online survey in schools. It is representative of young people in Austria who were in eighth, ninth or tenth grade at school in 2020 (with the exception of special needs pupils) and had reached the age of 14 at the time of the survey.
Priests in Poland (1996, 2006) (SUF edition)
Full edition for scientific use. This survey focuses on Polish priests in the north-east Polish diocese of Ełk (Lyck). Conducted by Wojciech Kalinowski, the study aims to gain insights into the realities of life and experiences of priests in this region. The study provides important insights into the cultural and pastoral challenges faced by priests in a strongly religious...
Values in Crisis Austria (SUF edition)
Full edition for scientific use. The COVID-19 pandemic offers unique opportunity - a natural experiment indeed - to study how people’s moral values change during times of crises. In the face of lacking evidence, we cannot take it for granted that the stability of values observed in normal times continues throughout the Corona crisis. This dataset represents the Austrian data...
Men's studies: Austria 2002 (SUF edition)
Full edition for scientific use. This study was initiated and realised in close cooperation with the Protestant and Catholic Men's Work. The aim of the study was to gain a better understanding of the living situation, attitudes and needs of men in Austria.