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Becoming British Citizens? Experiences and Opinions of Refugees Living in Scotland, 2010
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection. The overall aim of this project was to explore the experiences and opinions of refugees living in Scotland towards the UK citizenship process and becoming British citizens. In the wider context of the social cohesion agenda, the UK Government has promoted the...
Becoming Adult: Qualitative data on well-being outcomes for unaccompanied migrant young people turning 18 2016-2017
A dataset comprising the following:1) key informant interviews with national stakeholders and 4 (Case study) local authority stakeholders; transcripts of interviews where respondents agreed to be recorded.
2) In-depth interviews with young people: all anonymised with pseudonyms (comprising 3 folders, one for each country). 3) A briefing including analysis of all freedom of...
Conservative Party Representatives Study, 2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Conservative Party Representatives Study 2002 is a multi-focus, wholly quantitative analysis of the attitudes, beliefs, behaviour and socio-demographic background of Conservative Party politicians in 2002. A 20-page questionnaire was sent in April 2002 to all Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs),...
The Impact of the End of Brexit Transition Period on Roma in the UK, as Perceived by Front Line Support Services, 2021
The research seeks to understand the impact of the end of the transitional period following the UK’s departure from the EU on Roma in the UK. It focuses on issues such as ability to access the EU Settlement Scheme, awareness of rights of EU citizens following Brexit, ability to access support services, and how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected front-line service provision...
Everyday Bordering in the UK: The Impact on Social Care Practitioners and the Migrant Families With Whom They Work, 2020-2022
Data are transcripts based on focus groups and qualitative interviews with social care practitioners, and interviews with members of migrant families living in the UK. Practitioner data relates to focus groups, and some interviews, conducted at the start of the study which then informed the content of one-to-one ‘mid-point’ interviews with other practitioners. Professional...
Gendered Dynamics of International Labour Migration, 2020-2021
The research sought to contribute to a gender-sensitive understanding of the interaction between economic and socio-cultural drivers of labour migrations in different cities: Erbil in Kurdistan-Iraq; Beirut in Lebanon; Islamabad in Pakistan; and Istanbul in Turkey. While migration remains a key issue globally, relatively little work has been done on gender migrations in the...
Omnibus Survey: Personalities from politics, business and trade unions; foreigners; Viennese city administration; swing voters; statistics 1991
No abstract available
Finnish Attitudes towards Immigrants 2007
The interviews charted attitudes of the Finns towards foreign job seekers, refugees, and welcoming immigrants from five different nationalities. The same set of questions was used in broader interview surveys charting attitudes towards immigrants conducted in 1987, 1993, 1998, and 2003. First question explored the respondents' opinions on whether Finland should accept more,...
Forced Migrants' Experiences of Family Reunification 2018-2020
This dataset consists of 38 interviews on family reunification with people who migrated to Finland as refugees or asylum seekers. The interviewees had either not yet completed the family reunification process or had given up on bringing their family to Finland because the process had been too difficult. The data were collected as part of the 'Family Separation, Migration...
Parallel texts from the Swedish Migration Agency
Parallel texts downloaded with "w3m -dump" from an ubuntu shell, from the website of the Swedish Migration Agency.
The texts have been downloaded using the command 'w3m -dump' from an ubuntu shell, whereafter the resulting text files were stripped to contain only the interesting text (no menus and such).
The National SOM Survey Cumulative Dataset
In order to identify how the evolution of society affects Swedes’ attitudes and behaviour, the SOM Institute started its National SOM study in 1986. National SOM addresses three areas - society, opinions and mass media - and consists of a large number of questions related to politics, society, media and social background, but their areas of focus differ. Every year, the...
Spanish Social Attitudes : a Factor Analytic Study, 1982
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To study psychometric properties of two scales devised in Spain with the purpose of assessing the structure of social attitudes in that country.Main Topics:Variables
The study uses two scales:
1) Burgaleta's (1976) RD40 scale which purports to measure two supposedly orthogonal factors: radicalism (as...
European National Elites and the Eurozone Crisis (ENEC-2014)
European National Elites and the Crisis (ENEC) is an international study, conducted in European countries during the year 2014. The study examines the attitudes of Members of National Parliaments (MPs) in ten EU Member-States and partly serves as a replication of the 'InTune' project.
Exploring and tracing the views of national elites, their variety, stability and change,...
Migration Management & International Organizations: A history of the establishment of the International Organization for Migration (MIMIO)
The MIMIO project traces the emergence of the idea of an international regulation of migration in the interwar years and provides an in-depth investigation of the immediate post-World War II era in order to document the re-emergence of the debates and subsequent policies that led to the creation of the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from...
HELIOS Project evaluation - “Provision of Integration Courses to Beneficiaries of International Protection”
The study consists of an introductory survey aimed at identifying major trends regarding students’ needs and their expectations from participating in HELIOS integration courses. It was of an exploratory character, since the issue at hand was not to reach generalizations about the broader population of beneficiaries of international protection in Greece, but to explore this...
Northern Ireland Assembly Candidate Survey, 2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Northern Ireland Assembly Candidate Survey, 2003 sought to gather information from candidates for the Northern Ireland Assembly election of that year, on a range of subjects, and also to determine their opinions on a number of key issues affecting Northern Ireland.
A separate study, the Northern...
Transnational Organised Crime and Translation, 2016-2018
During the TOCAT project, we conducted multiple interviews and focus groups with frontline workers involved in police and related investigations across languages. Some of these were for information, to understand the experiences of interpreters in particular. These are included in this data collection. Others were designed for understanding by the UK police, Home Office and...
Asylum Welfare and Work in the UK, 2015-2017
This project entailed a programme of research which sought to examine three aspects of this policy approach. First, the political and policy rationale of the policy, explored through a discourse analysis of political speeches, reports, parliamentary documents and debate transcripts, media and press releases. A corpus of 449 texts was gathered covering the period 2002-2016....
Public attitudes, media coverage and House of Commons debates on salient policy issues: immigration, defence and environment, 1994-2014
Quantitative data collected on salient policy issues related to immigration, defence and environment, for the period 1994-2014. The data were collected in 2014 from (1) public opinion polls on policy issue salience, (2) media coverage of policy issues in three British newspapers: Daily Mail, Telegraph and Guardian, and (3) from House of Commons debates on policy...
Hidden Narratives of Transnational Organised Crime in West Africa, 2022
The foundation of the project was ethically rigorous fieldwork on insider narratives of activities labelled transnational organised crime (TNOC). This was done through in-depth interviews with difficult to access market insiders and regulators in the illicit migrant transport economy in Agadez and the illicit opioid economy in Lagos. We shared/archived the core of this...
Language Learning and Migrant ‘Integration’ in Scotland: Exploring Infrastructure, Provision and Experiences, 2019-2021
The main method of data collection was semi-structured interviews, mostly conducted online. We interviewed experts (ESOL providers, decision- makers – 14), teachers and community-based practitioners (17) and learners (22). In addition to interviews, we also conducted participant observation in language cafés and classes organised by different third sector providers in...
Our Society 2017 - February
Research was conducted by the Public Opinion Research Center (CVVM) of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences as a part of the research "Our Society 2017". Data collection was secured by the interviewer network of CVVM.
Please note that this research is an English version / translation of materials from research "Naše společnost únor 2017"
Attitudinal Questions about Federal Politics before the 1995 Fenderal Election 1995
No abstract available
Migrations, integration and multiculturality
Goal of the project is to analyze existent Slovenian Integration Policy (which includes fields of economic, cultural, political and social integration) with detailed dealing with individual sectoral policies (education, employment, residential, language, minority/ethnic policy etc.). In accordance with recommendations and strategic guidelines of European Union and on basis...
ISSP 2003: National Identity II: Finnish Data
The main topics of the year 2003 survey covered national consciousness, national identity and attitudes towards home country and immigrants. Respondents were asked which groups are important to them in describing who they are. Pertaining to national identity, respondents were asked how close they felt to their municipality of residence, region, Finland and Europe. Views were...
Parliamentary Elections 2003: Candidate Responses to YLE Candidate Selector
Prior to the parliamentary elections, from 18 February to 16 March 2003, YLE (Finland's national public service broadcasting company) had a candidate selection engine on its website. The data consist of answers given by parliamentary candidates to questions presented on the website. Questions covered national defence, Finland's potential NATO membership, adaptation problems...
ISSP 2023: National Identity IV: Finnish Data
In 2023, the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) focused on national identity. The questions covered issues such as Finnishness, immigration attitudes, democracy, trust in the Finnish public sector and views on the European Union. This data consists of a questionnaire collected from Finns. The first question asked what characteristics of people were considered...