Summary information

Study title

Community Health Council Members, 1974-1975

Creator

Centre for Studies in Social Policy
Social Policy Research Limited
Lewis, J., Policy Studies Institute

Study number / PID

746 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-746-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


To collect information about the people who had become members of community health councils.
Main Topics:

Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Past experience of public and voluntary bodies. Views on certain aspects of the health service, for example - adequacy of services in general and, in particular, domiciliary services, transport, pharmaceutical services, long-stay hospitals, general hospital services, dental services, general practice. Also, which groups (e.g. mentally handicapped, elderly) should get priority for better services. Views on functions of CHC's.
Background Variables
Place and length of residence (i.e. whether in CHC's district), nominating body, age, sex, marital status, number of children, educational history, qualifications, employment status, occupation.

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1974 - 01/01/1975

Country

England and Wales

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Groups
National
Community health council members

Universe

CHC members at time of inception

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Postal survey

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1980

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

  • Klein, R. and Lewis, J. (1976) The politics of consumer representation [Research report], London: Centre for Studies in Social Policy.