Summary information

Study title

Redbridge Jewish Survey, 1977-1978

Creator

Board of Deputies of British Jews, Community Research Unit

Alderman, G., University of London, Royal Holloway College, Department of History

Study number / PID

1512 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1512-1 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The aim of this study was to survey Jewish housholds in the London Borough of Redbridge to determine the size, age structure, religious practices, education, extent of Zionist commitment, movement and family history, and related characteristics of Redbridge Jewry.

Main Topics:

Variables
Household size; age and sex structure; marital status; place of birth, characteristics of the foreign-born population.
Birth rate; fertility ratio; fertility of marriage cohorts; fecundity; family size; factors inhibiting larger families; fertility trends of married women aged under 45; death rate.
Spatial distribution; distribution by parliamentary constituency; tenure; length of residence, reasons for moving home; migration; communications and pattern of movement; car ownership.
Marriage patterns; how marriages end; single parent families, household composition.

Community, urban and rural lifeReligion and valuesMinorities

ADVICEAGEANTI-SEMITISMATTITUDESCHILDRENCOMMUNITY BEHAVIOURCOMMUTINGFAITH SCHOOLSDISABLED PERSONSEDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDEMPLOYMENTFAMILY MEMBERS

Data collection period

01/11/1977 - 01/01/1978

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Families/households

Subnational

Jewish households

Universe

The Jewish population of the London borough of Redbridge

Sampling procedure

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Postal survey

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1982

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

de Lange, D. and Kosmin, B. (1979) Community resources for a community survey [Research report], London.
Wigodsky, P., Kosmin, B. and Levy, C. (1979) The social demography of Redbridge Jewry [Research report], London.