Summary information

Study title

British Institute of Public Opinion Polls, 1938

Creator

British Institute of Public Opinion

Study number / PID

2037 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2037-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Main Topics:
Variables
Questions cover domestic, foreign and military affairs, including:
- appeasement
- the progress and prosecution of the war
- whether to sue for peace with Germany, Italy and Japan
- satisfaction with the government's conduct of the war
- attitudes towards Churchill and other leading politicians, including Halifax, Eden, Atlee, Bevin, Morrison
- the persecution of the Jews
- the opening of a second front
- attitudes to the USSR and the USA as allies
- the dropping of the atomic bomb
- morale, optimism and pessimism
- rationing and other war-time controls
- air-raids and bomb damage
- the Beveridge Report, equal pay, post-war reconstruction.

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Topics

Methodology

Data collection period

01/11/1938

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Time Series

Analysis unit

Individuals
National
Adults

Universe

Adults in Great Britain

Sampling procedure

No information recorded

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

No information recorded

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1985

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.

Access is limited to applicants resident in the UK.

Related publications

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