Summary information

Study title

British Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup) Polls, 1938-1946

Creator

Liddell, I., University of Warwick, Computer Services

Hinton, J., University of Warwick, Department of History

Thompson, P., University of Warwick, Social History Centre

Study number / PID

3331 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-3331-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

This dataset comprises data from the 58 surviving BIPO polls conducted between 1938 and 1946.
Main Topics:

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.

History

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Data collection period

01/01/1938 - 01/01/1946

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Time Series

Analysis unit

Individuals

National

Adults

Universe

Adults in the United Kingdom

Sampling procedure

No information recorded

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Transcription of existing materials

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1996

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.

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Hinton, J. (1994) Shop floor citizens :: engineering democracy in 1940s Britain, London: Edward Elgar.ISBN 185898081X | 9781858980812