Summary information

Study title

Student Political Attitudes at the University of Warwick

Creator

Anderson, M., University of Warwick, School of Politics

Study number / PID

68006 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-68006-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


A survey designed by and administered by the School of Politics' students to fellow students at the University and including questions on a wide variety of subjects.
Main Topics:

Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Major substantive areas include a series of sophisticated knowledge questions dealing with events, persons and political beliefs in Britain and abroad, questions assessing knowledge of student government at Warwick and attitudes towards student participation, attitudes towards a number of general policy issues including: divorce, drugs, homosexuality, abortion, the Vietnam war, medicare, family allowances and wage freezes; attitudes toward some foreign policy issues, and position on issues of the EEC, arms to South Africa, Israel, Arab countries, the Republic of China and on British possession of nuclear arms.
Background Variables
Father's and mother's occupations, family income, subjective social class, type of school attended, respondent's own and parents' party preferences, religion of respondent and of parents.

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1968

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
Subnational
Students

Universe

Undergraduates of the University of Warwick

Sampling procedure

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample
one in ten stratified random (stratified by course, year and subject groupings random in strata)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Postal survey

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1974

Terms of data access

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

Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee.

Related publications

Not available