Summary information

Study title

British Local Government Panel Survey, 1985-1986

Creator

Miller, W. L., University of Strathclyde, Department of Politics

Study number / PID

2653 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2653-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The <i>British Local Government Panel Survey, 1985-1986 </i> is a panel study of attitudes and behaviour of local government electors. The survey consisted of two waves: the first wave carried out in 1985, sponsored by the <i>Widdicombe Committee of Inquiry into the Conduct of Local Authority Business</i>, and the second wave carried out in 1986 and sponsored by the ESRC. The first wave conducted a total 1,145 interviews. The second wave of the survey undertook to contact all of the 1,145 interviewees from the first wave. Of these, 745 interviews were obtained. For each of these 745 respondents, information from the first and second wave interviews plus the relevant contextual data were merged. It is this merged dataset that is held at the Data Archive.
Main Topics:

Attitudes towards local government and local democracy; voting.

Political behaviour and attitudes

ADMINISTRATIVE AREASAGEATTITUDESCENTRAL GOVERNMENTCOMMUNITY CHARGECONSTITUENCIESCOUNCILLORSDECISION MAKINGDEMOCRACYECONOMIC ACTIVITYEDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDELECTIONS

Data collection period

01/01/1985 - 01/01/1986

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

two waves

Analysis unit

Individuals

National

Electors

Universe

Electors in Great Britain

Sampling procedure

Simple random sample

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1989

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.

Widdicombe, D. (1987) The Conduct of Local Authority Business: : Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Conduct of Local Authority Business, London: HMSO.
Byrne, T. (1986) Local government in Britain, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Miller, W. (1988) Irrelevant elections : the quality of local democracy in Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press.