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Summary information

Study title

Survey of Principal Sources of Entertainment in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1970; General

Creator

Riley, S. C., University of Lancaster, Tourism Research Unit

Study number / PID

189 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-189-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The first survey (SN:188) was carried out as an exploratory exercise at the request of the theatre management. The aim was to collect information about the audience attending the theatre over a complete season. Discovery, not hypothesis testing, was the keynote. The second survey (SN:189) complemented and extended the first and set it in an overall context of entertainment and media-usage.
Main Topics:

Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Respondent's exposure to newspapers, television and radio. Frequency of going out: for an evening's entertainment (location), to the theatre, to the cinema. Reasons: for not going out more, for visiting/not visiting Victoria Theatre. Plays seen at the Victoria Theatre, visits to the Theatre Royal, knowledge of Stoke-on-Trent festival.
Background Variables
Age, sex, marital status, age finished full-time education, attendance at organised classes, occupation.

Topics

Leisure, tourism and sport

Keywords

AGEATTITUDESCINEMA ATTENDANCEEDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCEEDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDENTERTAINMENTFESTIVALSGENDERRADIO LISTENINGMARITAL STATUSNEWSPAPER READERSHIPSOCIAL CLASS
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/06/1970

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
Subnational
Urban residents

Universe

Residents of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme

Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample
purposive selection of wards as a first stage (4 wards in Stoke chosen to be 1 in each geographical quadrant and of heterogeneous social class; 1 ward in Newcastle) In each ward, 2 polling districts were chosen at random and systematic samples drawn from randomly chosen streets

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1976

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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