Summary information

Study title

Morecambe Study, 1972: Day Visitor Expenditure Survey

Creator

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

Study number / PID

179 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-179-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The purpose of this study was to obtain, from a sample of day visitors to Morecambe, an estimate of their expenditure during the day.

Main Topics:

Place of residence (distance from Morecambe), method of transport, number of dependents with respondent (age group). Expenditure (breakdown by commodities and total).
Background Variables
Age, sex, occupation of head of household.

Leisure, tourism and sport

AGEATTITUDESEXPENDITUREGENDERTOURISMTRANSPORTTRAVEL

Data collection period

24/08/1972 - 31/08/1972

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Tourists

Individuals

Groups

Subnational

Universe

Visitors for the day to Morecambe

Sampling procedure

Systematic: interviews points along the promenade (over seven days)

No information recorded

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

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.

Riley, S. (1972) `Day' visitor expenditure: a report of the Tourism Research Unit [Research report], : Tourism Research Unit.