Summary information

Study title

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017, Environment and Politics: Open Access Teaching Dataset

Creator

University of Manchester, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST), UK Data Service

Study number / PID

8849 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-8849-1 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

  

The British Social Attitudes Survey began in 1983 with the aim of monitoring patterns of continuity and change in attitudes to social issues. It asks a representative sample of people questions covering social, political and moral issues.

This teaching dataset has been created from the original British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017 (SN 8450), which interviewed 3,988 adults aged 18 and over. It has been adapted for teaching with a reduced number of variables on the theme of attitudes towards the environment and politics.



Main Topics:

Topics covered include:

  • views about climate change and actions related to the environment (car use, air travel, taxation)
  • interest in politics
  • voting behaviour and party identification
  • attitude scales - left-right ideology and libertarian-authoritarian scale
  • demographic variables

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
National

Universe

Adults (18 and over) living in private households in Great Britain (excluding the 'crofting counties' north of the Caledonian Canal) during 2017.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Compilation/Synthesis

Funding information

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2021

Terms of data access

  The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

Related publications

Not available