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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 7465 Morale and Home Intelligence Reports, 1941-1949 746510.5255/UKDA-SN-7465-1 Home Office Crown copyright held jointly with the National Archives and the UK Data Service. Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland. UK Data Service 07 April 2014 SOCIAL ATTITUDESCLIMATE OF OPINIONPUBLIC OPINIONPUBLIC OPINION POLLSFOOD SHORTAGESDISCIPLINEMILITARY SERVICEDEFENCETRUST IN GOVERNMENTCENSORSHIPRIGHT TO INFORMATIONSOCIAL NEEDSLEISURE TIME ACTIVITIESEDUCATIONAL NEEDSMILITARY TRAININGCOLLEAGUE RELATIONSHIPSFOREIGN RELATIONSPUBLIC RELATIONSINTERGROUP RELATIONSPERSONAL FINANCE MANAGEMENTMONEYSOCIAL CONFORMITYMILITARY PERSONNELCIVILIANSINTERNATIONAL ALLIANCESMILITARY BASESMILITARY OPERATIONSSOCIAL INTEGRATIONSOCIAL VALUES Social behaviour and attitudesHistory <P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>This study is available via the UK Data Service <a href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/QualiBank" title="QualiBank">QualiBank</a>, an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service.<br> <br> This is a qualitative data collection. It is comprised mainly of two different types of reports: quarterly morale reports for military personnel abroad and weekly home intelligence reports about UK civilians (only English civilian reports are held at the UK Data Archive).<br> <br> The Morale Committee for the Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) sent out a directive in 1940 to (AFHQ) requesting quarterly morale reports. The goals of the reports were to study morale of soldiers in its broadest aspect and to coordinate and prepare quarterly morale reports for the War Office. The reports covered a variety of topics, including factors affecting morale, such as discipline of military personnel, confidence in leaders and equipment, mail censorship, living conditions, recreation, education, relationships, and personal finance. The reports are mainly written from a narrative voice, typically of a commanding officer, of the overall feeling of the military base. Sometimes these reports include quotations and extracts from mail correspondence. <br> <br> The home intelligence reports aimed to present an impartial assessment of public feelings about the war efforts. Information was collated through a variety of sources: regional intelligence officers compiled weekly reports based on interviews with UK residents, postal censorship prepared weekly reports based on correspondence, and police officers were asked to produce reports based on their observations.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR>War, military service, morale, social attitudes, hierarchical relationships within the military, mail censorship, soldier's leisure and entertainment, relations with Allies, personal finance of soldiers, British public opinion, public confidence in the government and war efforts, public reaction to news Multi-nation GroupsHome intelligence reports focussing on English civilians and Morale reports focussing on military personnel abroadCross-nationalNational Home intelligence reports focussing on English civilians and Morale reports focussing on military personnel abroad during 1941-1949 Text Cross-sectional (one-time) studyThis study is a subset of materials held at The National Archives which were collected as part of a longitudinal study. No sampling (total universe) Face-to-face interviewObservationCompilation or synthesis of existing material <p><img alt="Open Government License logo" src="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/assets/img/logo-ogl.png">&nbsp; The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under an <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/">Open Government Licence</a>.</p> See <restrctn> q-d1414a1f-1105-4844-8a63-f22fbd4e97d7 https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 7465 2024-11-28T07:30:09Z ddi:codebook:2_5