DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03089.v1
title: British Social Attitudes Survey, 1991
title: Version 1

description: This survey is part of a continuing series designed to
 monitor trends in a wide range of social attitudes in Great Britain. The
 British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) is similar in purpose to the
 General Social Survey carried out by the National Opinion Research
 Center (NORC) in the United States. The BSA questionnaire had two parts,
 one administered by an interviewer and the other completed by the
 respondent. As in the past, the 1991 interview questionnaire contained a
 number of "core" questions covering the major topic areas of defense,
 the economy, labor market participation, and the welfare state. The 1991
 self-enumerated questionnaire was devoted to a series of questions on a
 range of social, economic, political, and moral issues. Topics covered
 (by section) are (1) charitable giving, (2) divorce, (3) child support,
 (4) economic activity, (5) economic issues and policies, (6)
 environment, (7) government spending, (8) health and lifestyle, (9)
 health care, (10) household income, (11) housing, (12) trust in
 institutions, (13) judgments of right and wrong, (14) labor market
 participation, (15) labor market and gender issues, (16) labor market
 and the work ethic, (17) labor market and training, (18) newspaper
 readership, (19) British presence in Northern Ireland, (20) community
 relations in Northern Ireland, (21) party politics, (22) pensions, (23)
 political participation and efficacy, (24) poverty, (25) race, (26)
 racial discrimination, (27) religious denomination and attendance, (28)
 religious beliefs, (29) sex and gender issues, (30) domestic division of
 labor, (31) social class, (32) social inequality, (33) taxation, (34)
 trust in institutions, and (35) the welfare state. An international
 initiative funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the International Social
 Survey Program (ISSP), also contributes a module to the BSA. The topic
 of the ISSP module in this collection was religion. Additional
 demographic data gathered included age, gender, education, occupation,
 household income, marital status, social class, and religious and
political affiliations.
description: Multistage stratified random sample consisting of four
stages. The sample was drawn from the electoral register.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: British Social Attitudes Survey, 1991
description: Adults (18 and over) living in private households in Great
 Britain, excluding the "crofting counties" north of the Caledonian
Canal.
description: (1) In 1999, Social and Community Planning Research
 (SCPR) became the National Centre for Social Research. (2) Under
 agreement with the UKDA, the data are disseminated as they were
 received, without additional processing by ICPSR. This agreement also
 provides that ICPSR will disseminate the data only for use within its
 member institutions. Persons from non-member institutions may request
 these data directly from the UKDA. (3) The documentation contains
 information for two different studies: British Social Attitudes, 1991,
 and Northern Ireland Social Attitudes, 1991. In this collection, only
 the British Social Attitudes dataset is provided. (4) The documentation
 was converted to Portable Document Format (PDF) by the UKDA. The PDF
 documentation can also be downloaded from the UKDA Web site at
 http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/. (5) The codebook is provided by the
 principal investigator as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF
 file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be
 accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
 Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on
the ICPSR Web site.