DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03098.v2
title: British Social Attitudes Survey, 1995
title: Version 2

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 to the
 General Social Survey carried out by the National Opinion Research
 Center (NORC) in the United States. The BSA questionnaire has two
 parts, one administered by an interviewer and the other completed by
 the respondent. As in the past, the 1995 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 1995 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) newspaper readership and
 identification, (2) public spending, welfare benefits, and health
 care, (3) economic activity, labor market, training, and disabled
 people, (4) fear of crime, (5) constitutional issues, (6) education,
 (7) drugs, (8) Northern Ireland, (9) housing, (10) religion and ethnic
 origin, (11) classification, (12) countryside, the environment, and
 transportation, (13) taste and decency, (14) economic prospects, (15)
 taxation and public spending, (16) charitable giving, (17)
 welfare/Social Security, (18) euthanasia, and (19) pensions. 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
 national identity. Additional demographic data included age,
 education, income, marital status, and religious and political
affiliations.
description: There is one weight variable in the data file named
WTFACTOR.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: British Social Attitudes Survey, 1995
description: self-enumerated questionnaire(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 nonmember institutions may request
 these data directly from the UKDA. (3) The data are provided as an
 SPSS portable file. (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. (5) The formats for some variables in the SPSS portable
 file (e.g., SATELLIT) are not wide enough to accommodate the missing
 value specifications. For some procedures SPSS will display these
 missing values as asterisks. Users can widen the formats to display
 the actual missing value codes. (6) The documentation contains
 information for two different studies: British Social Attitudes, 1994,
 and Northern Ireland Social Attitudes, 1994. However, only the British
 Social Attitudes dataset is provided in this collection. (7) The
 British Social Attitudes Survey series began in 1983 and was conducted
 every year since, except in 1988 and 1992 when the core funding from
 the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts was devoted to conducting
 post-election studies of political attitudes and voting behavior in
the British Election Study (BES) survey series.