British Social Attitudes Survey, 1987

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Label

British Social Attitudes Survey, 1987

Creator

• Social and Community Planning Research
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Author

• Social and Community Planning Research

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• economic issues
• employment
• expectations
• family work relationship
• government programs
• government spending
• health care services
• housing
• income
• international relations
• labor markets
• morality
• national economy
• news media
• nutrition
• occupations
• political issues
• political participation
• public confidence
• racial attitudes
• religious attitudes
• social attitudes
• social change
• social inequality
• social issues
• social values
• survey
• traffic
• trends
• values
• welfare services
• AIDS
• working women
• Equality
• attitudes
• defense (military)

Genre

• survey

Summary

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 1986 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 1987 self-enumerated questionnaire was devoted to a series of questions on a range of social, economic, political, and moral issues. Topics that received attention (by section) include: (1) newspaper readership, defense, international relations, (2) economic issues/policies, household income, economic activity, labor market participation, (3) the welfare state, the National Health Service, education, (4) race, social class, religion, (5) sex, gender, and moral issues, politics/institutions, (6) right/wrong, industry/jobs, (7) housing and the countryside, and (8) AIDS and housing. Beginning in 1985, an international initiative funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), also contributed a module to the BSA. The topic of the ISSP module in this collection was inequality. Additional demographic data gathered included age, gender, education, occupation, household income, marital status, social class, and religious and political affiliations