Poverty, Wealth and Citizenship : A Discursive Interview Study and Newspaper Monitoring Exercise, 1996

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The aims of this project were: to explore prevailing beliefs and popular discourses relating to the nature, extent and 'risk' of poverty and wealth; to investigate how such beliefs and discourses relate to people's understanding and experiences of citizenship.

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The dataset includes two sets of files: 1. Anonymised transcripts from discursive interviews with 76 working adults. Interview transcripts are complete except for the deletion of specific references to names and places as required for the protection of the anonymity of respondents, and data provided 'off the record' before or after the tape-recording of the interviews. The interviews covered: attitudes to wealth and poverty, citizenship rights and responsibilities, income gap between rich and poor, taxation, welfare benefits and charity; newspaper readership, radio listening and television viewing; demographic details; satisfaction/dissatisfaction with quality of life. 2. A simple database describing news items extracted during a newspaper monitoring exercise conducted contemporaneously with the above mentioned interviews. The items are identified according to three main themes - poverty, wealth and citizenship. The database is a coded summary record - please see documentation for further details.

A hybrid sampling process was used which involved drawing quotas of employees from different earnin

Face-to-face interview

Monitoring of newspapers for database

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3995-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=eb6f721fbdb72cdf896a180da078266ae723b5f622713856f6f0bda357afa9c1
Provenance
Creator Melrose, M., University of Luton, Department of Applied Social Studies; Dean, H., University of Luton, Department of Applied Social Studies
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1999
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
Rights Copyright Dr Hartley Dean and Ms Margaret Melrose; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Representation
Language English
Resource Type Text; Spreadsheet database summarising data from newspaper monitoring exercise.
Discipline Humanities; Philosophy
Spatial Coverage East Anglia; North of England; South East England; South West England; England