British Election Study : EEC Referendum Survey, 1975

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Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Readership of official leaflets on EEC, attitude to future referendum votes, expected effect of Britain's membership of EEC (in particular, prices). Vote in Referendum, strength of opinion about EEC, difference made to voting decision by new terms negotiated by the Government. Attitude to Labour government's handling of rising prices, party identification and strength of support. Respondents were asked to give marks out of ten to the Conservative, Labour and SNP parties. Degree of trust in Labour/Conservative parties. Knowledge of policy orientations of various power groups towards the EEC. Background Variables Age, sex, marital status, place of residence during childhood, subjective class, forced subjective class, family class. Tenure, type and length of residence. Employment status, degree of responsibility in and training for job (for respondent and spouse). Experience of unemployment in household, income. Trade union membership (respondent and spouse) socio-economic group.

All respondents interviewed in the British Election Study, October 1974. Constitutes 3rd wave of pa

Postal survey

The few who did not reply were interviewed by telephone

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-830-1
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Provenance
Creator Sarlvik, B., British Election Study; Robertson, D. R., British Election Study; Crewe, I. M., University of Essex, Department of Government
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1980
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
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Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain