Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To collect data about constituency agents for the Conservative and Labour parties. To discover how the agents perceived their work and to elicit details of the type of constituency each respondent worked within.

Main Topics:

Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Respondent's assessment of most important, most difficult and most time-consuming aspects of job. Whether serious conflict between Member of Parliament and the constituency (asked of Labour agents only), position taken. Assessment of position on political left-right spectrum in context of national parties. Presence of a primary/auxiliary Labour agent, presence of a Conservative agent. Type of constituency (% of following groups in constituency: non-manual, professional and managerial, owner occupiers, council tenants, with full plumbing, with cars, born in New Commonwealth, young voters, retired, % voting 1970, % voting 1966, Conservative vote 1970, Labour vote in 1970, Liberal vote 1970, other vote 1970, Liberal swing, Conservative swing). Maxwell Fyfe Quota in pounds and as a percentage (1970 and 1972). Background Variables Age, sex, party.

Simple random sample

Postal survey