British Social Attitudes Survey, 2018

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.BackgroundThe British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and the data on party political attitudes produced by opinion polls. One of the BSA's main purposes is to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change, and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, in respect of a range of social issues, change over time. Some questions are asked regularly, others less often. Funding for BSA comes from a number of sources (including government departments, the Economic and Social Research Council and other research foundations), but the final responsibility for the coverage and wording of the annual questionnaires rests with NatCen Social Research (formerly Social and Community Planning Research). The BSA has been conducted every year since 1983, except in 1988 and 1992 when core funding was devoted to the British Election Study (BES).Further information about the series and links to publications may be found on the NatCen Social Research British Social Attitudes webpage.

The BSA 2018 report, including Key Findings, is available from on the NatCen BSA website:Curtice, J., Clery, E., Perry, J., Phillips M. and Rahim, N. (eds.) (2019),British Social Attitudes: The 36th Report, London: The National Centre for Social Research Latest edition informationFor the second edition (February 2021) four equivalised income variables have been added to the dataset.

Main Topics:Each year, the BSA interview questionnaire contains a number of 'core' questions, which are repeated in most years. In addition, a wide range of background and classificatory questions is included. The remainder of the questionnaire is devoted to a series of questions (modules) on a range of social, economic, political and moral issues - some are asked regularly, others less often. Cross-indexes of those questions asked more than once appear in the reports.

In 2018 the main survey covered the following: political party identification, welfare, health, housing, affordable housing, education, transport, statistics, concerns, Brexit, equalities, science, emergency healthcare, employment and spouse employment, flexible work and gender, income, retirement and pensions, and religion (the ISSP module).

Multi-stage stratified random sample

See documentation for each BSA year for full details.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102348
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Creator NatCen Social Research
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2020
Funding Reference NatCen Social Research; Department for Work and Pensions; Kings Fund; Nuffield Trust; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; National Housing Federation; Department for Education; Department for Transport; UK Statistics Authority; Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Economic and Social Research Council; Government Equalities Office; Wellcome Trust; National Institute for Health Research; Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law; Philosophy; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain