Random Survey of Public Attitudes to Museums, Archaeology and the Past, 1985

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The aim of this survey was to gauge for the first time public attitudes to, and participation in, <i>heritage presentations</i>; to understand why certain social groups tend to participate and others do not; to gauge public images of and attitudes to archaelogy and the past. The data, covering both heritage visitors and non-visitors, is linked in with sociological theory.

Main Topics:

Variables Attitudes to museums; participation in museums, historic houses, castles and ancient monuments; images of the past; images of museums; images of archaelogy; demographic variables such as age, sex, education, status.

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

100 constituencies, 15 polling districts in each constituency, 1 individual from each polling distr

Postal survey

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-2558-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=b4881ce2dbca263c86a02592f66ecb87adf55c4714b04af548f96ef0e6f5c6bb
Provenance
Creator Merriman, N., University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1989
Funding Reference Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (England); University of Cambridge, St John's College; Department of Education and Science
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Representation
Discipline Ancient Cultures; Archaeology; Dance; Economics; Fine Arts, Music, Theatre and Media Studies; History; Humanities; Medieval History; Prehistory; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain