British Social Attitudes Survey, 2008

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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.

During 2009, a sub-sample of 30 respondents to the BSA 2008 were also interviewed for a qualitative study, held under SN 6616 - Attitudes to Genetically Modified Foods, 2009.

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.

The BSA 2008 questionnaires included modules covering: attitudes to health, social welfare, transport, religion and faith, education, food technology and national identity. Versions A and B of the self-completion questionnaire included a module of questions about religion, which comprised the 2008 ISSP component.

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 National Centre for Social Research
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2010
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council; Department of Health; Nuffield Foundation; Gatsby Charitable Foundation; Department for Work and Pensions; Department for Transport; Department for Education and Skills; Hera Trust; Leverhulme Trust; Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law; Philosophy; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain