T BIPO#72 BIPO # 72 October, 1940 N = 2098 Issue date 10/9/84 ROPER CENTER - BIPO#72 SURVEY IDENTIFICATION 1. COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM 2. TITLE: THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION 3. DATE: OCTOBER, 1940 4. SURVEY NUMBER: BIPO#72 5. SURVEY ORGANIZATION: THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION 7. DUPLICATES AVAILABLE FROM THE ROPER CENTER BOX U-164R UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS, CONNECTICUT 06268 SAMPLE INFORMATION 1. POPULATION UNIVERSE: 2. SAMPLING TECHNIQUE: 3. SAMPLE SIZE: 2098 4. METHOD OF SAMPLING: NOTE ____ Questions 10 and 11 each contained four punches, Yes and No the actual responses to the questions and two additional punches labeled House and Street. Since no explanation was given for what house and street represented, a decision was reached to keep responses to the original questions and enter them in the codebook and the SPSS file, and to retain each of the four responses in sprayed form at the end of the study. Therefore, responses to Yes, No, House and Street for Question 10 are respectively in cols 23-26 and responses Yes, No, House and Street for Question 11 are respectively in cols 27-30. A code of 1 indicates that the response was chosen and a code of 0 that it was not chosen. VAR: SURVNO Col. Loc. 1 Width 2 Survey number. Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 100.0 % 2,098 72 VAR: CHURCHLL Col. Loc. 3 Width 1 Range (1,3) Missing 0 Q1. In general, do you approve or disapprove of Mr. Churchill as Prime Minister? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 89.02 % 1,864 (1) Approve 6.16 % 129 (2) Disapprove 4.82 % 101 (3) Don't Know 4 (0) No Answer VAR: PRSNLINJ Col. Loc. 4 Width 1 Range (1,2) Missing 0 Q2. Have you, personally, suffered injury to yourself as the result of an enemy air raid? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 2.97 % 62 (1) Yes 97.03 % 2,027 (2) No 9 (0) No Answer VAR: HOMEDMGD Col. Loc. 5 Width 1 Range (1,2) Missing 0 Q2a. Has your home been damaged? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 13.99 % 293 (1) Yes 86.01 % 1,801 (2) No 4 (0) No Answer VAR: DISTNCTN Col. Loc. 6 Width 1 Range (1,3) Missing 0 Q3. At present there are different decorations awarded to officers from those awarded to men. Do you think this distinction should be kept up or done away with? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 26.00 % 544 (1) Kept up 60.33 % 1,262 (2) Done away with 13.67 % 286 (3) Don't Know 6 (0) No Answer VAR: TAXBYCLS Col. Loc. 7 Width 1 Range (1,3) Missing 0 Q4. Do you think there should be a tax on bicycles? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 54.72 % 1,130 (1) Yes 38.35 % 792 (2) No 6.93 % 143 (3) Don't Know 33 (0) No Answer VAR: HOWMUCH Col. Loc. 8 Width 1 Range (1,4) Missing 0 Q4a. If "YES" in Q4., how much should the yearly tax be? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 54.25 % 593 (1) 2/6 35.13 % 384 (2) 5/- 7.41 % 81 (3) 0/- 3.20 % 35 (4) Other amount 1,005 (0) No Answer/Not Applicable VAR: GERMWIN Col. Loc. 9 Width 1 Range (1,3) Missing 0 Q5. From what you have experienced or read or heard about during the past few weeks, do you think it is possible or impossible for Germany to win the war by air attack alone on this country? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 6.07 % 127 (1) Is possible 79.89 % 1,672 (2) Isn't possible 14.05 % 294 (3) Don't Know 5 (0) No Answer VAR: BOMBGRMY Col. Loc. 10 Width 1 Range (1,3) Missing 0 Q6. In view of the indiscriminate German bombing of this country, would you approve or disapprove if the R.A.F. adopted a similar policy of bombing the civilian population of Germany? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 46.05 % 957 (1) Approve 46.30 % 962 (2) Disapprove 7.65 % 159 (3) Don't Know 20 (0) No Answer VAR: SRFSHLTR Col. Loc. 11 Width 1 Range (1,3) Missing 0 Q7. Do you think the Government has been wise or unwise in favouring the building of surface shelters rather than underground shelters? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 15.47 % 322 (1) Wise 65.74 % 1,368 (2) Unwise 18.79 % 391 (3) Don't Know 17 (0) No Answer VAR: TEADRNKG Col. Loc. 12 Width 1 Range (1,3) Missing 0 Q8. Are you drinking your accustomed amount of tea, or has the rationing interfered with your tea drinking? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 63.38 % 1,310 (1) Drinking same amount 32.85 % 679 (2) Drinking less owing to rationing 3.77 % 78 (3) Don't Know 31 (0) No Answer VAR: GETTOWRK Col. Loc. 13 Width 1 Range (1,2) Missing 0 Q9. Are the air raids causing you difficulty in getting to and from your work? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 19.40 % 263 (1) Yes 80.61 % 1,093 (2) No 742 (0) No Answer VAR: GASMASK Col. Loc. 14 Width 1 Range (1,2) Missing 0 Q10. Is respondent carrying gas mask? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 35.67 % 738 (1) Yes 64.33 % 1,331 (2) No 29 (0) No Answer {See Note} VAR: TINHAT Col. Loc. 15 Width 1 Range (1,2) Missing 0 Q11. Is respondent carrying tin hat? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 9.15 % 189 (1) Yes 90.85 % 1,876 (2) No 33 (0) No Answer {See Note} VAR: SEX Col. Loc. 16 Width 1 Range (1,2) Missing 0 Respondent's sex. Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 54.16 % 1,134 (1) Man 45.85 % 960 (2) Woman 4 (0) Not ascertained VAR: AGE Col. Loc. 17 Width 1 Range (1,3) Missing 0 Respondent's age. Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 21.57 % 452 (1) 21-29 55.34 % 1,160 (2) 30-49 23.09 % 484 (3) 50 and over 2 (0) No Answer VAR: TELPH Col. Loc. 18 Width 1 Range (1,2) Missing 0 Telephone. Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 15.75 % 313 (1) Telephone 84.25 % 1,674 (2) No telephone 111 (0) No Answer VAR: CAR Col. Loc. 19 Width 1 Range (1,2) Missing 0 Car. Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 12.95 % 257 (1) Car 87.05 % 1,728 (2) No car 113 (0) No Answer VAR: BI Col. Loc. 20 Width 1 Range (1,7) Missing 0 BI. Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 2.61 % 53 (1) BI only 48.28 % 980 (2) WI only 15.42 % 313 (3) NE only 3.70 % 75 (4) SC only 26.95 % 547 (5) BI and WI 2.66 % 54 (6) BI and NE 0.39 % 8 (7) BI and SC 68 (0) No Answer VAR: VOTE Col. Loc. 21 Width 1 Range (1,4) Missing 0 In the last Parliamentary Election did you vote? Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 41.62 % 844 (1) Government 27.96 % 567 (2) Opposition 8.09 % 164 (3) Too young 22.34 % 453 (4) Didn't vote 70 (0) No Answer VAR: INCOME Col. Loc. 22 Width 1 Range (1,4) Missing 0 Income level. (estimated by the interviewer) Percentage Frequency ---------- --------- 3.50 % 73 (1) Above average 21.31 % 444 (2) Average 75.00 % 1,563 (3) Less than average 0.19 % 4 (4) Unemployed 14 (0) No Answer