ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> British Social Attitudes Survey, 1999 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:4318</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Series Title</H2><H3 class='myclass'> British Social Attitudes Surveys<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigator</H2> <H3 class='myclass'> National Centre for Social Research<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsors</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Gatsby Charitable Foundation<br>Countryside Agency<br>Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions<br>Department of Health<br>Department for Education and Employment<br>Department of Social Security<br>Economic and Social Research Council<br>The King's Fund<br>British Broadcasting Corporation<br>Broadcasting Standards Commission<br>British Board of Film Classification<br>Independent Television Commission<br>Flextech Television<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> January 2001 </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> National Centre for Social Research, <i> British Social Attitudes Survey, 1999</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], January 2001. SN: 4318, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4318-1 </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> National Centre for Social Research </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 4318 . British Social Attitudes Survey, 1999<br> (BSA) </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Series:</h3> <h5>British Social Attitudes Surveys</h5> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>National Centre for Social Research</h5> <h3>Principal Investigator:</h3> <h5>National Centre for Social Research</h5> <H3>Sponsors:</H3><H5> Gatsby Charitable Foundation<br>Countryside Agency<br>Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions<br>Department of Health<br>Department for Education and Employment<br>Department of Social Security<br>Economic and Social Research Council<br>The King's Fund<br>British Broadcasting Corporation<br>Broadcasting Standards Commission<br>British Board of Film Classification<br>Independent Television Commission<br>Flextech Television<br> <i class='myclass'> Grant Number:</i> M543285001; R000222960; R000222847 </H5> <h3>Project Number: </h3> <h5>P ; 1850</h5> <h3> Other Acknowledgements: </h3> <h5>Social Statistics Laboratory at the University of Strathclyde for writing the SPSS setup file.<br></h5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>The <i>British Social Attitudes</i> (BSA) survey series began in 1983, and has been conducted every year since, except in 1988 and 1992 when the core-funding from the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts was devoted to conducting post-election studies of political attitudes and voting behaviour in the <i>British Election Study</i> (BES) series held at the UK Data Archive under GN 33066. However, for reasons of continuity, in 1997 a scaled-down BSA was also fielded in addition to the BES. Core-funding for BSA is supplemented by financial support from a number of sources (including government departments, the ESRC and other research foundations), but final responsibility for the coverage and wording of the annual questionnaires rests with the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen - formerly Social and Community Planning Research).<br> <br> The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements which will complement large-scale government surveys such as the <i>General Household Survey</i> and the <i>Labour Force Survey</i> (held at the UK Data Archive under GN 33090 and GN 33246 respectively), which deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, as well as the data on party political attitudes produced by the polls. One of its 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. Many were also included in the <i>Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey</i> (NISA) (held at the Archive under GN 33235) thus allowing direct comparison of the attitudes, values and beliefs held by UK citizens on either side of the Irish Sea. This analogous survey of Northern Ireland was conducted annually from 1989 to 1996, when it was discontinued. NISA has been succeeded by the <i>Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey</i> (NILT) series (held at the Archive under GN 33312), and the corresponding <i>Young Life and Times Survey</i> (YLT) series (held at the Archive under GN 33313), which surveys young people aged 12-17 living in the households of adults interviewed for NILT. Both the NILT and YLT series began in 1998.<br> <br> A combined BSA dataset is available (SN 2824) which includes data from 1983 to 1989 (but not Northern Ireland data), as well as an information retrieval program and a data extraction program.<br> <br> In 1994, 1998 and 2003, the BSA survey was accompanied by the <i>Young People's Social Attitudes Survey</i> (YPSA) (held at the Archive under GN 33338), which was designed to explore the attitudes and values of children and young people, and where possible to make comparisons with those held by adults. The sample for YPSA was drawn from young people aged 12-19 years living in the households of adults interviewed for the BSA survey.<br> <br> A compilation of BSA data and documentation, including interactive descriptive statistics, is available via the <a href="http://www.britsocat.com/"title="Britsocat">Britsocat</a> web site, maintained by the Centre for Comparative European Survey Data.<br> <br> Further information about the series and links to publications may be found on the NatCen <a href="http://www.natcen.ac.uk/series/british-social-attitudes" title="British Social Attitudes">British Social Attitudes</a> web page.<br></h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5>The questionnaire normally has two parts, one administered and one left for self-completion and later return. Each year the interview questionnaire contains a number of 'core' questions. These cover major topic areas such as defence, the economy, labour market participation and the welfare state. The majority of these questions are repeated in most years, if not every year. In addition, a wide range of background and classificatory questions is always 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 asked regularly, others less often. Cross-indexes of those questions asked more than once appear in the reports. Between 1984 and 1986 the ESRC funded the introduction of a panel element into the series, enabling about half (about 700) of the first year's respondents to be re-interviewed with a slightly adapted questionnaire.<br> <br> Since 1985, an international initiative funded by the Nuffield Foundation, known as the <a href="http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/isspTitles.asp" title="International Social Survey Programme"><i>International Social Survey Programme</i></a> (ISSP) has been running. The BSA series contributes data each year for the ISSP, and so some questionnaire modules now allow cross-national comparisons. The ISSP modules are always contained in the self-completion part of the questionnaire.In the 1999 survey, information was collected on a number of social issues including the following: political attitudes, housing, public spending, welfare, health care, labour market issues, English national identity, begging, education, the countryside, transport, and taste and decency in film and television. Demographic data were also collected. The topic of the ISSP element of the BSA questionnaire was social inequality.<br> <br> Standard Measures<br> The questionnaires contain three scales developed by researchers involved in the British Social Attitudes survey series and the British Election Study (BES) series. These are: 'libertarian/authoritarian'; 'left/right'; and 'welfarist '. For details see the Technical Report on the 1999 BSA survey.</h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> June 1999 - November 1999 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Great Britain <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> (A)Standard Regions; (B)Postcode Districts; (C)Local Authority Districts <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Individuals <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Numeric data; Alpha/numeric data; Individual (micro) level </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Adults (18 and over) living in private households in Great Britain (excluding the 'crofting counties' north of the Caledonian Canal).<br> </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Repeated cross-sectional study<br> The BSA survey is conducted annually. <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> Multi-stage stratified random sample<br> Sampling is conducted in four stages; from 1993 the sample has been drawn from the Postcode Address File, whereas in previous years it was drawn from the Electoral Register. <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> Weighting factors used: WTFACTOR<br> (A) 6000 (target) 3143 (obtained)<br> (B) 3143 (obtained) Weighted sample size <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Face-to-face interview; Self-completion; from 1994 the face-to-face interviewing has been conducted by Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI). </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://www.esds.ac.uk/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> ESDS Government, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: govsurveys@esds.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 25 January 2001<br></h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5> National Centre for Social Research</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>4 January 2012</h5> </body></html>