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> New Society Incomes Policy Survey, 1974 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:50</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigator</H2> <H3 class='myclass'> New Society (Periodical)<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Data Collector</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Opinion Research Centre<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> January 1974 </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> New Society (Periodical), <i> New Society Incomes Policy Survey, 1974</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], January 1974. SN: 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-50-1 </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> <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'> 50 . New Society Incomes Policy Survey, 1974<br> </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositors:</h3> <h5>New Society (Periodical)</h5> <h5>Opinion Research Centre</h5> <h3>Principal Investigator:</h3> <h5>New Society (Periodical)</h5> <H3>Data Collector:</H3> <H5>Opinion Research Centre<br></H5> </H5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>To examine public attitudes to an incomes policy, undertaken in January 1974.</h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5> Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions<br> First asking for the respondent's definition of an incomes policy, the survey then concentrates on the effects of such a policy, asking for agreement or disagreement with a series of statements concerning wages and incomes, respondent's choice of most acceptable reason for a pay rise from a given list of nine reasons and the respondent's attitude towards 'special cases'. Concerning the effect of an incomes policy on the respondent himself, information is obtained on whether respondent feels that such a policy would make him better off or not, what income level the respondent feels necessary to maintain a proper standard of living, whether the present government is doing enough for 'people like yourself', and, finally, what is understood by the phrase 'people like yourself', eliciting a subjective assessment of class.<br> The effect of an incomes policy on the country's economy, on a capable and hardworking person's chances of getting on, on Britain as a place to live and on the amount of government interference in everyday life is also assessed. All those in full-time employment were asked whether they would, unconditionally, accept a pay increase of 7p in the $ or less and whether they would accept the following if the government was thereby able to keep prices steady: such a limitation on their annual pay rise (if they would not accept it unconditionally), the imposition of fines on unions making strikes for wage claims above the level allowed by the incomes policy, or a total wage freeze. Two final questions ask for the respondent's opinion as to whether any government could keep prices steady and for his attitude to the pay freeze of 1973. Some questions in this survey were taken from W G Runciman's <i>Relative Deprivation and Social Justice</i> (data held as Survey 028).<br> Background Variables<br> Age, sex, party membership and support, union membership (and whether active member or not), geographical region, whether employed or not, type of job (manual, non-manual) and occupational class according to a four-point scale.</h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> 15 January 1974 - 20 January 1974 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Great Britain <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> Standard Region <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Individuals </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Adults aged 15 and over in Great Britain </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Cross-sectional (one-time) study <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> Quota sample <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> 1169 (obtained) <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Face-to-face interview </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.<br/>Additional special conditions of use also apply. See <a href='/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: help@esds.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 1 January 1974<br></h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>19 December 2011</h5> </body></html>