British Social Attitudes Survey
The British Social Attitudes (BSA)
survey series began in 1983 and has been conducted every year since, except
in 1988 and 1992 when funding was devoted to conducting the British Election
Study (BES). However, in 1997 a scaled-down BSA was fielded in addition to the
BES. The survey series is conducted by the National Centre for Social Research
(formerly Social and Community Planning Research), with funding from a range
of organisations.
The BSA series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements
to complement large-scale government surveys such as the General Household Survey
and the Labour Force Survey. One of the main purposes of the BSA is to allow
the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change and the examination of the
relative rates at which attitudes with respect to social issues change over
time. The subjects covered by the surveys are wide-ranging but include housing
and home ownership, work and unemployment, health and social care, education,
business and industry, social security and dependency, tax and spending, the
welfare state, transport, environment and the countryside, constitutional reform,
law and order, civil liberties, moral issues and sexual mores, racism and sexism,
social inequality, religion, politics and governance.
The National Statistics web site contains some detailed information about the survey.
Recent data
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