ESDS Government

Social Capital and Social Exclusion Theme

Our resources

• Thematic guide: Social capital: introductory user guide

• Social capital teaching dataset: General Household Survey 2001-2002

• Presentations from the 'Surveys, social capital and social networks' meeting

• Presentations from the Research Conference 'Social Capital: evidence from large-scale surveys'

• Documentation from the Introductory workshop on a social capital theme

• Publications related to social capital: search our index of publications

Office for National Statistics resources

• Social Capital Question Bank
  
  
• Social Capital Project
  
  
• Focus on Social Inequalities Report 2004

• Labour market participation: the influence of social capital
  

• Measuring Social Capital in the United Kingdom (PDF): A paper outlining the process adopted by the UK for defining and measuring social capital and the development of a set of harmonised questions for use in local and national surveys.

• The Development of Harmonised Questions on Social Capital (PDF): A methodological paper outlining the development of the harmonised questions on social capital.

• Social Capital Harmonised Question Set (PDF): An annotated version of the harmonised question set which provides a guide to questions for use in the measurement of social capital.

• Young people and Social Capital (PDF): A paper providing background information on the conceptualisation and measurement of social capital among young people aged 16 to 24 years.

• Survey Methodology Bulletin 58 – August 2006: A project to convert questions on social capital from a face-to-face interviewer-administered to a postal self-administered format. This project incorporated a number of different strands, including mode effects and the development of survey questions in a mixed-mode data collection environment.
  

Other resources

• Social Capital Gateway: Resources for the Study of Social Capital (University of Rome La Sapienza)

• Cairns, Ed., Jon Van Til & Arthur Williamson (2004), Social Capital, Collectivism-Individualism and Community Background in Northern Ireland: A Report to the Office of the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister and the Head of the Voluntary and Community Unit of the Department for Social Development, published by the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister, Belfast.

• Assessing people’s perceptions of their neighbourhood and community involvement (ONS/Health Development Agency)