Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2015

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified, clustered sample), it aims to facilitate the study of public opinion and inform the development of public policy in Scotland, similar to the British Social Attitudes (BSA) series (held at the Archive under GN 33168). The SSA survey has been conducted annually each year since 1999, with the exception of 2008. The survey has a modular structure. In any one year it typically contains three to five modules, each containing 40 questions. Funding for its first two years came from the Economic and Social Research Council, while from 2001 onwards different bodies have funded individual modules each year. These bodies have included the Economic and Social Research Council, the Scottish Government and various charitable and grant awarding bodies, such as the Nuffield Foundation and Leverhulme Trust. Further information on the SSA and links to publications may be found on the ScotCen Social Research Scottish Social Attitudes webpages.

The 2015 survey contained modules of questions on Attitudes to Discrimination, Attitudes to Government, Attitudes to Social Capital and Attitudes to Minimum Unit Pricing (funded by Scottish Government) and on Language Learning (funded jointly by Scottish Government, University of Edinburgh and Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching). For the second edition (August 2017), the module on Attitudes to Policing was added to the data. The documentation has been updated accordingly.

Main Topics:

The 2015 questionnaire mainly covered the following topics: attitudes to the Government, the National Health Service, the economy and standard of living; discrimination; social capital; language learning; demographics.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

The self-completion questionnaire was administered by Computer Assisted Self Interviewing (CASI) during the face-to-face interview.

Face-to-face interview

Self-completion

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8188-2
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=5118723ebd94a22346c5fcdeadf31fc1cf7080f76cfd5f75aaf6ef8553946db5
Provenance
Creator ScotCen Social Research
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2017
Funding Reference University of Edinburgh; Scottish Institute for Policing Research; Scottish Government; Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Linguistics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Scotland