Britain and the Seventies, 1973; Phase 2

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The aim of the survey was to monitor changes in attitudes of the British public towards the EEC since 1971 and to analyse the factors behind such changes.

Main Topics:

Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Attitudes to the Common Market and Britain's relationship with other EEC countries: 1) Economic factors (prices, wages, employment, competition, prosperity, growth and progress). 2) Sovereignty (influence in the world, independence, autonomy, links with other nations or blocs, Commonwealth). 3) Perceived knowledge of the EEC, its influence and its work, interest in it, overall attitude to Britain's future relationship with the EEC. Interest in politics, evaluation of importance of devolution (Scottish and Welsh), trade union power and inflation. Trade union membership, religion, television ownership and viewing habits, daily/Sunday newspapers read. Background Variables Age, sex, marital status, household status, house size and tenure, occupation (qualifications, responsibility), age finished full-time education, income, driving licence, language spoken, visiting abroad.

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

100 parliamentary constituencies were drawn in each of England (65 constituencies), Scotland (20 constituencies) and Wales (15 constituencies), stratified by region; in each urban constituency, one ward was selected and within it two polling districts in which ten electors' names were drawn from the electoral register; in rural constituencies one parish was selected and 20 names drawn from the electoral register

Face-to-face interview

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-117-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=a178bc6d96f35e85aaa64be1f883562d426111e355c0cd65fa73b5ab0d90853d
Provenance
Creator Social and Community Planning Research; Centre for Sample Surveys Ltd
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1975
Funding Reference European Educational Research Trust
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Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain