Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, 1993

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>The <i>Northern Ireland Social Attitudes</i> (NISA) survey series began in 1989, and was conducted every year in which the <i>British Social Attitudes</i> (BSA) survey was fielded until 1996. Supported initially by the Nuffield Foundation, the Central Community Relations Unit (CCRU) and the Policy Planning Research Unit (PPRU - now the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency), the NISA series is currently funded by all of the main Northern Ireland Departments. NISA has not been conducted since 1996, but was replaced by the <i>Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey</i> series (NILT), held at UKDA under SN:33312, which began in 1998, and its corresponding <i>Young Life and Times Survey</i> (YLT) series (held under GN:33313), which surveys young people aged 12-17 living in the households of adults interviewed for NILT.<br>
Like its companion survey, <i>British Social Attitudes</i>, NISA was designed to complement large-scale government surveys (such as the <i>Continuous Household Survey</i> and the <i>Quarterly Labour Force Survey</i>) which collect mainly factual and behavioural data. Its main purpose was to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change, and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, in respect of a range of social issues, change over time. NISA thus allows direct comparison of the attitudes, values and beliefs held by UK citizens on either side of the Irish Sea. Data users should, however, note that the two sets of data cannot be combined to produce UK data.<br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR> Alongside a `core' number of questions on (for example) public spending, welfare benefits, the labour market and community relations - and all the demographic and other classificatory variables - the NISA surveys also contained many of the questionnaire modules asked in that year's BSA survey, including questions (modules) on a range of social, economic, political and moral issues - some asked regularly, others less of ten. In addition, each year the NISA questionnaire included a special module of questions on topics close to the particular concerns of the province, such as constitutional arrangements, security measures, the perceived evenhandedness of institutions and community relations. Some of these questions were asked in Great Britain too, so allowing comparison of the attitudes of those living in Northern Ireland with the attitudes of people in Great Britain. See GN:33168 for the BSA surveys.<br><br>In the 1993 survey, as well as the standard demographic and classificatory items, the following topics were covered: government spending and the National Health Service; labour market participation and the workplace; European Community; economic issues and policies (including income and taxation); Northern Ireland issues, including perceived religious prejudice and discrimination, evenhandedness of institutions, integrated schooling, community relations and constitutional matters; social security benefits and the welfare state; child maintenance; primary and secondary education; the countryside; charitable giving; the environment (ISSP module).

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《北爱尔兰社会态度》（Northern Ireland Social Attitudes, 简称NISA）调查系列始于1989年，在1996年之前每年随《英国社会态度》（British Social Attitudes, 简称BSA）调查同期开展。该系列最初由纳菲尔德基金会（Nuffield Foundation）、中央社区关系小组（Central Community Relations Unit, 简称CCRU）及政策规划研究单元（Policy Planning Research Unit, 简称PPRU，现为北爱尔兰统计与研究局）资助，目前由北爱尔兰各主要部门共同支持。NISA自1996年起停办，由1998年启动、存档于英国数据档案馆（UKDA）编号SN:33312的《北爱尔兰生活与时代调查》（Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 简称NILT）系列，以及存档编号GN:33313的对应《青年生活与时代调查》（Young Life and Times Survey, 简称YLT）系列取代。其中YLT系列面向参与NILT访谈的成年受访者家庭中的12-17岁青少年开展调查。
与姊妹调查《英国社会态度》一致，NISA旨在补充主要收集事实与行为数据的大型政府调查（如《持续家庭调查》（Continuous Household Survey）与《季度劳动力调查》（Quarterly Labour Force Survey））。其核心目标为监测社会态度的延续与变迁模式，考察一系列社会议题上的态度随时间推移的相对变化速率。因此，NISA可用于直接对比爱尔兰海两岸英国公民的态度、价值观与信念。但数据使用者需注意，两组数据不可合并用于生成英国整体数据集。
**主要研究主题**：除公共支出、福利津贴、劳动力市场与社区关系等"核心"问题模块，以及所有人口统计与其他分类变量外，NISA调查还包含当年度BSA调查中的诸多问卷模块，涵盖社会、经济、政治与道德等多类议题——部分问题定期重复设问，其余则较少出现。此外，每年的NISA问卷都会增设针对北爱尔兰本地关切议题的专属模块，例如宪制安排、安保措施、机构公平性认知与社区关系等。其中部分问题也曾在英国本土调查中使用，因此可用于对比北爱尔兰与英国本土民众的态度差异。有关BSA调查的详细内容可参见存档编号GN:33168的数据集。
在1993年的调查中，除标准人口统计与分类条目外，还涵盖以下主题：政府支出与国民医疗服务体系；劳动力市场参与及职场状况；欧洲共同体；经济议题与政策（含收入与税收）；北爱尔兰本地议题，包括认知中的宗教偏见与歧视、机构公平性、整合式教育、社区关系与宪制事务；社会保障福利与福利国家；儿童抚养；中小学教育；乡村议题；慈善捐赠；环境（国际社会科学项目组（International Social Survey Programme, ISSP）模块）。