British Social Attitudes Survey, 2002

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p><strong>Background</strong><br>The&nbsp;British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983. The series is designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements to complement large-scale government surveys that deal largely with facts and behaviour patterns, and&nbsp;the data on party political attitudes produced by opinion polls. One of the BSA's main purposes is 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. Some questions are asked regularly, others less often. Funding for BSA comes from a number of sources (including government departments, the Economic and Social Research Council and other research foundations), but the final responsibility for the coverage and wording of the annual questionnaires rests with NatCen Social Research (formerly Social and Community Planning Research). The BSA has been conducted every year since 1983, except in 1988 and 1992 when core funding was devoted to the British Election Study (BES).<br><br>Further information about the series and links to publications may be found on the NatCen Social Research <a title="British Social Attitudes" href="https://natcen.ac.uk/flagship-surveys">British Social Attitudes</a> webpage.</p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR>Each year, the BSA interview questionnaire contains a number of 'core' questions, which are repeated in most years. In addition, a wide range of background and classificatory questions is included. The remainder of the questionnaire is devoted to a series of questions (modules) on a range of social, economic, political and moral issues - some are asked regularly, others less often. Cross-indexes of those questions asked more than once appear in the reports.<br>For the 2002 survey, information was collected on a number of social issues including the following: political attitudes, public spending and welfare, health care, labour market issues, national identity, education and transport. Demographic data were were also collected. The topic of the ISSP module for this year was family and Changing Gender Roles.<br>
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Standard Measures<br>
The questionnaires contain three scales developed by researchers involved in the British Social Attitudes survey series and the British Election Study (BES) series. These are: 'libertarian/authoritarian'; 'left/right'; and 'welfarist'. For details see the forthcoming Technical Report on the 2002 BSA survey.

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**研究背景**
英国社会态度调查（British Social Attitudes, BSA）系列始于1983年。该系列旨在生成年度态度变化测度数据，以补充主要聚焦事实与行为模式的大型政府调查，以及民意调查产生的政党政治态度数据。英国社会态度调查的核心目标之一，是监测态度变迁的延续性与变化模式，并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。部分问题会被定期重复提问，其余则仅在少数年份设置。该调查的经费来自多个渠道（包括政府部门、经济与社会研究理事会及其他研究基金会），但年度问卷的覆盖范围与措辞最终由英国国家社会研究中心（NatCen Social Research，前身为社会与社区规划研究中心）负责审定。自1983年起，该调查每年开展一次，仅1988年与1992年除外——这两年的核心经费被划拨至英国选举研究（British Election Study, BES）项目。有关该调查系列的更多信息及出版物链接，可访问英国国家社会研究中心的<a href="https://natcen.ac.uk/flagship-surveys">英国社会态度调查</a>专题页面。

**核心议题**
英国社会态度调查的年度访问问卷包含若干“核心”问题，多数年份都会重复设置。此外，问卷还涵盖大量背景与分类变量问题。问卷剩余部分则聚焦一系列关于社会、经济、政治与道德议题的专题模块问题，部分模块会被定期沿用，其余则仅在部分年份设置。多次被提问的问题会在调查报告中编制交叉索引。
2002年的调查收集了多项社会议题相关数据，涵盖政治态度、公共支出与福利、医疗保健、劳动力市场议题、国家认同、教育与交通等领域，同时还收集了人口统计数据。本年度的国际社会调查项目（International Social Survey Programme, ISSP）专题模块主题为“家庭与性别角色变迁”。

**标准测度工具**
本次调查问卷包含由参与英国社会态度调查系列与英国选举研究系列的研究者开发的三套态度量表，分别为“自由意志主义/威权主义”量表、“左/右”政治立场量表以及“福利主义”量表。详细信息可参阅即将发布的2002年英国社会态度调查技术报告。