British Social Attitudes Survey, 1991

This survey is part of a continuing series designed to
monitor trends in a wide range of social attitudes in Great Britain. The
British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) is similar in purpose to the
General Social Survey carried out by the National Opinion Research
Center (NORC) in the United States. The BSA questionnaire had two parts,
one administered by an interviewer and the other completed by the
respondent. As in the past, the 1991 interview questionnaire contained a
number of "core" questions covering the major topic areas of defense,
the economy, labor market participation, and the welfare state. The 1991
self-enumerated questionnaire was devoted to a series of questions on a
range of social, economic, political, and moral issues. Topics covered
(by section) are (1) charitable giving, (2) divorce, (3) child support,
(4) economic activity, (5) economic issues and policies, (6)
environment, (7) government spending, (8) health and lifestyle, (9)
health care, (10) household income, (11) housing, (12) trust in
institutions, (13) judgments of right and wrong, (14) labor market
participation, (15) labor market and gender issues, (16) labor market
and the work ethic, (17) labor market and training, (18) newspaper
readership, (19) British presence in Northern Ireland, (20) community
relations in Northern Ireland, (21) party politics, (22) pensions, (23)
political participation and efficacy, (24) poverty, (25) race, (26)
racial discrimination, (27) religious denomination and attendance, (28)
religious beliefs, (29) sex and gender issues, (30) domestic division of
labor, (31) social class, (32) social inequality, (33) taxation, (34)
trust in institutions, and (35) the welfare state. An international
initiative funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the International Social
Survey Program (ISSP), also contributes a module to the BSA. The topic
of the ISSP module in this collection was religion. Additional
demographic data gathered included age, gender, education, occupation,
household income, marital status, social class, and religious and
political affiliations.