Study of Intergenerational Political Preferences in Great Britain [INTERGENPOL-GB], Vers.1.1.

The Study of Intergenerational Political Preferences in Great Britain [Intergenpol-GB] is a large survey of British adults’ attitudes toward age gaps in wealth and living standards, as well as the sort of public policies that might help reduce them. Our survey contains questionnaire items relating to perceptions of different age cohorts within society, as well as within one’s own family. It is particularly useful for researchers interested in understanding the amount of support for government investment in services aimed at particular stages of the life cycle (education, pensions, elder care, childcare, housing etc.), as well as the reasons why certain spending proposals are more popular than others. That said, the data will be broadly useful for all manner of social science research projects regarding generational divides, families, attitudes the welfare state and societal conflict more broadly. The survey was designed by Zack Grant, Jane Green, and Geoffrey Evans, of the Nuffield Politics Research Centre, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, in collaboration with Molly Broome, Sophie Hale and Kathleen Henehan of the Resolution Foundation. It was fielded between the 12th and 25th August 2022 by YouGov to sample of 6,021 people selected from the survey company’s large online panel of over 1 million British adults (aged 18+). YouGov provide survey weights (made available here) that can be used to adjust our data to make it politically and demographically representative of the wider British population (e.g. in terms of age, social class, level of education, vote choice and political attentiveness). For more information on YouGov’s methodology please see: https://yougov.co.uk/about/panel-methodology. The survey design and fielding of the Study was made possible by generous funding from the from the British Academy’s Innovation Fellowship scheme (grant number: IF\220068, project title: ‘Are Generations Selfish? How Can Policy-Makers Bridge the Age Divide in British Politics?’). We are very grateful for the Academy’s support. In addition, we would like to thank all of those who provided us with feedback on early drafts of our survey questionnaire. This includes all of those who attended our presentations at the British Academy’s Innovation Fellowship Induction Event in London (June 2022), as well as Katie Breeze, Kathleen Henehan, Bobby Duffy, Rob Ford, Steve Fisher, Petra Schleiter, Patrick White, James Tilley, and Tiphaine Le Corre, in particular. Finally, this dataset is dedicated to the memory of Jim Grant (1958 – 2023), a lifelong champion for improving young people’s access to high quality further education and training.