British Social Attitudes Survey, 2021

<p><strong>Background</strong><br>The 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 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>
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<div><span style="font-weight: bold;">BSA 2021</span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div><div>The 2021 BSA survey used a mixed-mode push-to-web design with an optional Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) opt-in. Letters were sent to a random sample of addresses inviting up to two household members to complete the survey online, with an option to be interviewed by phone if preferred. This is the same design used for the 2020 BSA. Before 2020, BSA was a face-to-face survey, but this was changed due to the public health measures introduced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.</div>
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<div>The full BSA 2021 report, <a title="Broken Britain? Public attitudes in an era of crisis" href="https://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-report/british-social-attitudes-39/introduction.aspx" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Broken Britain? Public attitudes in an era of crisis</a> is available from the NatCen Social Research website.</div><div><div><div id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x__com_1" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_msocomtxt"><span>
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