Northern Ireland General Election and Political Attitudes Survey, 1992

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The purpose of this study was to:<br>
extend the &lt;i&gt;British General Election Study&lt;/i&gt; to Northern Ireland (the &lt;i&gt;British General Election Study, 1992&lt;/i&gt; is held at The Data Archive under study number 2981)<br>
provide longitudinal comparisons with previous work in the same area, namely Rose (1971) and Moxon-Browne (1983)<br>
provide, for the first time, an attitudinal survey `locked into' a specific general election<br>
to compare social attitudes in Northern Ireland and Britain.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Key topics covered in this study were: the social bases of political allegiance in Northern Ireland; the persisting importance of religious affiliation in Northern Ireland politics; the development of a loyalism-nationalism Likert scale; the continuities and changes in the evolution of self-perceived national identity 1968-1992; the territorial and local aspects of political interest, voting and party preference, the campaign issues and ideologies.