British Social Attitudes Survey - 1983

SUMMARY:

The eligible persons were all adults aged 18 or over living in private households in Britain. The sampling was multi-stage. At the first stage, parliamentary constituencies were sampled with probability proportionate to electorate size (PPES). At the second stage, districts were sampled out of the selected constituencies with PPES again. Thirdly, addresses from each of the selected districts were sampled. At the fourth stage an individual was randomly selected at each address. The data refer to surveys carried out in 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986. There were seven dichotomous items asking whether the respondent supported or opposed a woman's right to have an abortion under different circumstances each year. Finally there were 410 respondents who responded to all four years' interviews. The data consist of completed results of 264 respondents out of 410 with 9 variables for each record. There are 1056 records from the joining of four years' data. The format is as follows:

DATA DESCRIPTION:

ARGUMENTS:

Districts
codes 1-54.
id
respondent code 39-3388.
year
1983=1; 1984=2; 1985=3; 1986=4.
numYes
the number of yes responses out of the set of seven questions.
party
Party chosen at any one of the stages: Conservative=1; Labour=2; Liberal/SDP/Alliance=3; other party=4; none=5.
class
middle=1; upper working=2; lower working=3.
Gender
male=1; female=2.
Age
In years from 18 to 80.
Religion
Roman Catholic=1; Protestant/Church of England=2; other religion=3; no religion=4.
no.replicate
The number of questions asked, seven in all cases.

SOURCE:

The data come from British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey started in 1983.

Ashworth, K & Wiggins, R (1991). A Multilevel Analysis of Social Attitude Data. In: Data Analysis with ML3. eds. R. Prosser, J. Rasbash and H.Goldstein, Institute of education, London.

Knott, M., Albanese, M.T.and Galbraith, J.I.(1991). Scoring attitudes to abortion. The Statistician, 40, 217-224.

McGrath, K. & Waterton, J.(1986). British Social Attitudes, 1983-1986 Panel Survey. Technical Report. London, Social and Community Planning Research.

Wiggins, R.D., Ashworth, K., O'Muircheartaigh,C.A.and Galbraith, J.I. (1991). Multilevel analysis of attitudes to abortion. The Statistician, 40, 225-234.

Witherspoon,S.(1983). Britsh Social Attitudes, Technical Report; London, Social and Community Planning Research.

EXAMPLES:

gee(cbind(numYes,no.replicate-numYes)~religious+age, cluster=id, 
  family="binomial", link="logit", variance="glm.scale",
  correlation=list(type="AR",x.layer="year"), data=Socatt)