PRACTICAL SOCIAL INVESTIGATION:
THE BRITISH SOCIAL ATTITUDES 1991 SURVEY DATASET
BSA91.SAV contains a small subset of the variables generated by the 1991 British Social Attitudes Survey carried out by SCPR (since renamed the National Centre for Social Research). Data corresponding to all the respondents are included. The original questions that generated the variables can be found in a copy of the questionnaire in the back of Jowell et al. (1992), or on the Question Bank website (http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/). Some of the variables correspond very closely to (pre-coded) questions, but others are derived variables where, for example, a standard class schema has been used to code information relating to occupations into class categories. (For brief descriptions of the Registrar General's Social Class schema and of Goldthorpe classes see Edgell, 1993). In the dataset, the variable label attached to each variable specifies whether the variable comes from a specific question or is a derived variable (dv).
Download the data file by clicking here: bsa91.sav
Variables contained in the SPSS system file BSA91.SAV:
SRSOCCL |
Respondent's self-rated social class. |
RRGCLASS |
Respondent's Registrar General's Social Class (based on current or last occupation). |
RSEX |
Respondent's sex. |
PRSOCCL |
Parents' social class (as rated by respondent). |
PARTYID2 |
Respondent's party political identification. |
AFTRLIFE |
Does the respondent believe in life after death? |
THEDEVIL |
Does the respondent believe in the Devil? |
HEAVEN |
Does the respondent believe in Heaven? |
HELL |
Does the respondent believe in Hell? |
RELGMIRC |
Does the respondent believe in religious miracles? |
SEXROLE |
Respondent's view on the statement: "A husband's job is to earn money; a wife's job is to look after the home and family". |
MARSTAT |
Respondent's marital status. |
RACEORIG |
Respondent's self-rated ethnic identity. |
RAGE |
Respondent's age in years. |
REGION2 |
Geographical region. |
RELIGION |
Religious denomination. |
TENURE2 |
Housing tenure. |
CAROWN |
Does the household own/use a car or van? |
HEDQUAL |
Respondent's highest educational qualification. |
HHINCOME |
Total household income (per annum). |
HOMETYPE |
Type of accommodation (house, flat, etc.) |
RECONACT |
Employment status (main economic activity in last seven days). |
RGHCLASS |
Respondent's current Goldthorpe(-Heath) class (based on own occupation). |
TEA |
Terminal education age. |
SEXBFMAR |
Respondent's view on sex before marriage. |
ADULTERY |
Respondent's view on sex with someone other than one's spouse. |
SEXHOMO |
Respondent's view on sex between two adults of the same sex. |
DIVORCE |
Respondent's view on whether divorce should be easier. |
REDISTRB |
Respondent's view on whether the government should redistribute income. |
REFERENCE
Edgell, S. 1993. Class. London: Routledge.