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- My personal pantheon (of the great and the good in survey research)
- Recent and planned activities
- Textbooks for Research Methods and Data Analysis
- 1: Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
- 1a: Statistical concepts and methods
- 1b: Teaching with Survey Data
- 1c: Developing research projects using survey data
- 1d: Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
- 2: Survey Research Practice
- 2a: Survey Research Methodology, Practice and Training
- 2b: Major survey series
- 3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
- 4: Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (UK)
- 5a: Polytechnic of North London (1976-1992)
- 5b: Survey Research Unit (1978-1992)
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Mark Abrams: Publications
Publications available on this site
(from the SSRC Survey Unit years, 1970-76: links are to publications)
Mark Abrams & John Hall The Condition of the British People
(Joint UK/USA SSRC conference on Social Indicators, Ditchley Park, May 1971)
Mark Abrams Social Indicators and Social Equity
(New Society, 23 Nov 1972)
Mark Abrams & John Hall Life Satisfaction of the British People: October - November 1971
(OECD conference on Social Indicators, Paris, May 1972)
Mark Abrams Social Indicators and Social Equity
(New Society, 23 Nov 1972)
Mark Abrams and John Hall Attitudes of Girls in Senior Forms
Internal SSRC SU paper reporting on selected findings (Feb 1973)
Mark Abrams Subjective Social Indicators
(in Nissel M [Ed] Social Trends No 4 HMSO, 1973)
Mark Abrams & John Hall Subjective Social Indicators
(OECD Working Party on Social Indicators, Paris, April 1973)
Mark Abrams This Britain 1: A Contented Nation?
(New Society, 21 Feb 1974 )
Mark Abrams Subjective Measures of Equity
(SSRC/OECD seminar, Social Inequality, Cambridge, 1974)
Mark Abrams Social Surveys, Social Theory and Social Policy
(Paper to special conference session at LSE, SSRC Survey Unit, 1st April 1974)
Mark Abrams Changing Values: a portrait of Britain
(Encounter, October, 1974)
Mark Abrams Middle Class Socialists
(Encounter, March, 1975)
Mark Abrams Social Indicators 1971-1975
(WAPOR,session: Economic Policy Research & Social Indicators,, 3 September 1975)
Mark Abrams Note: Subjective Social Indicators
(Extract from Nissel,M [Ed] Social Trends 6, HMSO, 1975)
Mark Abrams Review of work on subjective social indicators, 1971 to 975 (Google books page)
(Research report 8, SSRC Survey Unit, 1976)
Mark Abrams Beyond Three-score and Ten: a first report (Age Concern 1977)
Mark Abrams Beyond_three-score_and_ten: a_second_report (Age Concern 1980)
Other publications
(links are to Google books pages)
1930 -1949
Marketing of fruit and vegetables in the Vale of Evesham
(Avoncroft College, 1931)
The Condition of the British people: 1911-1945 (V. Gollancz 1945)
Types of families in Great Britain, 1945
(Appendix B in Town and country planning textbook, Architectural Press, 1950)
Britain and her Export Trade
(Pilot Press, 1946)
Die Lebenshaltung des Englischen Volkes, 1911-1945
(Scherpe, 1946)
The state of the nation: an economic survey in pictorial form
(The Bureau of Current Affairs,1947)
!950 - 1959
Social Surveys and Social Action
(Heinemann, 1951)
The welfare state
(Bureau of Current Affairs, 1951)
The readership survey of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising
(Explanatory manual prepared for the I.P.A , Argil, 1957 )
The National Readership Surveys of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising: years 1957 and 1958
(Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, 1958)
Teenage consumer spending in 1959 and Teenage consumers
(London Press Exchange, 1959)
Conference on statistical methods in social investigations
(Queens' College Cambridge, September 25th - 27th 1959)
1960 - 1969
Must Labour Lose?
(with Richard Rose, Penguin, 1960)
Motivation research and depth communication
(Green Meadow Foundation, 1960)
The Newspaper reading public of tomorrow
(Odhams, 1964)
Education, social class and readership of newspapers and magazines:1968
(Joint Industry Committee for National Readership Surveys, 1969)
British society to-day: a critical approach.
(with Michel Poussard and John Emery, Hachette, 1969)
1970 - 1979
Estratificación social
(with John Archer Jackson and Ed Shils, Ediciones Península, 1971)
The elderly: an overview of current British social research
(National Corp. for the Care of Old People and Age Concern, 1978)
Political action: an eight nation study, 1973-1976
(Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1979)
1980 onwards
Beyond Three Score and Ten
(Age Concern 1980)
Education and elderly people
(Age Concern Research Unit, 1982)
People in their late sixties: a longitudinal survey of ageing
(Age Concern Research Unit, Age Concern England, 1983)
Values and social change in Britain
(with Gerard D and Timms N [Eds], Macmillan 1985)
The Population of Great Britain
(London Press Exchange report, originally published by George, Allen & Unwin ??1960s??
Lightning Source Inc., 2007)