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SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain surveys 1971 - 1975: abstracts, data and documentation
[New page 18 November 2013: last updated 22 June 2021]
This page contains links to details of all four national and two local surveys conducted at the SSRC Survey Unit between 1971 and 1975 by Mark Abrams and John Hall.
Quality of Life: 1st pilot survey, March 1971 (N=213, quota)
Quality of Life: 2nd pilot survey, Oct-Nov-1971 (N=593, quota within probability for sampling points)
Quality of Life: 1st main UK survey, Nov 1973 – Jan 1974 (N=966, probability)
Quality of Life: Stoke-on-Trent Nov 1973 – Jan 1974 (N=764, probability)
Quality of Life: Sunderland Nov 1973 – Jan 1974(N=788, probability)
Quality of Life: 2nd main UK survey March – May 1975 (N=932, probability):
(same electoral wards as 1973, different primary sampling units)
The abstracts contain details of content, sampling, fieldwork and available data files. The questionnaires are facsimiles of the actual questionnaires used in the field. The user manuals contain questionnaires, unweighted frequency counts on the raw data as well as technical information on fieldwork, sampling, coding, show-cards and interviewer instructions. The SPSS saved files are restorations from original files generated in the 1970s with some editing of SPSS setup files from 1970s versions to SPSS for Windows (11, 15, 18 and 19): a few (self-explanatory) derived variables have been left in.
This page contains links to details of all four national and two local surveys conducted at the SSRC Survey Unit between 1971 and 1975 by Mark Abrams and John Hall.
Quality of Life: 1st pilot survey, March 1971 (N=213, quota)
Quality of Life: 2nd pilot survey, Oct-Nov-1971 (N=593, quota within probability for sampling points)
Quality of Life: 1st main UK survey, Nov 1973 – Jan 1974 (N=966, probability)
Quality of Life: Stoke-on-Trent Nov 1973 – Jan 1974 (N=764, probability)
Quality of Life: Sunderland Nov 1973 – Jan 1974(N=788, probability)
Quality of Life: 2nd main UK survey March – May 1975 (N=932, probability):
(same electoral wards as 1973, different primary sampling units)
The abstracts contain details of content, sampling, fieldwork and available data files. The questionnaires are facsimiles of the actual questionnaires used in the field. The user manuals contain questionnaires, unweighted frequency counts on the raw data as well as technical information on fieldwork, sampling, coding, show-cards and interviewer instructions. The SPSS saved files are restorations from original files generated in the 1970s with some editing of SPSS setup files from 1970s versions to SPSS for Windows (11, 15, 18 and 19): a few (self-explanatory) derived variables have been left in.
Quality of Life in Britain: 1st Pilot Survey, March 1971
1: Abstract
2: Questionnaire
3: User Manual
4: SPSS saved file for 1st pilot
2: Questionnaire
3: User Manual
4: SPSS saved file for 1st pilot
Quality of Life in Britain: 2nd Pilot Survey, Oct-Nov 1971
1: Abstract
2: Questionnaire
3: User Manual
4: SPSS saved file for 2nd pilot
2: Questionnaire
3: User Manual
4: SPSS saved file for 2nd pilot
Quality of Life in Britain: 1st National Survey 1973
(replicated simultaneously in Stoke-on-Trent and Sunderland)
1: Abstract
2: Questionnaire
3: Hall J F, Lord D, Marsh C and Ring A J
The Quality of Life Survey: Urban Britain 1973 - Users' Manual (pdf scan)
(SSRC Survey Unit, 1976, reprinted 1980)
4a: SPSS saved file for main GB survey 1973
4b: SPSS saved file for Stoke-on-Trent survey 1973
4c: SPSS saved file for Sunderland survey 1973
1: Abstract
2: Questionnaire
3: Hall J F, Lord D, Marsh C and Ring A J
The Quality of Life Survey: Urban Britain 1973 - Users' Manual (pdf scan)
(SSRC Survey Unit, 1976, reprinted 1980)
4a: SPSS saved file for main GB survey 1973
4b: SPSS saved file for Stoke-on-Trent survey 1973
4c: SPSS saved file for Sunderland survey 1973
Quality of Life in Britain: 2nd National Survey 1975
1: Abstract
2: Questionnaire
3: John Hall and David Lord
Draft User Manual: Quality of Life Survey 1975 (pdf)
(SSRC Survey Unit, 1975)
4: Data lodged in SPSS format with UK Data Service as SN915
[http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-915-1]
5: John F Hall
The Quality of Life in Urban Britain 1975: Users' Manual
(Research Report no 8, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London, 1982)
(Scanned Nov 2021: 174pp., 113 mb)
2: Questionnaire
3: John Hall and David Lord
Draft User Manual: Quality of Life Survey 1975 (pdf)
(SSRC Survey Unit, 1975)
4: Data lodged in SPSS format with UK Data Service as SN915
[http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-915-1]
5: John F Hall
The Quality of Life in Urban Britain 1975: Users' Manual
(Research Report no 8, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London, 1982)
(Scanned Nov 2021: 174pp., 113 mb)
Showcards
Satisfaction scale showcards
1st GB pilot May 1971: 0-10 ladder
2nd GB pilot Oct 1971: 1-7 ladder (as per USA survey)
Main GB, Stoke-on-Trent and Sunderland 1973, GB 1975: 0-10 boxed beads
2nd GB pilot Oct 1971: 1-7 ladder (as per USA survey)
Main GB, Stoke-on-Trent and Sunderland 1973, GB 1975: 0-10 boxed beads