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Bibliography for Quality of Life in Britain and related surveys
[Page last updated 10 June 2020]
Lists all known publications and papers deriving from surveys on subjective social indicators (“Quality of Life”) and related areas conducted, processed or analysed by the SSRC Survey Unit (1970 -1976) and the Survey Research Unit at the Polytechnic of North London (1976 – 1992)
Surveys
Full details with links to abstracts, questionnaires, user manuals and SPSS saved files are on page SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain surveys. Data from all the SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain surveys (March 1971, Oct-Nov 1971, 1973 and 1975) are downloadable, along with full documentation, as SPSS saved files directly from page Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life).
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 wards as 1973)
Lists all known publications and papers deriving from surveys on subjective social indicators (“Quality of Life”) and related areas conducted, processed or analysed by the SSRC Survey Unit (1970 -1976) and the Survey Research Unit at the Polytechnic of North London (1976 – 1992)
Surveys
Full details with links to abstracts, questionnaires, user manuals and SPSS saved files are on page SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain surveys. Data from all the SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain surveys (March 1971, Oct-Nov 1971, 1973 and 1975) are downloadable, along with full documentation, as SPSS saved files directly from page Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life).
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 wards as 1973)
Publications and reports
[Hyperlinks are to publications and reports available in pdf format from this website or from site specified].
Abrams M A and Hall J F
The Condition of the British People
Joint UK/USA SSRC conference on Social Indicators, Ditchley Park, May 1971
Abrams M A and Hall J F
Life Satisfaction of the British People
OECD conference on Social Indicators, Paris, May 1972
Abrams M A and Hall J F
Subjective Social Indicators
OECD Working Party on Social Indicators, Paris, April 1973
Abrams M A
Subjective Social Indicators
in Nissel M (Ed) Social Trends No 4 HMSO, 1973
Hall J F
Measuring the Quality of Life Using Sample Surveys
in Stober G and Schumacher D (Eds) Technology Assessment and Quality of Life Elsevier, 1973
Hall J F
Social Indicators: a subjective approach
Census Research Group, Chester, June 1973
Abrams M A
Subjective Measures of Equity
SSRC/OECD seminar on Social Inequality Cambridge, 1974
Hall J F and Perry N H
Aspects of Leisure in Two Industrial Cities (Stoke-on-Trent and Sunderland),
Occasional Paper No 5, SSRC Survey Unit, 1974
Hall J F and Ring A J
Indicators of Environmental Quality and Life-Satisfaction: a subjective approach.
Invited paper to Research Cttee 26 (Social Ecology) International Sociological Association 8th World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, August, 1974
Hall J F
Subjective Zoning of Sunderland.
Teach-in on Community Analysis sponsored by Sunderland Programme Planning Unit held at The Percy Arms, Otterburn, October, 1974
Ring A J and Hall J F
Models of Life Satisfaction
BSA Quantitative Sociology Group, Surrey Univ, April 1974
Ring A J
The extension of Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) to include ordered predictors
Quantitative Sociology Newsletter 13, 1974
Abrams M A
Changing Values: a portrait of Britain [Link to pdf in Encounter Archive at www.unz.org]
Encounter, October, 1974, pp 29-37
McKennell A C
Cognition and Affect in Judgments of Subjective Well-Being in
Strumpel B [Ed] Subjective Elements of Well-Being OECD Paris 1974
Abrams M A
The British Middle Class Socialist [Link to pdf in Encounter Archive at www.unz.org]
Encounter, March, 1975 pp 7-15
Abrams M A
Note: Subjective Social Indicators
Extract from Nissel,M [Ed] Social Trends 6, HMSO, 1975
Marsh A
The Silent Revolution: Value Priorities and the Quality of Life in Britain
American Political Science Review Vol LXIX No 1, 1975 pp 21-30
Abrams M A
A review of work on subjective social indicators 1971 to 1975
Occasional Papers in Survey Research No 8. SSRC Survey Unit 1976
Hall J F & Ring A J
The relationship between subjective and objective indicators of individual well-being: a linear modelling approach
Paper to UK/USA SSRC Conference on Subjective Measures of Quality of Life, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
SSRC Survey Unit, September, 1975
Hall, J., & Dann, G.
QL4 path analysis
(Unpublished position paper: SSRC, Survey Unit,1975).
Marsh C 1975
Job Satisfaction: the Search Goes On
Paper to UK/USA SSRC Conference on Subjective Measures of Quality of Life, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
SSRC Survey Unit, September, 1975
Hall J F, Lord D, Marsh C and Ring A J
The Quality of Life Survey: Urban Britain 1973 - Users' Manual
SSRC Survey Unit 1976
O'Muircheartaigh C and Whelan B
Statistical Aspects of Subjective Measures of Quality of Life
Occasional Paper No 4 SSRC Survey Unit, 1976
Hall J F
Subjective measures of quality of life in Britain 1971 to 1975: Some developments and trends. Specially commissioned article in Thompson E (Ed) Social Trends No. 7 HMSO 1976
Hall J F
The Way We Like It
in Smith L and Thomas H (Eds) Places for People; a resources handbook
Guardian Business Services, 1976
Hall J F and Perry N H
Aspects of Leisure in Two Industrial Cities
in Leisure and the Quality of Life Vol 2 HMSO 1977
McKennell A C
Cognition and Affect in Perceptions of Well-Being
Social Indicators Research 5 1977 pp389-426
Andrews F M and McKennell A C
Measures of Cognition and Affect in Self-reported Well-Being: Their Affective, Cognitive and other components
Social Indicators Research 8 1980 pp 127 -155
Harding S D and Hall J F
Correlates of District Satisfaction
Working paper, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London, 1981
Hall J F
The Quality of Life in Urban Britain 1975: Users' Manual
Research Report no 8, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London 1982
Harding S D
Psychological Well-Being in Great Britain: an evaluation of the Bradburn Affect-Balance scale Personality and Individual Differences 1985
Hall, John F
Transcript of contribution from floor to Statistics Users Council Conference on Quality of Life Indicators (1987)
Hall, John
Letter to Dr John Cunningham MP, Shadow Secretary of State (Environment) in November 1988, (responding to a report that Dr Cunningham was to be put in charge of co-ordinating the Shadow Cabinet's attack on quality of life issues and offering assistance from Dr Mark Abrams and himself. Answer came there none.)
[Hyperlinks are to publications and reports available in pdf format from this website or from site specified].
Abrams M A and Hall J F
The Condition of the British People
Joint UK/USA SSRC conference on Social Indicators, Ditchley Park, May 1971
Abrams M A and Hall J F
Life Satisfaction of the British People
OECD conference on Social Indicators, Paris, May 1972
Abrams M A and Hall J F
Subjective Social Indicators
OECD Working Party on Social Indicators, Paris, April 1973
Abrams M A
Subjective Social Indicators
in Nissel M (Ed) Social Trends No 4 HMSO, 1973
Hall J F
Measuring the Quality of Life Using Sample Surveys
in Stober G and Schumacher D (Eds) Technology Assessment and Quality of Life Elsevier, 1973
Hall J F
Social Indicators: a subjective approach
Census Research Group, Chester, June 1973
Abrams M A
Subjective Measures of Equity
SSRC/OECD seminar on Social Inequality Cambridge, 1974
Hall J F and Perry N H
Aspects of Leisure in Two Industrial Cities (Stoke-on-Trent and Sunderland),
Occasional Paper No 5, SSRC Survey Unit, 1974
Hall J F and Ring A J
Indicators of Environmental Quality and Life-Satisfaction: a subjective approach.
Invited paper to Research Cttee 26 (Social Ecology) International Sociological Association 8th World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, August, 1974
Hall J F
Subjective Zoning of Sunderland.
Teach-in on Community Analysis sponsored by Sunderland Programme Planning Unit held at The Percy Arms, Otterburn, October, 1974
Ring A J and Hall J F
Models of Life Satisfaction
BSA Quantitative Sociology Group, Surrey Univ, April 1974
Ring A J
The extension of Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) to include ordered predictors
Quantitative Sociology Newsletter 13, 1974
Abrams M A
Changing Values: a portrait of Britain [Link to pdf in Encounter Archive at www.unz.org]
Encounter, October, 1974, pp 29-37
McKennell A C
Cognition and Affect in Judgments of Subjective Well-Being in
Strumpel B [Ed] Subjective Elements of Well-Being OECD Paris 1974
Abrams M A
The British Middle Class Socialist [Link to pdf in Encounter Archive at www.unz.org]
Encounter, March, 1975 pp 7-15
Abrams M A
Note: Subjective Social Indicators
Extract from Nissel,M [Ed] Social Trends 6, HMSO, 1975
Marsh A
The Silent Revolution: Value Priorities and the Quality of Life in Britain
American Political Science Review Vol LXIX No 1, 1975 pp 21-30
Abrams M A
A review of work on subjective social indicators 1971 to 1975
Occasional Papers in Survey Research No 8. SSRC Survey Unit 1976
Hall J F & Ring A J
The relationship between subjective and objective indicators of individual well-being: a linear modelling approach
Paper to UK/USA SSRC Conference on Subjective Measures of Quality of Life, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
SSRC Survey Unit, September, 1975
Hall, J., & Dann, G.
QL4 path analysis
(Unpublished position paper: SSRC, Survey Unit,1975).
Marsh C 1975
Job Satisfaction: the Search Goes On
Paper to UK/USA SSRC Conference on Subjective Measures of Quality of Life, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
SSRC Survey Unit, September, 1975
Hall J F, Lord D, Marsh C and Ring A J
The Quality of Life Survey: Urban Britain 1973 - Users' Manual
SSRC Survey Unit 1976
O'Muircheartaigh C and Whelan B
Statistical Aspects of Subjective Measures of Quality of Life
Occasional Paper No 4 SSRC Survey Unit, 1976
Hall J F
Subjective measures of quality of life in Britain 1971 to 1975: Some developments and trends. Specially commissioned article in Thompson E (Ed) Social Trends No. 7 HMSO 1976
Hall J F
The Way We Like It
in Smith L and Thomas H (Eds) Places for People; a resources handbook
Guardian Business Services, 1976
Hall J F and Perry N H
Aspects of Leisure in Two Industrial Cities
in Leisure and the Quality of Life Vol 2 HMSO 1977
McKennell A C
Cognition and Affect in Perceptions of Well-Being
Social Indicators Research 5 1977 pp389-426
Andrews F M and McKennell A C
Measures of Cognition and Affect in Self-reported Well-Being: Their Affective, Cognitive and other components
Social Indicators Research 8 1980 pp 127 -155
Harding S D and Hall J F
Correlates of District Satisfaction
Working paper, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London, 1981
Hall J F
The Quality of Life in Urban Britain 1975: Users' Manual
Research Report no 8, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London 1982
Harding S D
Psychological Well-Being in Great Britain: an evaluation of the Bradburn Affect-Balance scale Personality and Individual Differences 1985
Hall, John F
Transcript of contribution from floor to Statistics Users Council Conference on Quality of Life Indicators (1987)
Hall, John
Letter to Dr John Cunningham MP, Shadow Secretary of State (Environment) in November 1988, (responding to a report that Dr Cunningham was to be put in charge of co-ordinating the Shadow Cabinet's attack on quality of life issues and offering assistance from Dr Mark Abrams and himself. Answer came there none.)