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Playground to Politics
A study of values and attitudes among fifth formers in a North London comprehensive school.
This survey, conducted in a North London comprehensive school (11-18 mixed) in December 1981, was designed and conducted, under my guidance and supervision, by three of my sophomore students as part of their group research dissertation for BA Applied Social Studies (Social Research) at the Polytechnic of North London. The questionnaire was completed by all fifth form pupils present on the day of the survey (N=142). It aimed to discover something about pupils' future expectations and awareness of, and attitudes towards, various current social issues and problems. It replicates various items and scales from other work (Wilson-Patterson, Eysenck, Himmelweit, Srole-Christie) particularly the St Paul's Girls senior pupils study (Feb 1973) some of which were also used in the SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life surveys 1971-75. The self-completion questionnaire was administered during time-tabled Social Studies classes and, time permitting, was followed by discussion with class teachers and the PNL students of the issues covered in the survey.
This survey, conducted in a North London comprehensive school (11-18 mixed) in December 1981, was designed and conducted, under my guidance and supervision, by three of my sophomore students as part of their group research dissertation for BA Applied Social Studies (Social Research) at the Polytechnic of North London. The questionnaire was completed by all fifth form pupils present on the day of the survey (N=142). It aimed to discover something about pupils' future expectations and awareness of, and attitudes towards, various current social issues and problems. It replicates various items and scales from other work (Wilson-Patterson, Eysenck, Himmelweit, Srole-Christie) particularly the St Paul's Girls senior pupils study (Feb 1973) some of which were also used in the SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life surveys 1971-75. The self-completion questionnaire was administered during time-tabled Social Studies classes and, time permitting, was followed by discussion with class teachers and the PNL students of the issues covered in the survey.
Questionnaire
Facsimile self-completion questionnaire administered to all 5th form pupils present on the day of the survey.
SPSS saved file
Saved file with full dictionary information, but no derived variables. This is a saved file using SPSS. If you want to use it you need to be a licensed user of SPSS or a registered user on a licensed site. It is for use with the Derived Variables COUNT document and the COUNT and COMPUTE tutorials.
Raw data file
Original raw data file (3 records per case) Includes alphanumeric data which has to be converted.
Multipunched data
Multipunched answers were spread out on a 4th record
User manual
Survey conducted in December 1981 under my supervision by three sophomore students as part of their research dissertation. By agreement with the Head Teacher, and as part of their Social Studies programme, all fifth form pupils present on the survey day were given self-completion questionnaires. This user manual was prepared for later use with undergraduate courses in data management and analysis and the postgraduate Survey Analysis Workshop.
