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Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of life)
Quality of Life surveys
Summary information and detailed abstracts on all "Quality of Life in Britain" surveys conducted at the SSRC Survey Unit between 1971 and 1975 by Mark Abrams and John Hall. (Variables, fieldwork, sampling, facsimile questionnaires, user-manuals, data sets.)
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 small areas as 1973, different primary sampling units)
Selected QoL questions were replicated in:
“Trinians” - Opinions and attitudes of senior girls at a public school: (Feb 1973 N=216)
..and also in a later survey at the Polytechnic of North London:
Playground to Politics: A study of teenagers' attitudes (Dec 1981, N=142)
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 small areas as 1973, different primary sampling units)
Selected QoL questions were replicated in:
“Trinians” - Opinions and attitudes of senior girls at a public school: (Feb 1973 N=216)
..and also in a later survey at the Polytechnic of North London:
Playground to Politics: A study of teenagers' attitudes (Dec 1981, N=142)
Publications for SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain Surveys
Lists reports and papers available on this site
Archived material from SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life surveys
(Link to SSRC QoL material held at UK Data Archive, Essex University.)
World Database of Happiness
The World Database of Happiness was set up by Prof. Ruut Veenhoven (Erasmus Universty, Rotterdam) It is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life. It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work.
