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Survey Unit
Social Science Research Council
In April 1970 the then Social Science Research Council (SSRC) set up its Survey Unit with the late Dr Mark Abrams as (part-time) Director. The Unit was “attached to, but not of, the LSE” for computing and sundry other purposes. Its brief was to offer advice and assistance in survey methods to academics and others doing surveys on public funds. As well as conducting surveys for SSRC and its committees, it also had a watching brief on computing in the social sciences and an internal research programme to develop survey measures of Quality of Life. Amid great controversy, SSRC closed the unit in 1976 and all staff were made redundant.
Surveys
The unit conducted surveys for Council and other surveys as part of its internal research programme
Publications
The unit published various reports, some of which are downloadable from this site.
Courses, Conferences and Seminars
The unit offered a residential summer school on survey methods and also organised seminars and conferences relating to its research programme (principally quality of life) the relationship of survey research to social theory and the development of computing in the social sciences
