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The "Trinians" survey
[Page last updated 26 July 2011]
In Feb 1973, Sarah Abrams, daughter of the late Dr Mark Abrams (Director of the SSRC Survey Unit) was a pupil at St Paul’s Girls’ School, London, and editor of Folio, the school magazine run jointly with the boys’ school. She wanted to write something for the magazine about the social and political opnions and attitudes of her fellow pupils, and mentioned this to her father, who arranged for her to come and meet himself and John Hall (Senior Research Fellow) at the Unit. Never able to resist the temptation of an interesting survey, Mark and John proposed (on methodological grounds) to use the idea to run a “quickie” survey at the school, in collaboration with Sarah, subject to consent of the High Mistress.
This was within our remit and was justified by the methodological aspect as it allowed us not only to test the layout of a self-completion questionnaire, but also to test some batteries of items used in some of our in-house surveys. This was a real "quickie" survey which took 3 weeks from initial request to preliminary report which we undertook mainly because neither of us could resist the opportunity of involvement in an interesting survey!
Report [must find, scan and upload it]
Mark Abrams and John Hall
Attitudes and Opinions of Girls in Senior Forms
Internal SSRC SU paper reporting on selected findings (Feb 973)
The following files are available on this site:
Sarah Abrams
Survey (Article in Folio, magazine of St Paul's Schools, Vol 20,1,1973: pdf, 5pp)
Trinians flysheet [pdf] gives full details of the "quickie" survey by John Hall and Mark Abrams: completed by senior pupils at St Paul's Girls' School in Feb 1973, partly justified on methodological grounds,
Trinians questionnaire [pdf] Facsimile of original self-completion questionnaire, a real scissors and sticky tape job, which I had to do at home as I didn't have a typewriter at work! Very tight on space, so no markup for data capture, which had to be done later using a transfer sheet.
trinians.dat [txt] contains the original raw data for survey, transferred from coding sheets. Not all questions were coded or entered.
trinians.sav [sav] is the restored SPSS saved file, complete with dictionary information. File order of the variables is not the same as questionnaire order: not all questions are coded or entered.
Trinians log [pdf] is a detailed log kept by John Hall in Jan/Feb 2004 and, as a relative newbie to Windows, Word and SPSS 11 for Windows, he struggled to check the data, convert the original SPSS syntax files and recreate the SPSS saved files, work which had been done thirty years previously on a mainframe version of SPSS in 1973. The result is a major feat of memory and data archaeology
In Feb 1973, Sarah Abrams, daughter of the late Dr Mark Abrams (Director of the SSRC Survey Unit) was a pupil at St Paul’s Girls’ School, London, and editor of Folio, the school magazine run jointly with the boys’ school. She wanted to write something for the magazine about the social and political opnions and attitudes of her fellow pupils, and mentioned this to her father, who arranged for her to come and meet himself and John Hall (Senior Research Fellow) at the Unit. Never able to resist the temptation of an interesting survey, Mark and John proposed (on methodological grounds) to use the idea to run a “quickie” survey at the school, in collaboration with Sarah, subject to consent of the High Mistress.
This was within our remit and was justified by the methodological aspect as it allowed us not only to test the layout of a self-completion questionnaire, but also to test some batteries of items used in some of our in-house surveys. This was a real "quickie" survey which took 3 weeks from initial request to preliminary report which we undertook mainly because neither of us could resist the opportunity of involvement in an interesting survey!
Report [must find, scan and upload it]
Mark Abrams and John Hall
Attitudes and Opinions of Girls in Senior Forms
Internal SSRC SU paper reporting on selected findings (Feb 973)
The following files are available on this site:
Sarah Abrams
Survey (Article in Folio, magazine of St Paul's Schools, Vol 20,1,1973: pdf, 5pp)
Trinians flysheet [pdf] gives full details of the "quickie" survey by John Hall and Mark Abrams: completed by senior pupils at St Paul's Girls' School in Feb 1973, partly justified on methodological grounds,
Trinians questionnaire [pdf] Facsimile of original self-completion questionnaire, a real scissors and sticky tape job, which I had to do at home as I didn't have a typewriter at work! Very tight on space, so no markup for data capture, which had to be done later using a transfer sheet.
trinians.dat [txt] contains the original raw data for survey, transferred from coding sheets. Not all questions were coded or entered.
trinians.sav [sav] is the restored SPSS saved file, complete with dictionary information. File order of the variables is not the same as questionnaire order: not all questions are coded or entered.
Trinians log [pdf] is a detailed log kept by John Hall in Jan/Feb 2004 and, as a relative newbie to Windows, Word and SPSS 11 for Windows, he struggled to check the data, convert the original SPSS syntax files and recreate the SPSS saved files, work which had been done thirty years previously on a mainframe version of SPSS in 1973. The result is a major feat of memory and data archaeology
