SSRC Survey Unit: publications

[Page last updated 21 May 2016]
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Most of the following publications are out of print, but you may be able to track down some of them via a library near you.  The ones listed below with blue hyperlinks are available from Occasional papers in survey research or are downloadable from this site.

The Social Ecology of Urban Renewal
is John Hall's 1972 proposal, in very poor pdf format scanned on a cheap Dell scanner (almost line-by-line)  for secondary analysis of the Salford Work and Home survey, prepared for a series of seminars on Survey Research and Social Theory chaired by Morris Janowitz ​(Chicago)

Subjective Social Indicators 

Mark Abrams
A review of work on subjective social indicators 1971 to 1975
Occasional Papers in Survey Research No 8, SSRC Survey Unit, 1976

John Hall, David Lord, Cathie Marsh and James Ring
Quality of Life Survey (Urban Britain 1973)​  (Downloadable from this site)
[User Manual ] Volume 1: Distribution of Responses and Questionnaire
SSRC Survey Unit, 1976 

C A O'Muircheartaigh and B J Whelan
Statistical aspects of subjective measures of quality of life
Occasional Papers in Survey Research No 4, SSRC Survey Unit, 1976

The Quality of Life in Britain page on this site lists various papers scanned and uploaded to this site (with links) plus a bibliography listing all other known publications.

Computing in the Social Sciences

Utting J E G and Hall J F
The use of computers in university social science departments
Occasional Paper No 3, SSRC Survey Unit, 1973

Hall J F
Computer Software for Survey Analysis. 
Special Supplement  to SSRC Newsletter 20, October 1973

Hall J F
Computer  Software  for Survey  Analysis  
Update  sheet, special supplement in SSRC Newsletter 24, October 1974

Beverly Rowe, John Hall and Marianne Scheer
​Computer  Software  for Survey  Analysis 
Special supplement in SSRC Newsletter 29, November 1975.  Revised consolidation of  1973 and 1974 lists.
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Other publications by SSRC Survey Unit

Donald Monk
The use of survey research organizations and the costing of survey research.
Occasional Papers in Survey Research No 1, SSRC Survey Unit, 1973
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Donald Monk and G E Levens
The use of survey research organisations and the costing of survey research
Occasional Papers in Survey Research No 2, SSRC Survey Unit, 1976: revised from 1973 edition 

Alan Marsh
Postgraduate students' assessment of their social science training: a survey of the attitudes of SSRC-supported students towards their post-graduate training.
1972

Hall J F and Perry N H
 Aspects of leisure in two industrial cities : first results from the Life Satisfaction surveys carried out in Sunderland and Stoke-on-Trent, November 1973 to February 1974, compared with data from a national urban sample
Occasional Paper No 5, SSRC Survey Unit, 1974

Norman Perry
The organisation of social science research in the United Kingdom
Occasional Papers in Survey Research No 6, SSRC Survey Unit, 1975

Martin Fishbein, Kerry Thomas and James J Jaccard
Voting behaviour in Britain : an attitudinal analysis
Occasional Papers in Survey Research No 7, SSRC Survey Unit, 1976

Cathie Marsh
Guidelines on commissioning an interview survey from a research company
(Pamphlet) SSRC Survey Unit, 1976 downloadable on this site