- Title
- Welsh Election Study 1979
- Creators
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Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Balsom, D., Welsh Election Study
Madgwick, P.J., Welsh Election Study
- Subjects
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Employment
Skills
Health
Social Care
Wellbeing
Language
Citizenship
Identity
Economic Development
Education
Environment
Economic Status
Financial Status
Condition
Core
Housing
Political
- Description
- Main Topics:
Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Good and bad points of Conservative and Labour Parties, interest in politics, assessment of each party's handling of various issues, e.g. rising prices/strikes/unemployment. Experience of and importance of unemployment. Knowledge of party policies on nationalisation/tax cuts/trade union power and own position, opinion of position of Britain's economy and future prospects. Perception of differences between the major parties. Attitude to recent changes taking place in areas such as sexual equality, racial equality, censorship, abortion. Attitude to big business and trade unions, degree of involvement in union matters. Relative position of respondent's salary, way in which wages and salaries issue should be handled. Attitude to forms of political protest. Most important aims for the country for the next decade, e.g. economic growth/defence/freedom of speech.
Whether voted at election and for which party, vote in October and February 1974 and June 1970. Party identification. Marks out of ten for parties and leading politicians. Vote in local government election in 1979, opinion of local government services and need for changes.
Class identification and attitude to the class system. A number of questions were asked on Welsh Devolution including vote in the recent Referendum and views on the Welsh language issue.
Background Variables
Newspaper readership, television news viewing, religious affiliation and attendance, national identification, type of school attended and age completed full-time education, qualifications, telephone/vehicle ownership, membership of private medical insurance schemes. Employment status and occupation of respondent and spouse, sex, marital status, age cohort, place of birth, income, accomodation tenure, length of residence in area.
- Publishers
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United Kingdom Data Service
- Contributors
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Economic and Social Research Council
Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
- Type
- Dataset
- Format
- text
- Language
- English
- Relation: Same Collection
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- Relation: Different Collection
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- Coverage: Spatial
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Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)
- Coverage: Start Date
- 15 May 1979
- Coverage: End Date
- 9 September 1979
- Coverage: Rights
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Coverage: Created
- 9 February 2012
- Coverage: Updated
- 6 July 2016