Publisher's Synopsis
Britain is, on the whole, a well-documented nation. We know or are able to find out a great deal about our characteristics as a society ? who we are and what we do. But we know much less about our character ? what we think and feel about our world and ourselves. Very little systematic material is publicly available on the nation?s values, whether or how they have been changing and the extent to which different sections of the population vary in their attitudes and beliefs. - - British Social Attitudes compiles, describes and comments upon a range of current social attitudes. The information is compiled from around 3,500 interviews carried out by the National Centre for Social Research (formerly SCPR) among a nationwide sample in an annual series of surveys. The series seeks to chart changes in British social values during the 1980s and 1990s in relation to other changes in society and is core-funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. - - A full report is published each year. The 16th Report summarises and interprets data from the most recent survey in the series as well as making comparisons with findings from previous surveys. We focus particularly on the extent to which the attitudes of the British public mirror the politics of the new government. The dataset is publicly available through the Data Archive so that others can explore the results further within their spheres of interest.
