{"id":1834,"date":"2017-07-24T14:02:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2017-07-24T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:02:14","slug":"british-social-attitudes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/data-sets\/british-social-attitudes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"British Social Attitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Inquerito e dados respetivos sobre atitudes sociais no UK<\/span><\/p>\n

British Social Attitudes 1983 onwards
\n\u200bCumulative SPSS file<\/h2>\n

[New page 22 June 2016: last updated 14 Feb 2017] <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cumulative files 1983 onwards<\/span><\/strong>
\nAttempting analyses across waves became increasingly frustrating as I encountered a range of anomalies, incompatibilities and inconsistencies, not to mention universally incomplete and\/or incorrect specifications of measurement levels, missing values and value labels. \u00a0 Accordingly I set myself the \u00a0task of generating a complete cumulative SPSS file containing the data from all waves from 1983 to 2014 (one colleague described this undertaking as Herculean) to provide what will hopefully be a valuable resource for teachers, students and researchers. \u00a0The 2015 wave was added in January 2017.<\/p>\n

Index to UKDS downloads for British Social Attitudes 1983 – 2014<\/a> <\/strong>is an Excel file detailing, for each wave 1983 – 2014, year<\/strong> of survey, link<\/strong> to UKDS, download filename<\/strong>, size<\/strong> of file, number of cases<\/strong>, number of variables<\/strong>, number of variables with non-numeric<\/strong> formats and the new working filename<\/strong> assigned to amended files. The amended *.sav files were sent to Natcen for approval and possible deposit with UKDS, but are now superseded.<\/p>\n

Non-numeric variables in British Social Attitudes<\/a> is a step-by-step account of identifying, in each wave, variables with the same name, but different formats. \u00a0Several of these variables are specified as Strings<\/span> with widths varying from A4<\/span> to A60<\/span>, but some are in fact numbers.\u00a0 Others are dates or times in DATE <\/span>or TIME <\/span> format and one is in COMMA1<\/span>. \u00a0These and other factors prevent merging data from different waves using the SPSS command ADD FILES<\/strong>. \u00a0It\u2019s been quite complex and tedious tracking them all down, but I eventually managed to create cumulative files\u00a0for 1983 \u2013 1994 and 2011 \u2013 2014. \u00a0Merging 1995 – 2005 and 2006 – 2009 was more daunting, as several pro\u200bblems remained to be resolved, but I eventually managed to generate a draft cumulative file for the whole series. \u00a0Much more meticulous and painstaking detective work and editing was required before a beta version was ready for public release.<\/p>\n

\u200b<\/span>Cumulative SPSS file 1983 to 2014<\/span><\/strong>
\nThis task was completed on 20 June 2016 and the pass-word protected “mother” file (0.99 gb) has now been lodged (via Dropbox) with Natcen and UKDS for approval and distribution. \u00a0Custom-written Python code, freely and generously supplied by Jon Peck<\/strong> (retired Senior Software Engineer, IBM-SPSS) has saved me weeks if not months of painstaking needle-in-haystack searches. I also wish to thank Dr Chris Stride (Sheffield) who suggested using the sort facility in Excel to separate variable names with single (positive) missing values from those with paired (positive and equivalent negative) missing values.<\/p>\n

For sure, some mini-glitches may remain, but to find and resolve these would at this stage be completely uneconomic of my time. \u00a0However users are warned that, because metadata for repeated variables are taken from the most recent wave, the value labels for categories of some variables differ from those of earlier waves. \u00a0This is particularly true of ordinal variables for income groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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