SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life surveys
[Page last updated 18 November 2013]
Between 1971 and 1975 Mark Abrams and John Hall of the SSRC Survey Unit, in collaboration with Angus Campbell and colleagues at the Survey Research Center (University of Michigan) conducted a series of surveys to develop valid and reliable subjective social indicators (conditions of, and satisfaction with. a range of life-domains and life as a whole, personal physical and psychological well-being) to set alongside standard economic and statistical indicators of national performance. These surveys were widely (and sometimes uncritically) adopted in surveys by others and pre-date by 40 years the introduction of such measures into major national surveys in the early 21st century, and their adoption by government as measures of national well-being.
Abstracts, data and documentation contains abstracts, summary information (Variables, fieldwork, sampling, facsimile questionnaires, user-manuals, data sets.)
Publications for SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain Surveys
Lists reports and papers available on this site
Archived material from SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life surveys
(Link to SSRC QoL material held at UK Data Archive, Essex University.)
Selected QoL questions were replicated in:
“Trinians” - Opinions and attitudes of senior girls at a public school: (Feb 1973 N=216)
..and also in a later survey at the Polytechnic of North London:
Playground to Politics: A study of teenagers' attitudes (Dec 1981, N=142)
Between 1971 and 1975 Mark Abrams and John Hall of the SSRC Survey Unit, in collaboration with Angus Campbell and colleagues at the Survey Research Center (University of Michigan) conducted a series of surveys to develop valid and reliable subjective social indicators (conditions of, and satisfaction with. a range of life-domains and life as a whole, personal physical and psychological well-being) to set alongside standard economic and statistical indicators of national performance. These surveys were widely (and sometimes uncritically) adopted in surveys by others and pre-date by 40 years the introduction of such measures into major national surveys in the early 21st century, and their adoption by government as measures of national well-being.
Abstracts, data and documentation contains abstracts, summary information (Variables, fieldwork, sampling, facsimile questionnaires, user-manuals, data sets.)
Publications for SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain Surveys
Lists reports and papers available on this site
Archived material from SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life surveys
(Link to SSRC QoL material held at UK Data Archive, Essex University.)
Selected QoL questions were replicated in:
“Trinians” - Opinions and attitudes of senior girls at a public school: (Feb 1973 N=216)
..and also in a later survey at the Polytechnic of North London:
Playground to Politics: A study of teenagers' attitudes (Dec 1981, N=142)