Introduction to the British Social Attitudes Survey

R and SPSS Practical Exercises

Introduction

This repository contains the Quarto source files of the practical exercises for the Introduction to the British Social Attitudes Surveys UKDS Data Skills Module.

The BSA tracks the views and opinions of the public on national issues over time. The BSA questionnaire has core questions that are repeated in most years. These cover different topics such as politics, welfare, poverty, health, education, equalities, and employment alongside various background and demographic questions. It also includes non-core questions (modules) on a number of social, political, economic and moral topics, which are included periodically in the survey.

Direct links to the HTML pages of the exercises on GitHub Pages:

• R version:

  • Basic population estimates with BSA data using R
  • Survey design informed inference with BSA data using R

• SPSS version:

  • Basic population estimates with BSA data using SPSS
  • Survey design informed inference with BSA data using SPSS