{"id":2497,"date":"2015-03-26T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:17:44","slug":"natcens-british-social-attitudes-survey-released-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2015\/03\/26\/natcens-british-social-attitudes-survey-released-today\/","title":{"rendered":"NatCen&#8217;s British Social Attitudes survey released today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey, out today, shows a majority of Labour voters support the benefits cap, but there are indications of support for higher spending on the groups hardest hit by the cuts after a long period of decline. Support for more spending on single parents, children and unemployed people, and on welfare in general, is at last on the increase. <a title=\"Taylor-Gooby profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/t-v\/taylor-gooby-peter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby<\/a> analysed the data and wrote this year&#8217;s chapter on Welfare and Benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Each year <a title=\"NatCen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.natcen.ac.uk\/our-research\/research\/british-social-attitudes\/\" target=\"_blank\">NatCen&#8217;s<\/a> British Social Attitudes survey asks around 3,000 people what it&#8217;s like to live in Britain and what they think about how Britain is run.\u00a0The survey is a critical gauge of public opinion, and is used by the Government, journalists, opinion formers and academics.<\/p>\n<p>Read the report <a title=\"BSA 32\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/?_ga=1.188451051.272173781.1427362592\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contributors to the latest BSA:\u00a0 <a title=\"Rachel Ormston\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/rachel-ormston.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Ormston<\/a>, <a title=\"John Curtice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/john-curtice.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">John Curtice<\/a>, <a title=\"Geoffrey Evans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/geoffrey-evans.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Geoffrey Evans<\/a>, <a title=\"Lindsay Paterson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/lindsay-paterson.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Paterson<\/a>, <a title=\"Eleanor Taylor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/eleanor-taylor.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Eleanor Taylor<\/a>, <a title=\"Peter Taylor-Gooby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/peter-taylor-gooby.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Taylor-Gooby<\/a>, <a title=\"John Appleby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/john-appleby.aspx\">John Appleby<\/a>, <a title=\"Ruth Robertson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/ruth-robertson.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Robertson<\/a>, <a title=\"Ian Simpson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/ian-simpson.aspx\">Ian Simpson<\/a> and <a title=\"Miranda Phillips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk\/contributors\/miranda-phillips.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Miranda Phillips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey, out today, shows a majority of Labour voters support the benefits cap, but there are indications of support for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2015\/03\/26\/natcens-british-social-attitudes-survey-released-today\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139963,872],"tags":[210815,124,139996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}