Citizenship Survey: what can it tell us?
The Citizenship Survey is a large scale government household survey of
adults in England and Wales. It has run every two years since 2001 and
collects data covering a range of issues including feelings about the local
area, racial and religious prejudice and discrimination, participation,
engagement and volunteering. The survey is widely used by Government and is
becoming increasingly used elsewhere. The value of this survey is increased
further by having a large boost of respondents from minority ethnic groups,
which enables much more detailed analysis of ethnicity and faith than is
usually possible from surveys of this type.
The meeting will begin with a session providing information about the
survey, together with some headline results from the 2001, 2003 and 2005
surveys. An example of some more in-depth analysis that the survey has been
used for will then be described; using modelling to better understand the
drivers of perceptions of racial discrimination. This will be followed by
discussion of how the survey has been used, alongside other research, by the
voluntary sector.
Speakers:
The speakers will be Jenny King (Department for Communities and Local
Government), Dr James Brown (University of Southampton), Kaite Emmerson
(DCLG) and Angela Ellis Paine (Institute for Volunteering Research).
The meeting is open to all and free of charge but pre-registration is
recommended. You can register by email: [log in to unmask] or by phone
(020) 7638 8998. For a map and directions see
http://www.rss.org.uk/about/direction.html
This meeting is on 10 October at 5pm at the Royal Statistical Society (Tea
from 4.30pm).
For more information about the meeting please contact
[log in to unmask] or the meetings sectretary
[log in to unmask] / Tel: 020 7273 8010
Chris Kershaw
Secretary of the RSS Social Statistics Committee
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