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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

ONS Omnibus Survey, August 2005

Variable Details

VariableSpec16
LabelPlease specify other ways the gov should be contributing to reducing poverty in developing countries
Responses
Food aid 1
If they were to stop throwing money at them and educate them in methods of improving their financial plight 1
Make the countries themselves more responsible 1
National govt have to be fair and just to their own society 1
No interest at all. Does not wish to answer any questions on poverty. 1
Peoples charter that we should sign up to. 1
Promotion of Birth Control 1
Sort out governments of the poverty striken countries 1
being more effective in removing or influencing dictatorial regiemes 1
believe their own governments are corrupt, so money is wasted. believe and self help 1
birth control 1
educate the populations how to handle their own lives, and their own finances, not just keep giving them money so they have more children 1
educate them 1
government should look after their own before worrying about other countries 1
providing a more direct involvement 1
send equipment not money 1
send people to help them do things for themselves 1
should give food 1
sort this country out first 1
stop the population growth 1
taking over the dev counrty completely colonial 1
the governemtn should be more concerned with where the aid is ending up and not put into corrupy govts 1
to make sure it is given to the coiuntries and used 1
we can see whats happened in iraq and yet he had go to go. so why didn't we take him out by direct action against him, likewise Mugabe. 1
we give enough because these other governments are corrupt and the leaders are lining their own pockets 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationONS Omnibus Survey, August 2005
Interviewer InstructionsPlease specify other. Remember to recode into M236_16, 1 to 6 where possible.
UniverseAdults, aged 16 or over, living in private households in Great Britain.;Adults;Households;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study, monthly (up to year 2000), eight cycles per year thereafter.
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