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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2007

Variable Details

VariablePriScn1
LabelMost important for schools to achieve? Q2 5
Question text And here are some priorities for our schools. Which do you think it is most important for them to achieve? Make sure all children, however able they are, do the best they can. Make sure that parents have a lot of choice about the kind of school their child goes to. Get the number of children who leave school with no qualifications down as low as possible. Make sure that children from poor backgrounds do as well as those from better off backgrounds. PLEASE TICK ONE BOX ONLY
Responses
1 All kids do best 978
2 Choice of school 34
3 No qual. low 74
4 Poor kids do as well 175
8 Can't choose 27
9 Not answered 24
-1 Skip, no self-completion 196
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationScottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2007
UniversePersons aged 18 years and over resident in Scotland, including north of the Great Glen.;Scottish Adults;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. Data are collected annually.
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