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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2012

Variable Details

VariablePolSer
LabelProblem e.g. young people causing trouble: how confident police would take seriously?
Question text Imagine there was an on-going problem in your local area, such as young people causing trouble in the evenings, and you contacted your local police to discuss this problem. How confident are you that the police would take seriously what you had to say?
Responses
1 Very confident 233
2 Fairly confident 635
3 Not very confident 255
4 Not at all confident 83
8 Don't know 21
9 Refusal 2
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationScottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2012
Interviewer InstructionsCARD F7
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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