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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Long-Term Trajectories of Crime in the United Kingdom, 1982-2013

Variable Details

Variableissue1
LabelMost important issue - 1
Responses
1 nhs 3653
2 education 1331
3 pensions 1129
4 spend, other social 1696
5 unemployment 4619
6 taxation 1157
7 petrol prices 956
8 inflation 1551
9 economy general 25067
10 crime 7532
11 euro, europe 3146
12 transportation 248
13 asylum 1566
14 environment 2136
15 dishonesty 2429
16 constitutional 35
17 international probs 638
18 leadership gen-neg 1174
19 pol values-left 107
20 pol values-right 369
21 election outcome 130
22 low turnout, apathy 640
23 immigration 16047
24 terrorism 8563
25 iraq war 3369
26 government reform 107
27 housing 1567
28 class difference 1545
29 bush,usa-negative 586
30 big gov-negative 153
31 loss-manufac ind 518
32 i.d. cards 54
33 aging population 217
34 strikes 61
35 welfare fraud 1086
36 consumer debt 3976
37 lab leadership-neg 2693
38 lab gov-neg 3251
39 racial tension 696
40 national security 327
41 drugs 428
42 agriculture issues 13
43 failure of religious 214
44 nat ident,goals-loss 994
45 family values-lack 353
46 youth 842
47 ukip-neg 4
48 ukip-pos 1
49 school violence 73
50 civil liberties 330
51 morals 311
52 rover crisis 2
53 energy 349
54 scot const 63
55 media 201
56 banks 974
57 mps scandal 54
58 war in afghanistan 284
59 government deficit 1523
60 electoral reform 28
61 coalition government-neg 1759
62 coalition leadership-neg 399
63 libya 44
64 olympics 14
65 devolved parl england 1
67 news of the world/murdoch-neg 6
70 riots 34
80 miscellaneous 2020
98 dk, not sure 3303
99 refused 2050
999 na 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLong-Term Trajectories of Crime in the United Kingdom, 1982-2013
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