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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

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

Variable Details

Variableissue2
LabelMost important issue - 2
Responses
1 nhs 1063
2 education 707
3 pensions 472
4 spend, other social 1058
5 unemployment 2261
6 taxation 706
7 petrol prices 520
8 inflation 727
9 economy general 1949
10 crime 1725
11 euro, europe 1019
12 transportation 111
13 asylum 619
14 environment 333
15 dishonesty 878
16 constitutional 26
17 international probs 254
18 leadership gen-neg 747
19 pol values-left 49
20 pol values-right 118
21 election outcome 40
22 low turnout, apathy 104
23 immigration 2106
24 terrorism 1457
25 iraq war 650
26 government reform 53
27 housing 815
28 class difference 852
29 bush,usa-negative 431
30 big gov-negative 51
31 loss-manufac ind 309
32 i.d. cards 25
33 aging population 151
34 strikes 34
35 welfare fraud 976
36 consumer debt 760
37 lab leadership-neg 497
38 lab gov-neg 1529
39 racial tension 267
40 national security 118
41 drugs 256
42 agriculture issues 4
43 failure of religious 50
44 nat ident,goals-loss 476
45 family values-lack 180
46 youth 623
47 ukip-neg 3
48 ukip-pos 0
49 school violence 21
50 civil liberties 110
51 morals 102
52 rover crisis 0
53 energy 141
54 scot const 19
55 media 102
56 banks 596
57 mps scandal 35
58 war in afghanistan 143
59 government deficit 338
60 electoral reform 14
61 coalition government-neg 499
62 coalition leadership-neg 77
63 libya 27
64 olympics 4
65 devolved parl england 0
67 news of the world/murdoch-neg 1
70 riots 29
80 miscellaneous 270
98 dk, not sure 1
99 refused 45744
999 na 46215
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLong-Term Trajectories of Crime in the United Kingdom, 1982-2013
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