Study of Attitudes to Public and Private Welfare, 1984

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The purpose of this study was to analyse public attitudes to welfare provision in the main areas of pensions, health care and education. The principal focus is on ambivalence in support for public and private provision and on explanations that suggest (a) the experience of coercion by officials and professionals; (b) self-interest; (c) party identification as major reasons for this.<br><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions<br> Satisfaction with, experience of, support for and perceptions of public and private education, health care and pension provision. `Satisfaction' derived from post-coded open ended questions; `Experience' from current and previous use and contact with others who use the services; 'Support' from ideas about their importance and willingness to pay for them; 'Perceptions' from a series of questions about the quality of provision, the extent to which the consumer can control various aspects of it and its general social impact.<br> Background Variables<br> Political support, sex, class, occupation, income, family make-up.本摘要版权归英国数据服务中心（UK Data Service）及数据采集版权所有者所有。 本研究旨在分析公众对养老金、医疗保健及教育三大核心领域福利供给的态度。本研究的核心聚焦点在于公众对公共与私人福利供给的支持态度中的矛盾心态，以及据此提出的三大解释维度：其一，官员与专业人士带来的强制体验；其二，自身利益考量；其三，党派身份认同——以上均为造成该矛盾心态的主要原因。 <b>核心主题</b>： 态度与行为类问题 针对公共与私人教育、医疗保健及养老金供给的满意度、使用体验、支持度与认知评价。其中，「满意度」源自经后编码的开放式问题；「使用体验」源自当前及过往的服务使用情况，以及与其他服务使用者的接触经历；「支持度」源自对服务重要性的看法及为其付费的意愿；「认知评价」源自一系列围绕供给质量、消费者对服务各环节的可控程度，以及其整体社会影响的问题。 背景变量 政治倾向、性别、阶层、职业、收入及家庭构成。