The 1968/69 survey questionnaires

All of the survey questionnaires from the Townsend ‘Poverty in the UK 1968/69 survey that had been archived, 2,516 questionnaires in total, can be accessed below.

The questionnaire came in the form of a forty page, paper-based, booklet and the field worker conducting the survey could make hand-written notes throughout. These marginal notes amplified, justified, and explained their decisions on the coding of the answers and provided additional information. In addition, at the end of the questionnaire, on pages 39 and 39a, there were two open ended questions in which the field worker had to write in the interviewees views on how they would describe poverty and what they thought could be done about it. There was also a space on page 39a for the field worker to write in any additional comments on the survey as a whole.

Examples of the types of notes made can be found in Marginal notes on the questionnaires.

In total, 135 field workers were involved with interviews taking place in all regions of England, and in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The questionnaire booklets were scanned to pdfs as part of the Paradata research project. This was undertaken in three phases. In the pilot phase, 73 questionnaires with hand-written notes in the main questionnaire (p1 to 38), as well as the required notes on p 39 and 39a, were chosen and all the pages of the questionnaire were digitised from cover to cover. In phase 2, all the remaining 594 questionnaires with hand-written notes on various pages of the questionnaire (in addition to p39/39a) were identified and the cover and all pages with hand-written notes were digitised. For phase 3, the cover and p39/39a of all 1,849 remaining questionnaires were digitised. This means that answers to the open question about causes of poverty (on p39/39a) have been captured for all the archived survey questionnaires.

The file name of each questionnaire is the questionnaire booklet serial number. The first digit of this number comes from the geographical region in which the survey was conducted and the next two digits from the area within that region. The remaining four digits are unique to that survey questionnaire.  The document 'Poverty in the UK sampling areas and interviewers' gives the numbers allocated to each of the regions and sub-regions and can be downloaded here.  The survey sampling design included additional interviews in Salford East (files starting with 6-29, 6-35, 6-36A, 6-36), Glasgow Shettleston (9-43,9-47, 9-49, 9-50) and Belfast (X-49, X50, X-52).

Peter Townsend conducted one interview himself and that survey booklet (X-51-3293) can be found here.

Unfortunately, around 1,000 of the original completed questionnaires had not been archived and cannot be traced.

Searching the questionnaires

The questionnaires are listed by their file name, in numerical order.

In the search box below, by clicking on the downward arrow for region/sub-region, you get a drop down menu allowing you to search by region. When a region is selected you get a further box giving a drop down menu of sub-regions used within that region.

'Annotated' enables you to search by those with notes on various pages throughout the questionnaire (that is those from the pilot phase and phase 2) and those without annotations in the main questionnaire and handwritten notes only on p39/39a (that is phase 3). 'Phase' allows you to distinguish between the 'pilot phase' where all pages were scanned, 'phase 2' where only pages with notes were scanned, and phase 3.

You can also search by the field worker who conducted the interviews.  On the survey questionnaires, the format of the name varies (initials and surname, first name and surname etc). For the fieldworker search, we have chosen one version of each fieldworkers name.  You can find this in the column labelled ‘Interviewer name for website search’ in a document called 'Poverty in the UK field interviewer list' which can be downloaded here.  This list also gives the areas which each fieldworker covered.

You can download a list of the survey questionnaire booklets covered in the pilot phase here; those covered in phase 2 here; and those covered in phase 3 here. These lists give for each pdf the study ID number, the region and sub-region, the field interviewer's name (in the form for the website search) and whether the questionnaire is annotated.

 

Townsend archive questionnaires

Displaying 121 - 150 of 2516
Questionnaire 1-03-1443
Attachment Size
1-03-1443.pdf 4.04 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1443
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1453
Attachment Size
1-03-1453.pdf 4.08 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1453
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1463
Attachment Size
1-03-1463.pdf 4.06 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1463
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1464
Attachment Size
1-03-1464.pdf 79.62 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1464
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Field Worker:
P Collier
Annotated:
Yes
Phase:
pilot phase
Questionnaire 1-03-1484
Attachment Size
1-03-1484.pdf 4.12 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1484
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1494
Attachment Size
1-03-1494.pdf 5.76 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1494
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1534
Attachment Size
1-03-1534.pdf 4.08 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1534
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1544
Attachment Size
1-03-1544.pdf 4.62 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1544
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1554
Attachment Size
1-03-1554.pdf 5.96 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1554
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1564
Attachment Size
1-03-1564.pdf 4.22 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1564
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1594
Attachment Size
1-03-1594.pdf 4.04 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1594
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1604
Attachment Size
1-03-1604.pdf 10.39 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1604
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Field Worker:
Peter Collier
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1615
Attachment Size
1-03-1615.pdf 4.6 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1615
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1625
Attachment Size
1-03-1625.pdf 4.04 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1625
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1635
Attachment Size
1-03-1635.pdf 4.12 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1635
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1655
Attachment Size
1-03-1655.pdf 4.04 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1655
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-03-1665
Attachment Size
1-03-1665.pdf 7.87 MB
Study ID:
1-03-1665
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Lewisham North
Field Worker:
R G Moore
Annotated:
Yes
Phase:
phase 2
Questionnaire 1-04-1011
Attachment Size
1-04-1011.pdf 3.91 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1011
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1021
Attachment Size
1-04-1021.pdf 3.73 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1021
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1031
Attachment Size
1-04-1031.pdf 3.79 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1031
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1041
Attachment Size
1-04-1041.pdf 3.68 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1041
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1051
Attachment Size
1-04-1051.pdf 3.66 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1051
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1272
Attachment Size
1-04-1272.pdf 3.74 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1272
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1282
Attachment Size
1-04-1282.pdf 3.6 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1282
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1292
Attachment Size
1-04-1292.pdf 11.82 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1292
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Field Worker:
Hugh M Kerr
Annotated:
Yes
Phase:
phase 2
Questionnaire 1-04-1413
Attachment Size
1-04-1413.pdf 5.33 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1413
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1423
Attachment Size
1-04-1423.pdf 19.43 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1423
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Field Worker:
John Beacon
Annotated:
Yes
Phase:
phase 2
Questionnaire 1-04-1433
Attachment Size
1-04-1433.pdf 4.13 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1433
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1564
Attachment Size
1-04-1564.pdf 3.7 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1564
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3
Questionnaire 1-04-1574
Attachment Size
1-04-1574.pdf 3.72 MB
Study ID:
1-04-1574
Region:
Greater London
Sub region:
Hornchurch
Annotated:
No
Phase:
phase 3

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