The study was conducted by Daniel J. Koenig, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. The data was collected through mail questionnaires using a random sample of the electorate.
This was part of a continuing series of surveys which are intended to evaluate satisfactions and dissatisfactions of British Columbia voters. This survey is concerned primarily with British Columbians' views about public policy.
Variables include: separatism versus Confederation vis-a-vis British Columbia and Quebec; property rights within marriage; 4 pt. scale of agreement with various forms of punishment, government operate auto insurance (ICBC), and BC Ferries, federal and provincial election vote recall and vote intention, provincial election vote prediction; 4 pt. scale of agreement on aspects of influence of personal wealth on political processes and decisions, and on politicians and political processes in general; policies of political parties toward various segments of the public; perceived social class; political knowledge; registered municipal voter; municipal political awareness; evaluation of performance of former NDP and present Social Credit governments.
Demographic variables include: sex, age, marital status, no. in household, relationship to head of household, no. children living at home, education, occupation, gross family income, organizational membership, place of residence.
The codebook for this dataset is available through the UBC Library catalogue, with call number JL421.K645 Mar. 1977.
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