Survey Question Bank


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Welcome to the Survey Question Bank (SQB), co-ordinated by the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.



Who is the SQB for?

  • social and economic researchers, wishing to find survey questions and search questionnaires as part of their ‘pre-analysis’
  • commissioners/managers of social research, working in all sectors, interested in seeing whether and how questions on their topics of interest have been framed in other surveys
  • teachers of survey methods (see Learning and teaching zone) with a specific interest in questionnaire design/methodology (see Data collection zone)
  • Ph.D./postgraduate students

What information does the SQB hold?

The SQB provides access to the questionnaires, in PDF format, from a range of major UK and cross-national social surveys conducted, for the most part, since the mid-1990s. These questionnaires - which are fully searchable - are displayed in their original context, allowing users to better understand the context in which a particular question was asked.

The service has also recently released a survey question search which provides access to over 200,000 questions from more than 50 survey series.

In addition, the SQB writes and commissions methods fact sheets and topic overviews - vital to making sense of the questions and the data created from them.

The SQB does not hold/make available survey data or results - instead try Locate variables.

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New developments for Survey Question Bank
The Survey Question Bank is delighted to receive an extension in ESRC funding to the end of September 2012, which will allow it to develop some key features before becoming integrated with the ESDS. Read more.