Proposed abstinence during Lent; attitudes to the British Government’s policy of allowing Jews to settle in Palestine (2482)

Type of Data: Proposed abstinence during Lent; attitudes to the British Government’s policy of allowing Jews to settle in Palestine (2482)

Faith Community: Christianity, Judaism

Date: 1939, February

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 1523

Population: Adults aged 21 and over

Keywords: Abstinence, anti-Semitism, foreign policy, Government, Jews, Lent, Palestine, religious festivals

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: British Institute of Public Opinion. BIPO was established by George Gallup in 1936 to run the British Gallup Poll

Sponsor: News Chronicle

Published Source:

News Chronicle, 8 March 1939

What Britain Thinks: The Technique of Public Opinion Measurement, [London]: News Chronicle, [1939], p. 19

Mildred Strunk, Public Opinion, 1935-1946, ed. Albert Hadley Cantril, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, pp. 385, 415-16

The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain, 1937-1975, ed. George Horace Gallup, 2 vol., New York: Random House, 1976, Vol. 1, pp. 14-15

BRIN ID: 2482

Remarks:

Dataset available at ESDS as SN 2038 and SN 3331 and at the Roper Center as GBBIPO39-055

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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