How firm are the foundations? Public attitudes to the union in 2007

Scotland and the Union 1707-2007

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 210-227

  Curtice, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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9. These data comprise the responses from the first 1,300 people interviewed by the survey. While there will be small differences between the results reported here and those reported from the final version of the data set, they are unlikely to be sufficiently large to overturn any of the conclusions reached here.
10. Some of the questions included in the SSA series were previously asked on Scottish Election Study surveys that comprise part of the British Election Study series. W. Miller, The End of British Politics? Scots and English Political Behaviour in the Seventies (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981);
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