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Department of Health and Social Security: AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)...
Catalogue reference: BN 97
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BN 97
The AIDS Advertising Education survey was commissioned to evaluate the effectiveness of AIDS advertising by Department of Health and Social Security. The study gathered data from a representative sample of adults aged 18-64, homosexuals who visit...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BN 97
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security: AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Advertising Evaluation Dataset
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Date (When the record was created)
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1986-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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The AIDS Advertising Education survey was commissioned to evaluate the effectiveness of AIDS advertising by Department of Health and Social Security. The study gathered data from a representative sample of adults aged 18-64, homosexuals who visit gay pubs and clubs as well as young people aged 13-17. Face to face interviews using the main questionnaire were carried out in gay pubs and nightclubs. Other questionnaires were filled out by interviewees by themselves. Data includes awareness of AIDS, changes in attitudes towards AIDS and related subjects, and changes in sexual behaviour.
The datasets in this series are available to download. Links to individual datasets can be found at piece level.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Details of the original hardware, operating system, application software, and user interface are not known.
How data was originally captured and validated: Data was collected by means of interviews.
Logical structure and schema: Information about the file structure of the AIDS Advertising Evaluation dataset is provided in the catalogue of the individual dataset.
Data in the AIDS Advertising Evaluation survey dataset is closed in that once collected the data was archived and was not subsequently overwritten.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
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CRDA/35
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 datasets and documentation
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
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The AIDS Advertising Evaluation dataset is subject to Crown Copyright; copies may be made for private study and research only.
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2010 the United Kingdom National Digital Archive of Datasets
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Sex and gender
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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This dataset was deposited by the Department of Health and Social Security at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Data Archive, University of Essex, before December 1987. In 2000 it was transferred from the ESRC Data Archive to the UK National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) who held the dataset until 2010 when it was transferred to The National Archives (TNA).
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals are expected.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Extent of documentation: 7 documents, Dates of creation of documentation: 1986-1987
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Dataset selected in entirety.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The AIDS Advertising Evaluation survey was principally carried out by the Central Office of Information and the British Market Research Bureau. The latter also gathered the data. The research Initiator was the Central Office of Information and the project was sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Security.
The purpose of AIDS Advertising Evaluation survey was to evaluate the effects of the DHSS AIDS advertising campaign, study the awareness of AIDS as well as changes in attitudes towards AIDS and changes in sexual behaviour during the period 1986-1987.
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
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A copy of the dataset is also held at the Data Archive at the University of Essex where it has been given the Study reference number 2178.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15568/
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