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LEISURE 1940-47
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TC 80: 6 boxes
BOX 1: LEISURE 1940-47
80/1/A: Reports
Ts "Memo on a study of leisure" (JC, AH) 2.1.40
Ts "Note on leisure report" (LE) 25.8.40
Ts document "Leisure" 2962/42 by the PEP Physical Planning group 9.9.42
Ms "Supplement to leisure report" 5.10.42
Ts "Extracts from preliminary results of Birmingham leisure and pleasure survey for information PEP" 28.2.47
Ts "Appendix to report on leisure" August 1947 (BB)
Ts comments from leisure survey June 1948
Ts report covering: pubs, dogs (racing), outdoors, sex (lst 12 pages missing)
80/1/B: Cinema counts
Counts of people at cinemas in: Camden Town, Chiswick, Dorking, Hammersmith, Kilburn, Notting Hill Gate. 1947
80/1/C: Football/rugby counts
Counts of people attending football and rugby matches at Aston Villa, Blaina, Bolton, Fulham, Middlesbrough, York. April and May 1947
80/1/D: Magazines and newspapers
Ts list of newspapers and cheaper periodicals titles, price publisher and printers addresses 5.2.? (BW)
Magazine purchase counts Piccadilly Underground 7.11.? (BW)
80/1/E: Miscellaneous
Ts letter from the British Federation of Co-operative Youth. Details of weekend camp in August 24.7.41
Ts programme for "A performance of Eurhythmy" Ealing 2.8.41
Ms informals on hunting, reading and radio 28.4.44 (MM)
Overheards at Bethnal Green 19-20.6.47 (MM)
Typed ex. Daily Mail 3.1.42: Cinema income
BOX 2: LEISURE SURVEY SPRING 1947
80/2/A: Questionnaires, codings and instructions
Ts leisure questionnaire (final) 2 copies. Questions on: the likelihood of war; clubs; attitudes to luck; fatalism; God; astrology; betting; pubs; political alliance. Includes biographical information
Ts instructions for questionnaire (3 copies)
Ts coding (2 copies and 1 draft version)
Ts notes on coding leisure survey
Ts table of coding for football pools, dogs and crosswords (4 copies)
Ts analysis sheet for leisure survey
Ms "Method for finding out how many people bet weekly, monthly etc. from results of leisure questionnaire"
80/2/B-E: Questionnaire responses
80/2/F: Ms tabulation of responses
80/2/G: Results of survey on favourite pub drink: (see also TC 85: Drinking Habits)
Ts results of survey
Ms tabulation of responses
80/2/H: Ts table of coding for drinking in pubs vs clubs
80/2/I: Ms tabulations of coding of relation between drinking and newspaper reading
BOX 3: LEISURE SURVEY SPRING 1947 (continued...)
80/3/A-C: Questionnaire responses
80/3/D: Analysis sheets
Ms notes on sorting order included
80/3/E : Analysis sheets
BOX 4: LEISURE SURVEY 9/2 (1948)
80/4/A: Questionnaires, coding and instructions
Ts 1st draft of leisure questionnaire 9/2
Ts 2nd draft leisure questionnaire 9/2 24.8.48 (2 copies)
Ts 2nd draft of questionnaire by BE (questions 11-19 only) (2 copies)
Ts draft of questionnaire 26.8.48
Ts final draft 4.9.48
Ts draft code list
Ts code list September 1948 (3 copies-1 with lst 2 pages missing)
Ts instructions to Investigators August-September 1948
80/4/B-C: Questionnaire responses September 1948
Questions and answers on: sporting activity and spectatorship; sporting standards; gambling on sport; games on Sunday; national sport; perceived attitudes of foreigners to Britain; world affairs-opinions of America, Russia, United Nations. Includes biographical information
80/4/D: Leisure survey 9/2 analysis sheets: October 1948
BOX 5: LEISURE SURVEY 9/3
80/5/A: Questionnaire and coding
Ts code list
Ts/ms questionnaire responses November 1948. Questions on: leisure activity; cinema/theatre/music hall attendance; reading; working; clubs and societies; expenditure: house-keeping money, drinking, smoking, betting, clothes. Includes biographical information
80/5/B: Questionnaire responses: November 1948
80/5/C: Analysis sheets: December 1948
Ms note on limitation of tables
80/5/D: Analysis sheets: December 1948
80/5/E: Analysis sheets
Fulham only
BOX 6: LEISURE SURVEY III
80/6/A: Questionnaires, coding and instructions
Ts coding for Leisure III survey (2 copies)
Ts Leisure III questionnaire, lst pilot March 1948 (2 copies)
Ts Leisure III questionnaire, 2nd pilot and final March 1948 (2 copies)
Ms note and sample for further questionnaire on leisure basis
Ts table of Leisure III quota in Dagenham (DH)
Ts instructions 25.3.48 (MLY) (2 copies)
Ms note additional questions asked in Middlesbrough and Aston
Ts copy of questionnaire. Questions on: The Marshall Plan; smoking; newspaper readership; cinema attendance; pools; alcohol; pubs; political alliance. Includes biographical information