National identity / References and acknowledgements

References

Cohen, R. (1994), Frontiers of Identity: the British and Others, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Ignatieff, M. (1995), Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Tilley, J., Exley, S. and Heath, A. (2004), ‘Dimensions of British Identity’, in Park, A., Curtice, J., Thomson, K., Bromley, C. and Phillips, M. (eds.), British Social Attitudes: the 21st Report, London: Sage 

Young, P. (2014), A matter of pride: NatCen Social Research, available at: www.natcen.ac.uk/blog/a-matter-of-pride 

Acknowledgements

NatCen Social Research would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council (grant number ES/L002795/1) for funding the questions reported in this chapter. The views expressed here are those of the authors alone.

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  1. To obtain each score we added up (summed) the values of the respective variables and then divided the resulting number by the number of questions, to produce a scale from 1 to 5.
  2. Caution should be taken when comparing the 1995 results with those for subsequent years as the construction of the national identity variable in that year was slightly different to the formulation used in 2003 and 2013. Specifically, it did not include “being Christian” but did include “feeling British”. 
  3. The scaled variable was obtained by adding up (summing) the values of the six questions for each respondent, having first reversed the order of the second and fourth questions in Table 4.6 so that for each question agreement indicated an anti-immigration position. The results were divided by 6 to obtain a scale which varies between 1 and 5.
  4. The summary variable was computed in the same way as is described in note 3 above. 
  5. Intriguingly, those whose conception of national identity is neither civic nor ethnic are even more likely to be internationally minded, supporting the conclusion that it is indeed seeing the ethnic component of Britishness as important that is more closely linked to being British-focused.
  6. The summary variable was computed in the same way as is described in note 3 above.
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    1. To obtain each score we added up (summed) the values of the respective variables and then divided the resulting number by the number of questions, to produce a scale from 1 to 5.
    2. Caution should be taken when comparing the 1995 results with those for subsequent years as the construction of the national identity variable in that year was slightly different to the formulation used in 2003 and 2013. Specifically, it did not include “being Christian” but did include “feeling British”. 
    3. The scaled variable was obtained by adding up (summing) the values of the six questions for each respondent, having first reversed the order of the second and fourth questions in Table 4.6 so that for each question agreement indicated an anti-immigration position. The results were divided by 6 to obtain a scale which varies between 1 and 5.
    4. The summary variable was computed in the same way as is described in note 3 above. 
    5. Intriguingly, those whose conception of national identity is neither civic nor ethnic are even more likely to be internationally minded, supporting the conclusion that it is indeed seeing the ethnic component of Britishness as important that is more closely linked to being British-focused.
    6. The summary variable was computed in the same way as is described in note 3 above.
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