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1) yougov%20deposit.dta

File in Stata 13 format.

Contains survey records for 1869 individuals in the UK, as sampled in a YouGov survey commissioned by the authors. The survey is a nationally representative sample.

Survey data has been appended to 2011 ward-level census data from ONS, based on respondent postal code (these are not available for distribution).

Variable descriptions appear next variables. Survey variables are first, followed by census variables (beginning with Local Authority code).

Variables beginning "c_" refer to the first question about contact with those of different ethnic background, those beginning "r_" to comfort with those of different ethnic background

A number of recodes and interactions have been specified. Those ending in “2” involve squared terms of the discomfort threshold (ward or GB-wide) variable. 

2) finalQs.txt

Text file of question wording, including randomisation technique (if applicable)

3) YG-Archive-ESRC-Demos-Birkbeck-results-300713.pdf

Tabular data results file.

Results may also be found at: http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/kf5d231qce/YG-Archive-ESRC-Demos-Birkbeck-results-300713.pdf

Publications

Kaufmann, Eric, and Gareth Harris, 'White flight' or Positive Contact?: local diversity and attitudes to immigration in Britain,' Comparative Political Studies, accepted January 2015, forthcoming

Kaufmann, Eric, and Gareth Harris, ' ‘White flight’?: Opposition to Diversity and Mobility Decisions in Britain, 1991?2012,' paper presented at Population Association of America, Boston, May 1-3, 2014 Open access at: http://paa2014.princeton.edu/papers/140166

" ‘It’s the Demography, Stupid’: Ethnic Change and Opposition to Immigration," Political Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 267-76, November 2014

‘Changing Places: The white British Response to Ethnic Change’, Demos report, 29 September 2014 (with Gareth Harris). Open access at: http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/changingplaces

‘White Exit and How to Stop It,’ in D. Goodhart (eds), Mapping Integration (Demos, 2014), pp. 71-78. Open access at: http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/mappingintegration

‘White Flight in England?’, contribution to Policy Exchange report on British Minority dynamics, 6 May 2014, p. 32. Open access: http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/a%20portrait%20of%20modern%20britain.pdf

‘White Flight: the Emerging Story’, Understanding Society Findings, www.understandingsociety.ac.uk, February 2014 Open access: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/case-studies/white-flight-the-emerging-story

‘Understanding White Flight,’ Demos Quarterly, 17 January 2014. Open access: http://quarterly.demos.co.uk/article/issue-1/understanding-white-flight/

‘White Flight in England?: White attraction rather than repulsion seems to be the story,’ LSE British Politics and Policy blog, December 17, 2013, also reprint at Huffington Post, 23 December. Open access: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/white-flight-in-england/