This study contains two experimental sets of questions that explore respondents’ views towards residency rights of immigrants. The two experimental sets are a conjoint experiment exploring the impact of various hypothetical immigrant characteristics on preferences and a vignette question that varies the immigrant’s location to either Glasgow or the respondent’s town of residence. Only respondents residing in England were asked these experimental questions. Both experimental sets were asked in the standard CASI module toward the end of the survey.
For the first, the fully-randomised conjoint experiments consist of respondents ranking or rating two hypothetical choices, in this case applicant profiles, to examine which applicants would be granted residency rights based on varying specific characteristics. These characteristics include health condition, number of children in state schools, housing situation, country of origin, employment history and gender. Three comparison questions were made, asking for which of two applicants are preferred to be allowed to remain, with each set then followed by rating on a 1 to 10 scale on the belief that each applicant should be allowed to remain.
The second uses a vignette where respondents were provided with a hypothetical applicant who uses public services, but varies on the location of residence of the applicant based on existing knowledge about where respondents live. The controlling variables for these experiments are as follows.
The controlling variable for the vignette experiment is:
cjitown on record k_indresp_ip (Applicant town of residence)
1 TOWN OF RESIDENCE from ff_post_code
2 Glasgow
The controlling variables for the conjoint experiment are listed in Appendix A, due to their large number.
The variables respondents’ ratings and choices are on record k_indresp_ip:
cjimmig1, cji1app1, cji1app2, cjimmig2, cji2app1, cji2app2, cjimmig3, cji3app1, cji3app2, cjivig
