The Values and Character Dispositions of 14-16 Year Olds in the Hodge Hill Constituency

Female students and those with no religion gave generally less positive responses.

Female and Indian students and those whose parents attended university tended towards
the question on society rather than the two questions on Britishness.

Cluster 7

This cluster (see Appendix 8k) consists entirely of the parts of Question 9, asking about
whom respondents trust.

Q9a   I trust my teachers.

Q9b  I trust my neighbours.

Q9c   I trust the police.

Q9d   I trust politicians.

Q9e   I trust society.

The second dimension could be seen as contrasting relative emphasis on trusting people
close to students (teachers and neighbours) with relative emphasis on more distant people.

Muslim and Indian students, those expecting to go to university and those whose parents
attended college gave generally more positive responses. Those with mixed ethnic
background were less positive.

Female students and those of no religion tended towards more distant people and those
expecting to go to university tended towards people who are closer. Differences between
schools accounted for the effect of religion.

Cluster 8

Cluster 8 (see Appendix 8l) consists of two closely related pairs of questions and two
more loosely related items. All relate to a judgment upon the community context in
which students lived their lives.

Q7 I am happy most of the time.

Q8   I generally trust people around me.

Q12 I have pride in Britain

Q6 I am proud of the West Midlands.

Q5 Everyone in my community shares the same standards.

Q2 Life in East Birmingham is fair to me.

The second dimension seems to show a contrast between those with a relative bias
towards a positive personal outlook and those with a relative bias towards positiveness
about the community.

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