>In Britain there is an annual publication called 'Social Attitudes'
>which polls peoples attitudes on a variety of issues and breaks down
>their responses according to all the usual typologies of sex, class, age
>etc.
>
>Is there anything similar in the US, and/or Europe, and if so, does
>anyone have the publication details?
Nothing published with that prominence. We do have the more-or-less annual General Social Survey. Its raw data is published on the web <http://gort.ucsd.edu/gss/>, but it ain't easy to use.
Doug