The British Social Attitudes survey (BSA) is the leading survey in Britain for assessing trends and changes in public opinions on social and political measures. Over the past four decades, the survey has become the main source of statistics on key national issues, which makes the survey valuable for policy making, researchers, charity and media.The British Social Attitudes Open Teaching Dataset: Health Care and Equalities, 2021, is a subsample from the original British Social Attitudes Survey 2021 (available from the UK Data Archive under SN 9072). This open-access teaching dataset has been adapted for teaching and learning with a reduced number of variables, covering attitudes towards health care and equality. Further information is available in the study documentation, which includes a dataset user guide. The main topics covered are:Views about health care, equality, and sexual relationships.Interest in politics and party identification.Government spending.Attitude scales: left-right ideology, libertarian and authoritarian and welfarism scales.Sociodemographic measures.