Welcome to Ipsos Update – our monthly selection of research and thinking from Ipsos teams around the world. June’s edition features new papers on shopper behaviour and the value of reputation, as well as global surveys on socialism, summer holiday plans and the Royal Family.
A CIGI-Ipsos global survey reports that majority (52%) says they’re more concerned about online privacy than they were a year ago. Around six in ten feel that social media (63%) and search engines (57%) have too much power.
Every month across the year, our What Worries the World survey series has asked an online sample of over 18,000 citizens in 26 core countries about the biggest worries for their nation, presenting them with a list of 17 concerns ranging from crime and violence to childhood obesity.
Welcome to Ipsos Update – our monthly selection of research and thinking from Ipsos teams around the world. May’s edition includes new papers on viewability and modern partisanship, as well as global studies on ‘natural’ food, self-driving cars and societal divides.
Half of the people around the world think that at present, socialist ideals are of great value for societal progress. Despite this, half of the people also agree that socialism is a system of political oppression, mass surveillance and state terror. Globally, eight in ten people think that the rich should be taxed more to support the poor. Around the world nine in ten people believe that education should be free of charge and that free healthcare is a human right. Nearly seven in ten people globally believe that every resident should have the right to unconditional basic income.
The average global economic assessment of national economies surveyed in 28 countries is remains unchanged this wave with 47% of global citizens rating their national economies as ‘good’.
