Society

Ipsos polling for halifax security forum reveals just 42% believe china will have a positive impact, down 11 points since last year.

Most adults across 15 countries don’t expect a vaccine to be available any sooner than mid-2021; only half would get vaccinated within three months of its availability.

This month’s round-up of research and analysis from Ipsos around the world presents new papers on our learnings from the pandemic, trust in the media, brands and advertising and automotive quality. Explore our new global survey on happiness, the latest ranking of 50 nations’ international image, and much more.

Better city, better life! New survey results for European Commission report on the quality of life in European cities.

More than 6 in 10 globally say things in their country are on the wrong track as Coronavirus continues to be the world’s greatest worry.

Ipsos research finds that almost twice as many global citizens are “weak” than “solid” in their sense of social cohesion.

Around the world, 79% of people believe that investment in infrastructure will create new jobs and boost their countries’ economies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic according to a recent survey.

The United Kingdom moves to second place, its best performance ever recorded, with reputational gains on the Governance, Culture, People, and Tourism Indices. Canada ranks in third place for a second consecutive year. There are major ranking slips in the top-10 with France’s ranking declining by three positions from second place in 2019 to fifth place in 2020, and the United States’ ranking dropping from sixth place last year to 10th this year.

Political opinion polls come under great scrutiny in the run-up to elections and their reputation can swing between criticism and praise in the wake of results. But, if you want to make some sense of the state of opinion at any moment in time, you absolutely need polls. This paper puts polling under the researcher’s spotlight.