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.
As the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine continues at speed, the world faces many more questions than answers – not only about when we might have a vaccine, but who will get it first, how will they get it and are they willing to have it? And how far will it take us on the journey back to ‘normal’…?
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.
