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Ipsos, one of the world's leading market research companies, has released the 2024 Equalities Index, a 30-country looking at attitudes towards equality and discrimination.

Poverty and unemployment seen as root cause of crime by the majority of New Zealanders.

Climate change: as the world heats up, willingness to act is falling. Ipsos releases a 33-country study as part of Earth Day, looking at how attitudes to climate change are changing.

Over half of New Zealanders feel that the country is in decline and that our society is broken. Ipsos New Zealand's inaugural participation in a global study on populism reveals a pervasive sense of societal and economic decline among New Zealanders.

The new edition of Ipsos’ Global Happiness report finds there’s been a slight dip in happiness year-on-year as economic and political clouds loom overhead, but New Zealanders remain significantly happier than the global average.

Two-thirds of New Zealanders expect to see severe climate impacts in their area over the next 10 years, according to a November 2023 Ipsos poll.

Despite the change in government, most New Zealanders are predicting 2024 will bring higher interest rates, unemployment, inflation and global temperatures.

Welcome to the inaugural Ipsos Equalities Index, which is the first time that we’ve examined global attitudes towards these issues in this way. This study expands upon work we've done elsewhere, covering issues such as gender equality, poverty, LGBT+ issues and more.

June 2023: In the Ipsos Pride 2023 global survey, we find that New Zealanders show strong support for protection from discrimination for transgender people, but we are more divided on other transgender discrimination issues.

This Ipsos Global Advisor survey also shows very positive attitudes in New Zealand towards same sex couples as parents, although we should aim for much greater acceptance.