Ethics in business - Attitudes of the British public

Public Sector

Six in ten (58%) people believe business behaves ethically, a third do not.

 
Each year the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE) asks Ipsos to survey the British public as to their attitudes to business and whether they believe business behaves ethically. In 2011, 58% of the public said they believe business behaves ethically; this is an 11 percentage point increase from when the survey was first run in 2003 (47%).  The public were also asked which issues they think need to be addressed by business; the most common answer was that executive pay needs to be addressed (selected by 36% from a list of 14 items). Download the report Download the tables

Notes to Editors

  • A nationally representative quota sample of 1,001 British adults aged 16+ was interviewed throughout Great Britain using the Ipsos Capibus across 156 sampling points. Interviewing was conducted by CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing), face-to-face in respondents' homes between 19 and 25 August 2011.
  • Please contact K Bradshaw or Jenny Dawkins.

More insights about Public Sector

New Services