The Ipsos Almanac

Ipsos end of year review covering the main political issues of 2006. This was the year when the government struggled on with public service reform, but hit new lows in terms of public confidence in the NHS (despite levels of satisfaction with actual treatments remaining higher than before). It was…

The IDeA and Ipsos's latest research on the links between leadership and management style and performance in Local Government

Ipsos uses all major survey methods across our huge range of work. This runs from face-to-face in-home interviewer surveys using probability samples, through telephone surveys using quotas that are designed to reflect the population, to online studies using panels of people who have signed up to…

The report examine different approaches to engagement being used and assesses what works and under which circumstances and to identify transferable features, or ingredients, that can be applied to different policy developments/areas.

Read our latest work for the Youth Justice board. We have conducted Youth Surveys for the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) since 1999. The overall aim of the research has been to examine the experiences of crime, of both offenders and victims, among 11- 16-year-old young people in…

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Public Interest in Poverty Issues programme (PiPi) aims to secure and strengthen public support for alleviating poverty in the UK. This research project informed the programme through two stages of qualitative research. The first involved an evaluation of…

This report brings together thirty years of research among this key audience and covers MPs' attitudes towards business and the political and economic landscape in which business operates. Specifically: The issues MPs are contacted about most frequently by individuals MPs' economic…

This report examines the data collected in the 2003/4 Best Value Performance Indicator surveys (BVPIs) for the impact of place on perceptions of transport services, drawing on 2001 Census and other secondary sources to provide context.

There is increasing interest in comparing the different approaches to balancing economic and social welfare priorities across countries in Europe and beyond. This has led to new models that have attempted to explain and classify the current government's approach in Britain. For example, Will…

Local government plays a huge role in people's lives and, according to the Treasury, is the most efficient part of the public sector making 1632.6m a day in savings. So why is it that public satisfaction of council services is improving, but the public perception of councils is not?