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The government's got a problem; not the Government, the government
MORI Chairman Bob Worcester frets about the conflict between spin and veracity, with a word for the current review into Government information.
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Public Opinion On EMU Entry
A majority of people in Britain would vote against joining the single European currency if there were a referendum, according to the research by MORI for citigroup. The results show the share in favour of EMU entry stands at 27% (it was 29% in May), and those against stands at 59% (from 58% in May). The balance against EMU entry rose to 32% from 28%, and is the highest since October 2001. A further 14% say they do not know how they would vote.
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Grey Power / The Grey Ahead
In recent years, many people have begun to notice that the UK's population profile is shifting towards those of a more advanced age .Commentary by Andy Martin
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MORI Financial Services Mood of the Nation Index
Ten years, ago, in April 1993, MORI began combining monthly measurements of general pessimism about the future state of the national economy, fear of redundancy among those in work and the level of unemployment, to calculate what we initially called the MORI Misery Index. After having a little fun discovering that (inevitably) the Scots were more miserable than the rest of us, it was eventually rechristened under its current name of the MORI Financial Services Mood of the Nation index. Still indexed on the findings of the first survey, April 1993=100 (with an index higher than 100 meaning that the public is less pessimistic than in 1993 and lower than 100 more pessimistic), it charts a fascinating monthly picture of the peaks and troughs of the public mood over the last decade.
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Trust And Mistrust At Work
Employees' trust in upward communication has risen dramatically in the past decade, according to MORI's latest research, presented at the Communicators in Business conference in May. The survey pinpoints the most and least trusted information channels, enabling internal communicators to fine-tune their communications strategies.
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Security Fears Over Online Banking
Security fears are holding back six million people in Britain from banking online, according to a major study by MORI. The research, commissioned by RSA Security, shows 28% of British people see security as the number one barrier to banking online. But mobile phones could be the key to unlocking the market.
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Does Ebusiness Mean Good Business?
European companies leading in the take-up of ebusiness are more likely to engage on social and environmental issues, according to a MORI survey. The research was commissioned by Forum for the Future for the European Commission-funded project Digital Europe. For the survey, Corporate Social Responsibility practitioners and IT practitioners in large UK and Northern European companies were interviewed. This was to evaluate their ebusiness practices and performance in sustainable development, and then used statistical techniques such as factor analysis and cluster analysis to identify a link between the two.
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EMU Entry Off the Pre-Election Agenda
A majority of people in Britain would vote against joining the single European currency if there were a referendum, according to new research from MORI. As part of regular research for citigroup*, the results show the share in favour of EMU entry edged down to 29% from 30% in March, with a rise in the share against to 58% from 56%. Thus, the balance against EMU entry rose to 28% from 26%, and is the highest since October 2001.
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Blair Cannot Count On Baghdad Bounce
The British participation in the American-led invasion of Iraq was, at the moment it began, possibly the least popular war with the British public of any in which British troops have joined since opinion polls first began. But no sooner had the first shots been fired than public opinion started to swing in favour of British involvement in the war and kept on going. Within a couple of days the polls were finding solid majorities in favour where previously they had found solid majorities against, a movement which even reports of civilian casualties, "friendly-fire" incidents and later widespread looting and lawlessness apparently did nothing to check. The scale of the change of opinions makes it one of the most dramatic turnarounds that MORI has measured.