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Most Britons feel they can make it in life - but little change over past decade
A newly released Ipsos survey reveals that there has been little change in public attitudes to life chances over the past decade. While most people in Britain feel they can make it in life, a significant minority still consider their life chances to be limited.
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Half of Britons would like to bring about their own death when they felt it's time
A newly released Ipsos survey finds that more Britons want to be able to die at a time of their choosing than not: 47% agree that "I would like to be able to bring about my own death peacefully when I feel it's time".
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The reputation of local government
This report presents the findings of a literature review of research into public attitudes towards local government in England. This was conducted by the Ipsos Social Research Institute on behalf of the Local Government
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London Mayor Poll for UNISON - 23-24 April 2008
Ipsos's latest poll on the London Mayoral election puts Ken Livingstone ahead of Boris Johnson by 52% to 48%, among those registered to vote who say they are "absolutely certain to vote", but the gap is not big enough to be statistically significant.
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London Mayor Poll for UNISON - 1-7 April 2008
Ipsos's poll on the London Mayoral election, carried out 1-7 April 2008 for the trade union UNISON, shows the first preference results are 41% for Ken Livingstone, 40% for Boris Johnson, 14% for Brian Paddick, and 5% for Sian Berry among those saying they are "certain to vote" (48%).
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London Mayoral Election
Ipsos's poll for the Labour Party shows Labour candidate Ken Livingstone on 48% and Conservative candidate Boris Johnson on 46% among Londoners who are certain to vote in the upcoming Mayoral elections.
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London Mayor Poll - 8-12 February 2008
Ipsos's poll for the Labour Party shows Labour candidate Ken Livingstone on 48% and Conservative candidate Boris Johnson on 46% among Londoners who are certain to vote and in the upcoming Mayoral elections.
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Most Trusted Profession
Every year I'm fascinated to see just how stable public trust is in the occupations in the public's eye. Yet to see the media listen to the commentators on radio and television, you'd think that trust in institutions is declining sharply. To listen to them, you'd think that nobody trusts anybody anymore. They are wrong: there has been no general decline in trust over the past two decades, as shown over nearly a quarter of a century, by our surveys, initially done in 1983 for the Sunday Times and this year sponsored by the Royal College of Physicians.
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Muslim Attitudes: The Real Story
New data from Ipsos shows the views of London's Muslims are similar to the views of Londoners on a variety of issues.
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Closing The Gaps
The public are much more likely to think that cultural and religious barriers prevent Bangladeshi and Pakistani women from working than women in general (37% compared with 5%).