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Public Says Prison Not The Answer For Women
The public favour providing women offenders with drug treatment, mental health care and community sentences rather locking them up, according to new research from MORI for the Fawcett Society.
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Londoners 'Satisfied With Life In The Capital'
A recent survey for the Commission on London Governance shows that Londoners express high levels of satisfaction with living in the capital. Seven in 10 Londoners also feel that they have a different outlook to people in the rest of the country, putting this down to a faster way of life and the capital's more multicultural environment. The Capital's history and heritage as well as its cultural diversity are highly valued.
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Local Government Review Research
MORI has just completed a major research project for The Boundary Committee for England. Some 17,000 residents in the north of England have been asked about the possible future pattern of unitary local government in the area.
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Who Are Britain's 'Grousers' and 'Shiners'?
The North-east is easily the most optimistic part of Britain, according to a new analysis from the MORI Social Research Institute. People in the north-east are consistently more positive than most others on the economy, and most public services.
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Direct Mail 'Binned' By A Third Of Britons
Two thirds of British people aged over 35 who receive direct mail either throw it in the bin (36%) or want it to stop (29%), according to research by MORI. The survey, commissioned by The REaD Group, shows two in five (42%) believe they receive seven or more pieces of direct mail a week.
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Patients Happy To See Nurses Instead Of Doctors For Out-Of-Hours Care
A survey from MORI reveals that the public would be happy to let nurses care for less serious conditions at night instead of insisting on being treated by a doctor.
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A Majority Of Over 100 With The Women's Vote? Or, No Overall Majority?
Dr Elizabeth Nelson, the founding partner of Taylor Nelson, now one of the world's largest market research groups, leads the London arm of the International Women's Forum, and asked me recently to have a look at the upcoming elections in the USA and here in Britain. I'll confess, I hadn't been paying enough attention to what's been happening to the women's voting intentions since the last general election. Mea culpa!
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Audit of Political Engagement
This week the Electoral Commission and the Hansard Society published a report seeking to audit the nature and extent of the UK public's political engagement, to be used to provide a platform for further debate about what might be done to enhance engagement in politics and the political process. The report is primarily based on a Political Engagement Poll conducted by the MORI Social Research Institute of 1,976 UK adults aged 18+ conducted in December 2003.
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Environmental Behaviour And World Environment Day
A new MORI survey for the Environment Agency has found over three-quarters (77%) of adults in England and Wales say they might be encouraged to do more for the environment or do things more often, if it were made easier. A similar proportion (73%) said they might do more, or do things more often, if they thought it would make a difference.