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Adoption: The Baby And The Bathwater
This morning's widespread press discussion of last night's Commons vote to allow adoption by unmarried couples (including same-sex couples) makes much of the political ructions that the issue has caused in the Conservative Party, but there is little reference to public opinion on the issue.The issue is not yet resolved. Separate amendments defining that a couple can be of the same sex or different sex will be voted on next week; and the final bill may still be blocked in the Lords.
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Architectural Superstars Leave English Cold
The English people are passionate about buildings but don't care a jot who designs them, is the main finding of a major new survey published today by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and conducted by MORI.
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Race Is No Barrier To 'Being British'
Race Is No Barrier To 'Being British', but there is no consistent sense of 'Britishness'
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Tax And Spend
Now the dust has settled from the Chancellor's tax-raising budget, let us take the opportunity for a wider view of what we know about public attitudes to "tax and spend".
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County Councils 'Should Not Be Abolished'
Hampshire electors support regional power but not regional assemblies
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Most Of The British Public Don't Know That Red Cross Can Help In An Emergency
Most British people wouldn't know who to turn to following flooding or a fire at home, the British Red Cross said today in a report based on a MORI survey.
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British Public Supports EU Directive on GM Food
A new MORI poll released today demonstrates that the British public supports the EU initiative which would make it compulsory to label all food containing GM ingredients or derivatives. 76% said the labelling of all food with GM ingredients should be made compulsory.
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Local Elections: Why No-one Gives A Monkey's
In a sense it says all that needs to be said about yesterday's local election that a man in a monkey suit is now Mayor of Hartlepool.
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KPMG Consulting e-Government Survey 2002
A full report of the KPMG 2002 e-government survey is available in PDF format. If you would like a copy, please email Andrew Collinge
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Who's Asking? Answers May Depend On It
Last November we conducted a survey of British Asians on their attitudes to the military strikes in Afghanistan and to the War against Terrorism for Eastern Eye, a weekly newspaper aimed at Britain's Asian community. Over a third of the interviews were conducted by Asian interviewers. Therefore, in an interesting spin-off to the research we decided to look at whether or not the ethnicity of the interview made a difference on the answers given i.e. was there an interviewer effect? A number of studies in the United States and the in UK have been carried out looking into this phenomenon and several show that where the ethnicity of interviewer and respondent are matched, the responses yielded are different from those where they are not. These studies also suggest, however, that the interviewer effect only tends to be important when the subject of the survey is sensitive to the respondents' ethnicity or cultural background — which is what we found.