With a general election looming, the latest results from our Scottish Opinion Monitor show that Labour has polled ahead of the SNP for the first time in six months in terms of the Westminster parliament.
The overall aim of the survey was to carry out a comprehensive survey of the way in which local authority and national park authority stakeholders perceive A+DS and to explore their experience of the organisation's Design Review service.
Among those who are "absolutely certain to vote", 37% say they would vote Conservative, 32% Labour and 19% Liberal Democrat. Assuming a national uniform swing, these shares of the votes would make Labour the largest party in a hung Parliament (with about 294 seats to the Tories' 275).
Among those who are "absolutely certain to vote", 37% say they would vote Conservative, 32% Labour and 19% Liberal Democrat, our February Political Monitor shows.
Ipsos's February Issues Index shows that the economy remains the most important issue facing the country today, as has been the case since September 2008.
Whoever wins the election, and whatever the next regime has in store for public services, one key issue will remain our young people, says Ben Page, Chief Executive, Ipsos.
Ipsos Scotland conducted an evaluation of user experiences and perceptions of the `Smokeline' stop-smoking telephone advice service, to help inform the future development of the service. Commissioned by NHS Health Scotland, the evaluation comprised a quantitative Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) survey of `Smokeline' callers, a series of follow-up qualitative telephone interviews with IVR respondents, and a mystery shopping exercise.
