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Public Consultation On The New Gender Equality Duty (Glasgow)

The Gender Equality Duty was introduced in April 2007 aimed at addressing inequality on the grounds of gender. As part of its consultation process, Glasgow City Council commissioned Ipsos to conduct focus groups research among local residents.
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Ipsos Political Monitor December

More of the public are satisfied with the way Gordon Brown is doing his job as Chancellor of the Exchequer than are satisfied with the performance of any of the three party leaders. However, Gordon Brown's personal ratings are the lowest recorded by Ipsos since 1997 with the exception of the fuel crisis in late 2000.
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Issues Index: 1997-2006

Q What would you say is the most important issue facing Britain today?
Q What do you see as other important issues facing Britain today?
(Unprompted - combined answers)
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MORI's Polling Performance In The 2005 Election

MORI's final poll of the 2005 election campaign, published in the London Evening Standard on election day, predicted the Conservative and Liberal Democrat shares of the vote spot-on, and missed Labour by two percentage points - an average error of 0.67 points on the three major parties, well within the normally accepted margins of error.
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Are You Happy?

Are you happy? Nearly nine people in ten say they are. In the immediate run up to Christmas 86% of the 967 people phoned told Ipsos interviewers that they were either "very" (38%) or "fairly" (48%) happy with their life at present, while just 7% admitted to woe.
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Sport, exercise and physical activity

The Tourism, Culture and Sport Group of the Scottish Executive commissioned a module of questions in Ipsos's Scottish Social Policy Monitor.
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Public Perspectives On Political Party Funding

The general public would like to see the reform of political party funding bringing about greater controls on the influence from the affluent few and reinvigoration of local politics, according to deliberative research carried out by Ipsos on behalf of the Electoral Commission. This report outlines the findings from five deliberative workshops across the UK, and a further reconvened workshop which enabled the debate to be developed. The report will feed into Sir Hayden Phillip's Review of the Funding of Political Parties.
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Big Breakfast Evaluation

This Ipsos survey asked parents about their knowledge of, and attitudes towards, the Big Breakfast Initiative, a free breakfast service available to all primary school children across Glasgow.
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Brown Most Successful Chancellor, Say British Political Scientists

Gordon Brown has been rated the most successful post-War Chancellor in an exclusive Ipsos poll of nearly 300 academics belonging to the Political Studies Association (PSA).