The February Economist/Ipsos issues index shows that, after January's dead heat between the economy and race/immigration concern about the latter has fallen by 7 percentage points to 34%, meaning that the economy is once again uncontested as the most important issue facing Britain today.
The first Economist/Ipsos issues index of 2014 shows that concern about race relations/immigration has increased to become, jointly with the economy, the most important issue facing Britain
Ipsos's aggregated data from all 12 months of our Issues Index surveys, with the top 10 most important issues (along with EU/Europe) broken down by gender, by age, ethnicity, social class and by voting intention. This is based on a total of more than 10,000 interviews, aggregated from the 12 individual polls.
Public confidence and advocacy in the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) has increased, and public confidence in donation is boosted by regulation according to an Ipsos survey.
An Ipsos poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry has shown that 74% of the public believe that a major research and development effort is needed to create new antibiotics for fighting infectious disease.
In a month in which energy prices have dominated many of the headlines, a fifth of the public (19%) are now concerned about prices/inflation. This is an increase of 8 percentage points since September
