Public opinion

v, the national youth volunteering charity, commissioned Ipsos to undertake qualitative and quantitative research among young people aged 16-25 in England, to explore their views and experiences of volunteering, and specifically full-time volunteering placements.

This second edition of the Ipsos Global @dvisor deals with how the disruption caused by the economic crisis is affecting the financial and CPG insdustries; and how it is precived by citizens around the world.

With the recent publication of the Digital Britain report, Ipsos's eSociety team takes a look at those who it aims to benefit (the digitally excluded), who's already online, and how government can accommodate both when it comes to delivering effective public services via the Internet.

This report provides a detailed account of many of the mechanisms local authorities and public
services can use to empower local communities. Activating Empowerment shows how empowerment mechanisms - such as participatory budgeting and deliberative forms of engagement - have the potential to restructure the relationship between service providers and users, state and citizen, and with it the very nature of political decision-making in the twenty first century.

There is a difficulty in measuring people's perceptions. This newsletter provides a framework for developing a more sophisticated understanding of what drives public attitudes.

This report aims to be a starting point for a debate on policy, charting the changing nature of the family, and what that means for parents, children and our wider society.

This project draws on the experiences of a range of local public service providers, and community groups to assess how information is provided to citizens to enable them to use and access services effectively, and crucially, to increase their involvement in government and their empowerment to influence government.

Key topics covered in this analysis include world citizen's attitudes on economic confidence, trade and regulation, trust of business, their most worrying issues and a unique segmentation on globalization and control.

Read our report which presents findings from the 2009 Young People Omnibus Survey of secondary school pupils, carried out by the Ipsos Social Research Institute on behalf of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA).