Meeting the housing needs of disabled people and an increasingly ageing society is increasingly acknowledged by government to be of strategic importance. An estimated 20% of the adult population in Britain are disabled while around one in ten provide long-term care for someone that either lives with them or somewhere else.
What motivates people to go on holiday? When to go, and where? Focusing on people from mainland Europe, the US and Brazil, a number of trends emerge in the 2016 Ipsos/Europ Assistance Barometer.
Affluent interest in summer travel is hitting new highs, reflecting not only an enthusiasm for travel, but also shifting personal priorities and a broader sense of economic comfort.
Speed can be a mixed blessing. The cheetah is the fastest animal on land, yet 90% die within 3 months of birth. Chickens grow four times more quickly than they did fifty years ago and more than sixty times faster than they might grow naturally - but 80% of them are thought to be infected with Salmonella, Campylobacter or E coli.*
Members of Ipsos team participated in the Amsterdam Zuidas Run, a business run with 2.500 contestants from over 250 companies, in the Battle of Professions.
The general objective is to check a website or a mobile app by analysing the strengths and weaknesses regarding content, navigation and lay-out. Any type of context (E-commerce, media, corporate) can be analysed.