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1.
See Annex 2 for more details
about the
Scottish Social Attitudes survey.
2. The small differences between the results
reported in Figure 2.1 and those commented on in the text
are due to rounding.
3. This distinction was made for two reasons. The
Daily Record is significant because it is the
paper most commonly read by respondents, and it is the only
tabloid that is produced within Scotland. The other
tabloids are all Scottish editions of London based papers
(e.g.
The Sun, Daily Mail, Express, Mirror) so while
their editorial and news content has a Scottish focus they
are not exclusively Scottish papers.
4. For those not currently in work the employment
sector of their most recent job was collected.
5.
See Annex 2 for a description
of the social class measure used throughout this report.
6. This question asked people to rate their
perceptions of their household's income using a scale
ranging from "living very comfortably" to "finding it very
difficult".
See Table 1 in Annex 3 for full
details of the question wording and responses given.
7. While the five percentage point increase in the
proportion who trust the
UK Government recorded between 2000 and
2001 was statistically significant, the small variations
between 2001-2004 do not constitute any clear trend.
8. The figures for 25-34 year olds are not shown in
the table.
9. It is worth noting that these categories have
been combined because in both cases just one per cent chose
"very good".
10. An experiment was conducted to test whether the
wording change affected responses and concluded that it had
not.
11. In 1959 Labour won more seats in Scotland
despite not gaining the largest share of the vote, from
1964 onwards it gained both the plurality of votes cast and
seats won (see Brown
et al, 1999).
12. Due to space constraints, Figure 6.2 only looks
at the trends in the proportions saying standards had
increased. The full results for each year are shown in
Tables 2, 4 and 6 in
Annex 3.
13. This is an imperfect measure as it excludes
parents of school children who do not live with their
children, and others whose children have continued their
education beyond the school leaving age. It also includes
parents of children being educated privately (a fairly
small group overall), though it is entirely plausible that
their views about state education will have informed their
decision to use private schooling in the first place.
14. Table 8.2 includes a selection of the more
commonly chosen items as well as some which, although not
chosen by large proportions of people (such as "good
jobs"), revealed interesting variations between different
groups.
15. See
http://www.hbosplc.com/economy/includes/Scotland_2005_Q1.doc
for information about Scottish house prices in the twelve
months up to March 2004 and March 2005.
16. For the purposes of this analysis the Scottish
Executive and Scottish Parliament options have been
combined. Although these are clearly different bodies it is
doubtful that respondents made a clear distinction between
the two when answering this question (
see Chapter 2 on knowledge levels
for confirmation of the level of confusion that surrounds
these two terms).
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