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1. Given & Ormston (2006) Scottish Social Attitudes survey 2005: Scottish Executive Core module, Technical report, Scottish Executive Social Research.
2. Much of the analysis in this section was run twice, once including those who did not know how to answer the evaluation questions and once excluding them, to see if patterns were any different once they had been removed from analysis. However, the results were largely similar, so the views of all respondents are included in Figure 1.
3. With the intention that these questions would be repeated annually.
4. For further details see Given & Ormston (2006) Scottish Social Attitudes survey 2005: Scottish Executive Core module, Technical report, Scottish Executive Social Research
5. The option 'both the UK government and Scottish Executive' was not on the showcard for respondents, but was available for interviewers to code where respondents suggested this unprompted.
6. Respondents who were unable to say whether standards had increased, fallen or stayed the same were not asked the follow-up question about what standards were the result of. These respondents are included in the 'not answered' category here.
7. For full details of this analysis, see the logistic regression tables in Given & Ormston (2006) Scottish Social Attitudes survey 2005: Scottish Executive Core module, Technical report, Scottish Executive Social Research.
8. As measured by the devolution 'quiz', discussed in detail Given & Ormston, (2006) Evaluations of devolution: Awareness and perceptions of government, Scottish Executive Social Research.
9. See Given & Ormston, (2006) Evaluations of devolution: Awareness and perceptions of government, Scottish Executive Social Research for more detailed discussion of responses to this question.
10. See Given & Ormston (2006) Evaluations of devolution: Awareness and perceptions of government, Scottish Executive Social Research, section on 'Where does power and influence

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