« Previous | Contents |
Listen
FOOTNOTES
1. The work of these three commissions was brought under the remit of the new Equality and Human Rights Commission on 1 st October 2007.
2. In the case of someone of the same sex as themselves the question asked respondents how they would feel if a close relative 'married or formed a civil partnership or a long term relationship'.
3. This description was used in the expectation that it would be more readily understood than the term 'transsexual' amongst the general public. Transsexual people of course comprise only part of the transgender population.
4. Note that those who identified themselves as Muslim, were not asked about a relative forming a relationship with another Muslim (but were asked instead about a Christian). An equivalent procedure was also applied in respect of those who identified themselves as Hindu or Jewish.
5 . To ensure that all respondents had a common understanding of what was meant by the term, they were provided with the following definition of 'someone with a learning disability' before being asked this question. "A person with a learning disability needs help to learn new things and may need support with everyday living. They will have had this disability since childhood. Once known as 'mental handicap', the best known type is 'Downs syndrome'. It is different from a learning difficulty such as dyslexia."
6. It might also be the case that a gay man or lesbian would be more willing to declare their sexual orientation to someone with more liberal views.
7. Those who attend church frequently are, more likely to be older. However, multivariate analysis (not shown) indicates that this does not fully explain why those who practise a religion have distinctive attitudes. Equally older people are still more likely to think that sexual relations between two people of the same sex are wrong even after we take into account the fact that they are more likely to practise a religion regularly.
8. See Chapter Seven for a discussion of a comparison of the results in 2002 and 2006.
9. It might be noted that we pose a relatively severe test of this hypothesis because our examples of employment and the provision of goods and services, viz. primary school teaching and the provision of bed and breakfast in one's own home are relatively 'intimate' or 'sensitive' examples of such activities. Our evidence may thus well understate the differences between more and less intimate contexts.
10 . The eight comparisons that can be made between possible long-term relationships and other contexts are as follows: transsexual - with primary school teacher and B&B; gay men/lesbians - with primary school teacher and B&B; Gypsy/Traveller - with primary school teacher; Muslim - with primary school teacher; learning disability - with B&B; Black or Asian person - with primary school teacher.
11. This has the advantage that it means our indicators of the kind of place in which our respondents live are based on a large number of different, independent measures, rather than a small number of estimates shared in common by many respondents, thereby strengthening the power and robustness of our analysis.
12. See http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/07/31114822/0
13. Indeed we should note that in our formal modelling (see table A.3 in Annex A) the pattern is somewhat better captured by the percentage of people in professional and managerial occupations that live in an area rather than the percentage of graduates.
14. Equally there is no evidence that living in an area that is neither predominantly middle or working class has an impact either.
15. Of course, while negative images of 'other' groups may be held by individuals, those images are socially rather than individually constructed.
16. The full text of the question is ' Would you rather live in an area with lots of different kinds of people, or where most people are similar to you?'. In 2006 49% gave the latter answer, 34% the former. This compares with figures of 46% and 37% respectively in 2002.
17. Only a half of those who are uncomfortable seeing a Muslim woman with her face covered are comfortable seeing a woman breastfeeding in public. In contrast, as many as 83% of those who are comfortable with the use of the veil are comfortable about breastfeeding in public.
18. Note that this is despite the fact that there is a bigger difference in underlying scale scores between the first and last categories of the cultural diversity scale than there is between the two end points of the cultural threat scale.
19. In 2002, this question was worded slightly differently: "And have attempts to give equal opportunities to people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds in Scotland, such as black people and Asians, gone too far or not gone far enough?"
20. Note very small sample size - asked only of those who gave their religious identity as Islam/Muslim, Hindu or Jewish
21. Lynn, Peter, et al (2001) Recommended standard final outcome categories and standard definitions of response rates for social surveys, Institute for Social and Economic Research
22. See http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD/Overview for further details on the SIMD
« Previous | Contents |