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• Posted on 21 January 2014 by Sir John Curtice, Senior Research Fellow ScotCen

  New light on the independence debate: the score at half time

  

  Tonight (Tuesday) sees the release of initial findings on attitudes towards independence from the latest Scottish Social Attitudes survey, which was conducted between June and October last year. Tomorrow (Wednesday) you will be able to both to mine the data for yourself using our data explorerwhile there will also be some briefings that report on our early analyses available here. 

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  Tags: John Curtice, SSA, ScotCen Social Research, Scottish Social Attitudes, Scottish independence, What Scotland Thinks, independence

• Posted on 25 June 2012

  Better together, but on what terms?

  Today sees the launch of ‘Better together’, the official campaign for a No vote in the referendum on Scottish independence. The precise tactics the campaign uses to persuade voters to reject independence will no doubt be the subject of intense debate over the coming weeks and months. But one area th...

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  Tags: ScotCen Social Research, independence, SSA, Scottish Social Attitudes