Changing attitudes to how Scotland is run
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Since 1999, Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) has been tracking the views and opinions of people’s social, political and moral attitudes in Scotland. Every year, members of the Scottish public are invited to take part and share their views on a range of topics such as work, equalities, welfare, health and how the country is run. Households are randomly selected from across Scotland to take part in the study to get a truly unbiased picture of attitudes in Scotland.
The 2023 wave of the Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey was run as a push-to-web survey for the first time in its history. From 1999 to 2019 it was run as a face-to-face survey and then a telephone survey in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this report was to analyse the impact of changing the mode of SSA from face-to-face interviewing to a push-to-web methodology.
In 2023, a condensed version of the SSA Core Module was run to explore potential impacts of a change in methodology from face-to-face to push-to-web. The key findings from this experimental survey are as follows:
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