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Scottish Social Attitudes 2015: Attitudes to Government, the National Health Service, the Economy and Standard of Living

Published: 17 March 2016
ISBN: 9781786521491

This report provides the findings of the core module of the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2015 on attitudes to government, the National Health Service, the economy and standard of living.

Supporting documents

Table A2.13: How good is the Scottish Government at listening to people's views before it takes decisions?

	Very good / Quite good	Not very good	Not good at all	*Weighted bases*	*Unweighted bases*
	%	%	%
ALL	59	25	9	1287	1287
Age
18-29	63	18	7	239	143
30-39	68	17	8	227	193
40-64	57	28	8	532	581
65+	52	30	14	288	368
Party identification
Conservative	36	33	20	140	177
Labour	48	35	12	251	247
Liberal Democrat	43	41	14	45	50
SNP	79	15	3	542	528
None, Other, Don't know, Not applicable	45	27	13	309	284
Constitutional preference
Scotland not in UK	72	17	6	507	486
Scotland in UK with own parliament	50	32	10	629	641
Scotland in UK without parliament	38	24	30	72	80
Interest in politics
A great deal / Quite a lot	65	20	13	513	517
Some	57	29	5	393	392
Not very much / None	52	25	9	381	378
National Identity
Scottish	66	20	7	344	333
More Scottish than British	68	18	7	347	338
Equally	49	32	11	386	395
More British / British	38	39	15	128	146
Urban / Rural Classification
Large urban areas	64	21	9	517	344
Other urban areas	55	27	10	410	353
Accessible small towns	50	31	7	114	143
Remote / Very remote small towns	54	31	9	51	98
Accessible rural	63	19	9	125	188
Remote rural /Very remote rural	55	26	9	72	162
Who ought to have most influence
Scottish Government	65	22	6	982	974
UK Government	31	35	23	176	178
Local councils in Scotland	53	24	14	85	90
The European Union	24	76	-	8	9

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Table A2.13: How good is the Scottish Government at listening to people's views before it takes decisions?

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