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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 A3.11: Thinking back over the last 12 months, that is since (month of interview) 2014, would you say that since then the general standard of living in Scotland has increased or fallen?

	Increased	Stayed the same	Fallen	*Weighted bases*	*Unweighted bases*
	%	%	%
ALL	19	33	42	1288	1288
Age
18-29	13	38	36	239	143
30-39	19	33	44	227	193
40-64	20	32	45	533	582
65+	24	33	39	288	368
Sex
Male	21	36	37	617	582
Female	17	31	47	671	706
Household income
Up to 14,300	16	29	51	236	278
14,300 up to 26,000	24	31	41	248	264
26,000 up to 44,200	18	31	48	285	272
Over 44,200	23	38	36	287	256
DK / Ref / NA	16	37	33	233	218
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2012 Quintiles
Most deprived	14	31	50	224	178
2	22	22	48	267	246
3	18	34	43	284	320
4	22	35	37	270	332
Least deprived	20	46	32	242	212
Urban / Rural Classification
Large urban areas	19	32	44	517	344
Other urban areas	18	33	44	410	353
Accessible small towns	21	33	39	114	143
Remote / Very remote small towns	19	40	39	51	98
Accessible rural	23	35	37	125	188
Remote rural / Very remote rural	21	43	30	72	162
Party identification
Conservative	28	42	26	140	177
Labour	16	39	43	251	247
Liberal Democrat	22	41	36	45	50
SNP	21	28	47	543	529
Other / DK / Ref / NA	14	33	40	309	284
Self-rated hardship
Living really comfortably/ comfortably on present income	24	36	35	733	750
Neither	13	34	46	373	364
Struggling/really struggling on present income	13	20	64	172	166

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Table A3.11: Thinking back over the last 12 months, that is since (month of interview) 2014, would you say that since then the general standard of living in Scotland has increased or fallen?

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