Publication - Research and analysis

Young People in Scotland Survey 2021: attitudes to violence against women and girls

Published: 14 June 2023
Directorate: Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
Topic: Children and families, Education, Equality and rights
ISBN: 9781805258827

Pupils across 50 state secondary schools were surveyed on their attitudes towards topics relating to violence against women and girls. The report examines how attitudes have changed since the first publication in 2014 and discusses differences in views across a range of equality characteristics.

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Footnotes

1. Fieldwork was carried out by Ipsos MORI between September and November 2014.

2. The report only discusses significant differences between groups or across time, thus non-significant results have not been discussed. Statistical significance has been established by calculating confidence intervals at the 95% level - where confidence intervals do not overlap, users may assume the difference between percentage points is significant.

3. Scottish Government (2021, November 30) Domestic abuse: statistics recorded by the Police in Scotland - 2020/21. Scottish Government.

4. In 2020-21, Police Scotland recorded around 65,000 incidents of domestic abuse in Scotland, an increase of 4% compared to the previous year. The number of domestic abuse incidents has been increasing for the past five consecutive years. Where gender information was recorded, 8 in 10 incidents of domestic abuse (80%) in 2020-21 had a female victim and a male accused. This decreased slightly from 82% in 2019-20.

5. Pupils responded to the following question "How would you describe your gender identity?" with options "Female", "Male", "In another way", "Prefer not to say.

6. Fieldwork was carried out between September and November 2014.

7. Fieldwork was carried out between February and April 2021.

8. The Scottish Health Survey provides further information on confidence intervals and how to use them.

9. OCHCR (1993) 'Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women'.

10. Scottish Government (2020) 'Violence against women and girls (VAWG)'.

11. COSLA (2010) 'What does gender have to do with violence against women?'.

12. Greenan, L. (2004) 'Violence against women: a literature review', Scottish Executive.

13. Rape Crisis Scotland (2017) 'Equally Safe at School', Glasgow.