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Public trust in senior politicians has fallen in the last two years, according to a survey carried out for the Committee on Standards in Public Life. The survey suggests 22% of people think government ministers tell the truth - down from 27% in the 2006 survey. Committee chair Sir Christopher Kelly called the results "deeply disturbing".
BMRB Social Research carried out the survey between January and March this year.
View coverage of the survey on the BBC website
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BMRB has been commissioned by the Central Office of Information (COI) and Department of Health to evaluate the forthcoming ‘Change4Life’ campaign. The campaign aims to work with multiple partners across the private, voluntary, and public sectors in order to tackle rising childhood obesity.
The study involves large-scale face-to-face fieldwork, using multimedia CAPI, conducted across 12 months of the year.
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BMRB has been commissioned by the NSPCC to undertake the largest study of child maltreatment ever conducted in the UK. The Survey of Children's Safety and Victimisation will interview 6000 respondents during 2009, and will focus on young people aged up to 24, with parents responding on behalf of the youngest children.
‘The NSPCC is very pleased that BMRB has been contracted to do this important survey,’ said Lorraine Radford, head of research at NSPCC. ‘We urgently need to know more about the current prevalence of violence and abuse to children and young people in the UK. We are…
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Working in social research brings diverse subject matter, often involving challenging and very niche respondent groups – in other words they are hard to reach! Nowhere is this more true than in qualitative research. We’d like to take the opportunity to shine the spotlight on our recruitment team, whose efforts to make sure we get to interview the correct people ensure the calibre of our qualitative research.
At BMRB Qualitative, we’ve developed a closely integrated recruitment and research process in-house rather than using external recruitment agencies. Our in-house recruiters and the field team work side by side from project conception,…
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Finding ways to reduce social desirability bias has long been one of the biggest challenges for researchers when designing questionnaires. The theory goes that while most people want to be ‘good respondents’ and provide the information that is asked for, they also want to appear to be ‘good people’ and so will try to represent themselves to the interviewer in a way that reflects well on themselves. Therefore, when asking about socially desirable (or undesirable) attitudes or behaviour it is important to design questions in a way that reduces the likely level of social desirability bias.
‘Green’ behaviour is one…
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A panel of independent research experts will today present a paper which sets out the scientific basis for the main phase of the independent evaluation of front of pack nutritional signposting in the UK.
This paper will include some insights from the initial qualitative work, which explored how people actually use FOP labels. It concentrates on findings that are most relevant to the design of the next phase - the quantitative study which will provide information about the elements of the signposting schemes currently in use, and identify which are most effective in helping consumers make informed food choices. This…
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Trust in top politicians ‘falls’
