'Forced choice' national identity

Question details

"National identity that best describes the way respondent thinks of themselves? (Asked if they choose more than one from the list)"

Survey years

1999: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1482 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2000: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1663 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2001: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1605 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2002: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1665 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2003: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1508 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2004: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1637 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2005: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1549 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2006: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1594 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2007: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1508 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2009: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1482 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2010: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1495 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2011: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1197 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2012: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1229 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2013: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1497 respondents, 18 and older. Further info
2014: ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) survey for Multiple funders with 1339 respondents, 18 and older. Further info

Bar

Line

Table

End Date	Jan 1999	Jan 2000	Jan 2001	Jan 2002	Jan 2003	Jan 2004	Jan 2005	Jan 2006	Jan 2007	Jan 2009	Jan 2010	Jan 2011	Jan 2012	Jan 2013	Jan 2014
British	17%	13%	16%	19%	21%	19%	15%	14%	20%	16%	20%	16%	21%	25%	24%
English	2%	2%	2%	1%	1%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%	1%	2%
European	2%	1%	2%	1%	3%	2%	1%	1%	1%	2%	1%	2%	2%	2%	2%
Irish	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	0%	1%	1%	1%	0%	1%	1%	1%
Northern Irish	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	1%	0%	0%	1%	0%	1%	0%
Scottish	77%	82%	78%	78%	74%	76%	80%	81%	75%	79%	75%	78%	74%	70%	70%
Ulster (2001 onward)	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Welsh	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%
None of these	1%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	1%

End Date	Jan 1999	Jan 2000	Jan 2001	Jan 2002	Jan 2003	Jan 2004	Jan 2005	Jan 2006	Jan 2007	Jan 2009	Jan 2010	Jan 2011	Jan 2012	Jan 2013	Jan 2014
British	17%	13%	16%	18%	20%	19%	14%	14%	19%	15%	19%	15%	20%	24%	23%
English	2%	2%	2%	1%	1%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%	1%	2%
European	2%	1%	2%	1%	3%	2%	1%	1%	1%	2%	1%	2%	2%	2%	2%
Irish	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	0%	1%	1%	1%	0%	1%	1%	1%
Northern Irish	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	1%	0%	0%	1%	0%	1%	0%
Scottish	77%	80%	77%	75%	72%	75%	77%	78%	72%	73%	73%	75%	69%	66%	65%
Ulster (2001 onward)	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Welsh	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%
None of these	1%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	1%
Don't know	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	1%
Refused	1%	3%	2%	2%	2%	2%	3%	3%	4%	6%	4%	4%	4%	5%	5%

Explore

See these data broken down by

'Forced choice' national identity

Question details

Survey years

Explore

See more questions from

Join the discussion about 'Forced choice' national identity

Explore

See more questions from

Share this data

Embed this graph

Join the discussion about 'Forced choice' national identity