25th November 2013 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
…public’s questions about what independence would entail – and to persuade them of the merits of a Yes vote. But how big a task does Alex Salmond face in winning…
11th May 2014 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
…that the company was amongst the more pessimistic of the pollsters so far as the Yes side was concerned. Once the Don’t Knows were excluded, the poll in September put…
24th November 2013 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
…people aged 65 and over. Even after weighting those in that age bracket typically constituted only 12-14% of the company’s samples, when according to the most recent population estimates they…
18th November 2014 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum
…UKIP on 5%). This estimate of SNP is closer to the recent estimates of YouGov (43%) and Panelbase (45%) than that of Ipsos MORI (52%), but this is cold comfort…
30th October 2014 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
…people to produce a reliable estimate of opinion in Scotland alone. But if we combine a number of such polls then, subject to the caveat that the samples have not…
2nd September 2016 Comment
Perceptions of government & the Union The Scottish independence referendum
Summer is coming to an end. The streets of Edinburgh are about to be populated by politicians and their acolytes rather than festival goers. Next week the SNP announce their…
16th September 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
…16 September. The calculation includes an ICM poll for The Sunday Telegraph that had a smaller sample size than usual, it has exceptionally been included with a weight of 0.7….
7th February 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
There is a new poll from YouGov in today’s Scottish Sun. Its publication also allows us to play catch up with another reading of referendum voting intention that the company…
13th September 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
…of these polls had a smaller sample size than usual, it has been included with a weight of 0.7. Note that the fieldwork for the Opinium/Observer poll was completed on…
18th August 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
…even have backfired. The latest evidence that this appears to be the case comes in a YouGov poll for The Times, the first installment of which is published today, exactly…