Fieldwork dates: 7 May 1999 - 31 August 2014
Data from: Scotland
Results from:
10 polls
| Fieldwork end date Pollster |
31 August 2014 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) | 31 October 2013 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) | 4 October 2010 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) | 1 September 2009 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) | 21 January 2007 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) | 1 October 2003 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) | 1 October 2002 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) | 1 November 2001 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) | 4 November 2000 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) | 12 August 1999 Poll by ScotCen (Scottish Social Attitudes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Too low and cause hardship | 31% | 26% | 30% | 31% | 33% | 41% | 41% | 45% | 43% | 36% |
| Too high and discourage finding jobs | 43% | 52% | 43% | 42% | 39% | 32% | 31% | 26% | 28% | 33% |
| Neither | 17% | 15% | 15% | 17% | 18% | 16% | 12% | 16% | 17% | 22% |
| Other | 0% | 0% | 6% | 5% | 3% | 5% | 8% | 6% | 7% | 3% |
| Don't know | 2% | 2% | 5% | 5% | 6% | 7% | 8% | 7% | 6% | 5% |
| Refused | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Opinions differ about the level of benefits for unemployed people. Which of these two statements comes closest to your own view: benefits for unemployed people are too low and cause hardship, or benefits for unemployed people are too high and discourage them from finding jobs?
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