13th September 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
The graph below shows What Scotland Thinks’ latest Poll of Polls and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by ICM, two by Survation, one by YouGov and one by Opinium, The polls were conducted between 5 and 12 September. The following new polls have been […]
13th September 2014 Scotland Question
The Scottish independence referendum
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13th September 2014 Scotland Question
The Scottish independence referendum
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13th September 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
ICM returns today to using the internet for its polling, this time for the Sunday Telegraph. Much of the interviewing for this latest poll in fact happened on the same days as that for the company’s poll in Saturday’s Guardian. However, this poll is a smaller exercise than those the company has been undertaking regularly […]
13th September 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
Survation have this afternoon released the result of a poll it has conducted for the Better Together campaign. Just as yesterday ICM released the results of a poll that had been conducted by phone rather than, as the company had done previously, over the internet, so also today’s poll is a phone poll from a […]
13th September 2014 Scotland Question
The Scottish independence referendum
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13th September 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
Since the YouGov/Sunday Times poll last Sunday, September 7th, reported a narrow Yes lead and prompted the current crisis reaction from both political parties and news organisations, the polls have been very consistent. They have ranged from the Survation poll on September 9th at 47% for Yes to the ICM poll on September 11th at […]
12th September 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
Earlier today, the Guardian released the findings of a poll conducted for it by ICM. Unlike the polls that ICM have been conducting for Scotland on Sunday and The Scotsman, this poll was conducted over the telephone (using random digit dialing) rather than via an online panel. Not least of the reasons for this approach […]
12th September 2014 Comment
Expectations of constitutional change The Scottish independence referendum
The reporting of polls can sometimes be a curious affair. Only last week a poll from YouGov that put Yes on 47% and No on 53% (after Don’t Knows were excluded) was widely reported as a hammer blow for the No side. Today we have another poll from the same company that puts Yes slightly […]
12th September 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
The graph below shows What Scotland Thinks’ latest Poll of Polls and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by YouGov, one by ICM, one by Survation, one by TNS BMRB and one by Panelbase, The polls were conducted between 27 August and 11 September. The […]