Jamie Stinson

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Inflation rates may be falling, but people expect further price rises

Nov 28, 2024 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson

Key points:There is a strong expectation that prices will rise next year. Two-thirds (65%) think the rate of inflation will increase in their country in the next 12 months. This figure is up 7pp since April. People more likely to feel worse off than four years ago. Thirty-seven per cent across 32 countries say they are worse off than before the pandemic. More see immigration as a driver of inflation. The proportion who choose immigration as a cause of inflation is up 4pp since April to 56%.
Mental health seen as the biggest health issue, while Brits continue to worry about overstretched NHS

Sep 23, 2024 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson

Ipsos has released its Ipsos Health Service Report - a 31-country study looking at the biggest health’s problems and the public’s attitudes to the quality of healthcare provided. Key findings in the UK include:Over 8 in 10 Britons believe the NHS is overstretched: 82% of Britons believe their healthcare system is overstretched, the highest percentage among the 31 countries surveyed.
Mental Health seen as the biggest Health issue

Sep 20, 2024 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson

While the Covid-19 virus is a respiratory disease, perhaps the pandemic’s biggest long-term effect on public health will be on mental health. We have seen a fundamental shift in attitudes to mental health compared to 2018, when we first started the Ipsos Health Service Report, and today. Six years ago, 27% chose mental health as one of the biggest health problems, putting it third, today that figure is 45% on average across 31 countries, now first.
Excitement for the 2024 Paris Games greater than for Tokyo; French enthusiasm lukewarm

Jul 22, 2024 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson

Major global sporting events can stoke loud cheers, tears of joy, as well as a few jeers. Our new global polling finds the vast majority (72% on average across 33 countries) think the Games in Paris will bring their country together and 57% say they’re interested in the event. This is up from 46% who said they were interested in the lead up to the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, which were postponed until July-August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Global Happiness 2024

Mar 18, 2024 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson

Key findings: Happiness is higher than it was during the height of the pandemic but lower than it was in the early 2010s. 71% across 30 countries describe themselves as happy, higher than the August 2020 figure of 63%, but lower than the 2011 figure of 77%. Looking at the long-term trends, Türkiye has seen the biggest decline in reported happiness since 2011 (down 30 percentage points), while Spain has seen the biggest increase during that time (up 7pp).
People still feeling the pinch, fed up with ‘shrinkflation’ as 2023 wraps up

Nov 27, 2023 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson |Melissa Dunne

The latest wave of the Ipsos Global Inflation Monitor finds people across 33 countries will have more money to spend in the next year as red-hot prices cool off slightly in many places; and almost half of the global public are seeing red over products getting smaller but prices staying the same. Globally an average of 33% are ‘just about getting by’ financially with an additional 27% reporting they are finding it difficult financially.
Politicians the least trusted profession, while doctors the most trustworthy

Oct 23, 2023 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson

The 2023 Ipsos Global Trustworthiness Index reveals that Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and Sweden are the most trusting of a range of professions and people. The Index tracks how trustworthy or untrustworthy 18 different groups including politicians, doctors and scientists are in the minds of global citizens, across 31 countries. The countries that top the list are those where trust across all professions is higher than distrust.
World Mental Health Day: 39% say they have had to take time off work due to stress in the past year

Oct 9, 2023 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson

While 78% think mental health is as important as physical health, only 34% globally say their country’s healthcare system treats them equally. Sixty-two per cent say in the past year their daily life has been disrupted due to stress and 39% say they have had to take time off work in the last 12 months because of stress.
People more likely to think their education system is poor than good

Sep 5, 2023 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson

Attitudes among generations to educationLooking at people across different age groups attitudes to education, older people are more likely to think the education system is worse than when they were at school. The longer since people were at school the most likely to say school is worse today than when they studied. Fifty-seven per cent of Baby Boomers say that this is case and only one in four (25%) say it is better today.
People more likely to think their education system is poor than good

Sep 5, 2023 | ipsos.com | Jamie Stinson

The first edition of the Ipsos Global Education Monitor looks at people’s attitudes to education and teaching, including a special feature on the role of AI in the classroom. People across 29 countries are more likely to describe the education system in their country as poor than good, the Ipsos Global Education monitor has found. However, attitudes vary considerably between countries on how people think their education system is doing.