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September 2019
Consumption of sugary drinks halved but no reduction in adult obesity in a decade
Sugary soft drink consumption for both adults and children has halved within the last two years, according to the latest Scottish Health Survey
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August 2019
Majority of Brits think A&E services are over used but half think it is hard to get a GP appointment
The first ever large-scale research into attitudes towards emergency care from the most recent British Social Attitudes Survey - carried out by The National Centre for Social Research and funded by the National Institute for Health Research - reveals significant differences in perspectives by a range of socio-demographic factors, such as area deprivation, age, young children in the household and gender.
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July 2019
A Britain that is losing its religion, has faith in science and is adopting more liberal ideas about sex and relationships
This year’s British Social Attitudes Survey finds a nation displaying multiple and sometimes rapidly changing identities, with Brexit continuing to divide.
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July 2019
Number of atheists more than doubles in two decades as less than half of Brits express confidence in Churches
The number of people who don’t believe in God has more than doubled in the past two decades, according to the most recent British Social Attitudes Survey, Britain’s longest running survey of public opinion.
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July 2019
A third of Brits say parental leave should be evenly shared, but around half still think it’s best that mothers do most of the childcare
Against a suite of government policies designed to enable parents to share childcare responsibilities more equally such as Shared Parental Leave, the British Social Attitudes Survey finds that 51% of people think the best option for a family with a pre-schooler is for the mother to do most of the childcare, despite 34% saying that parental leave should be evenly split between parentsi. In 2012, just 22% favoured the fifty-fifty split option.