1. Skyrocketing cost of a
degree
On average, in the academic year
2011/12, full-time students spent
a total of £13,909
Part-time students are
spending £18,946
(including tuition fees)
Source: Student Income and Expenditure Survey
2. The unsung carers of
England
1.3 million
providing more than
20 hours
unpaid care per week
Source: Health Survey for England
3. Tough times for Glaswegian families
Over 1 in 10 families in
Glasgow face severe
disadvantage, that’s 3
times the national
average
Source: Multiple disadvantage in Scotland: Secondary analysis
of the Scottish Household Survey dataset
4. Away from the home, close to the
phone
9 in 10 fathers who don't live with their kids, say they
keep in contact with their children
Source: Modern Fatherhood
5. Softening attitudes to welfare recipients
34% of people
support more spending on
benefits, even if it means
higher taxes, up from
28%
in 2011
Source: British Social Attitudes
6. A free apple a day, keeps Ofsted away
Pupils in the areas trialing the free
school meals programme were
between four and eight weeks
ahead of children in non-pilot
areas, in terms of attainment
From September, all under-8s
will be getting Free School
Meals
Source: Evaluation of the Free School Meals pilot
7. SEX: we’re having less of it, but
with more people
Men sleep with an average of
11.7 people in their lifetime,
and women 7.7
People now report having sex
just under 5 times per month,
compared with just over 6 in
the last round of the survey
Source: Natsal
8. Footfall
The number of journeys made on foot fell by
27% between
1995 to 2012
Source: National Travel Survey
9. Well-behaved tweens
87% of 11-15 year
olds who think that their
families would disapprove
of them drinking, don't
drink
Source: Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use in 11-15 year olds
10. The bank of mum and dad
40% of buyers got help from family or friends to buy first home
Parents contribute an estimated £2 billion per year, in the form of gifts or
loans, to help fund first time buyer deposits
Source: Support for first-time buyers
11. Our crime and justice research has
influenced:
Sentencing
online fraud
offences
How victims'
services can
demonstrate their
effectiveness
Sentencing
sexual
offences
Source: Attitudes to sentencing sexual offences
12. Support for Scottish independence
at lowest since devolution
23% of people in Scotland now
think that ‘Scotland should become
independent, separate from the rest of
the UK' – down nine points on the
2011 figure (32%)
Source: Scottish Social Attitudes
13. Off to a fat start
1 in 10 Scottish children is obese by the time they start school
with 15% of primary children not getting the recommended hour of
physical activity per day
Source: Growing up in Scotland
14. Dramatic changes in how we think about
personal relationships
In 1987, 64% of people thought
that homosexuality was always
wrong - now 22% think this
Source: British Social Attitudes
