ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ScotCen is very grateful to the various organisations who have contributed to funding the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey over the last decade - particularly the Scottish Government Office of the Chief Researcher, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation.
We would also like to thank everyone involved in the preparation of this report -Susan Whittaker and Susan Robinson (Scottish Government) for their comments on early drafts of this report, and Lisa Given, Catherine Bromley and Fiona Dobbie for their work on earlier SSA reports on related themes.
Thanks are also due to our colleagues in NatCen's operations and computing departments (particularly Neil Barton, Trevor Hayden and Carol Bell in the Pink Team and Sandra Beeson in Project computing), to Ann Mair at the Social Statistics Laboratory at Strathclyde University, and to our team of interviewers and supervisors.
Finally, thanks to all those respondents who gave up their free time to take part in the survey.
Responsibility for the opinions expressed in this report, and for all interpretation of the data, lies solely with the authors.
Rachel Ormston & Simon Anderson