Public Confidence in Official Statistics, 2021

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br><p class="x_x_x_BodyCopy">The <span style="font-style: italic;">Public Confidence in Official Statistics</span> (PCOS) survey is intended to provide insights into the knowledge and opinions of the British public on official statistics, including their knowledge of, use of and trust in these statistics.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="x_x_x_BodyCopy">In 2021, PCOS was run as a stand-alone push to web survey. Participants were encouraged to complete the 10 to15-minute survey online, but paper self-completion surveys were offered to all non-responding households to maximise response and sample quality. Fieldwork took place between 15th October and 20th December 2021. Up to two adults per sampled address could complete the survey. Interviews were achieved with a representative sample of 3,398 adults aged 18 and over in Britain from 2,379 households. This represents an adjusted household response rate of 24%. The majority of participants, 2,286, completed the survey online.</p>
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<p class="x_x_x_BodyCopy">PCOS has been run intermittently over the last two decades including, most recently, in 2014, 2016 and 2018. From 2009 - 2018, PCOS was fielded as a module on NatCen’s face-to-face <span style="font-style: italic;">British Social Attitudes</span> survey (BSA).&nbsp;The move to online fieldwork does create a risk that any differences identified between the results of the 2021 survey and those of previous waves of PCOS might, at least in part, be occasioned by the change of method rather than reflecting real change in public attitudes. However, PCOS 2021 has been designed to minimise, as far as possible, the impact of the change in mode on the comparability of the data over time</p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br><p>The survey data include variables covering the following main topics:</p><ul><li>demographics<br></li><li>awareness of organisations that use public statistics</li><li>participation in and use of Office for National Statistics (ONS) surveys</li><li>level of trust in public institutions</li><li>level of trust in ONS statistics, and reasons for this</li><li>usage and opinions of the Census, Consumer Price Index, Gross Domestic Product, employment/unemployment statistics, crime statistics, and Covid-19 statistics</li></ul>

<P>摘要版权归英国数据服务（UK Data Service）及数据收集版权所有者所有。</P><br><p class="x_x_x_BodyCopy"><span style="font-style: italic;">官方统计公众信心调查</span>（Public Confidence in Official Statistics，简称PCOS）旨在深入了解英国公众对官方统计数据的认知与观点，包括其对这些统计数据的了解程度、使用情况及信任度。&nbsp;</p><p class="x_x_x_BodyCopy">2021年，PCOS以独立式网络推送调查的形式开展。研究鼓励参与者在线完成这项时长10至15分钟的调查，但为所有未回应家庭提供了纸质自填问卷，以最大化提升回应率和样本质量。实地调查于2021年10月15日至12月20日期间进行。每个抽样地址最多允许两名成年人参与调查。最终从英国2379个家庭中获取了3398名18岁及以上成年人的代表性样本，调整后的家庭回应率为24%。大多数参与者（2286人）通过在线方式完成了调查。</p><p class="x_x_x_BodyCopy"></p><p class="x_x_x_BodyCopy"></p><p class="x_x_x_BodyCopy">过去二十年间，PCOS调查间歇性开展，最近几次分别在2014年、2016年和2018年。2009年至2018年期间，PCOS作为模块纳入英国国家社会研究中心（NatCen）的面对面《英国社会态度调查》（British Social Attitudes Survey，简称BSA）。转向在线调查方式确实存在一定风险：2021年调查结果与之前几轮PCOS结果之间的任何差异，可能至少部分源于方法变更，而非反映公众态度的真实变化。不过，2021年PCOS调查的设计已尽可能降低了模式变更对数据长期可比性的影响。</p><br><B>主要主题</B>:<BR><br><p>调查数据包含涵盖以下主要主题的变量：</p><ul><li>人口统计学特征<br></li><li>对使用公共统计数据的机构的认知</li><li>参与及使用英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics，简称ONS）调查的情况</li><li>对公共机构的信任程度</li><li>对ONS统计数据的信任程度及其原因</li><li>对人口普查（Census）、消费者价格指数（Consumer Price Index）、国内生产总值（Gross Domestic Product）、就业/失业统计数据、犯罪统计数据及新冠疫情（Covid-19）统计数据的使用情况与看法</li></ul>