The Chatham House-YouGov Survey 2011 tests British thinking about the country’s place in the world and assesses how this may have changed during the UK coalition government’s first year in office. The survey examines the attitudes of two groups – the first a representative sample of GB adults, and the second a group of ‘opinion-formers’ from YouGovStone’s panel of influential adults.

This website allows you to explore the survey data through charts and tables. Comparisons can be made between the general public and opinion-former responses and also across a number of indicators: whether for the general public sample (by voting intention, 2010 vote, gender, age, social grade, and region) or for the ‘opinion formers’ (by voting intention and sector). The questions have been split into the themes on the left-hand side of the webpage to ease your search.

We hope this interactive format will provide a useful and innovative way of exploring the specific results in detail. The full tables of results are available here. An analysis of the results by Dr Robin Niblett, Director of Chatham House, with contributions from a range of experts, is available here.

Further details on the survey, including the number of respondents, dates of the fieldwork, and definitions of the two samples can be found here.

How the website works

To access results

The links initially displayed on the left-hand side of the page represent the main themes covered in the survey (e.g. National assets, Military engagement, etc.) Click on one of these primary links to display secondary links, all of which lead to questions relating to the chosen main theme (e.g. Foreign policy assets and Factors behind reputation for the National assets theme). Click on one of these secondary links to display the results for your chosen question.

To re-arrange the data display in chart form

To swap between views of different clusters of data, click between the links ‘sample’ and ‘response’ in the upper left corner of the page. When the clusters are arranged by ‘sample’, the left cluster represents data collected from ‘opinion-formers’ and the cluster on the right represents the ‘general public’. When the clusters are arranged by response, there are a range of cluster-pairs, each corresponding to a different response to the question listed at the top of the page. To remove (and reinstate) bars in the charts, click on the relevant text element in the key underneath the chart display of the results to remove, and click again to reinstate (e.g. For the Foreign policy assets question listed under the National assets theme, click on the text reading UK-based multinational companies to remove the orange bar; click on the text again to reinstate the bar).

To view the chart data in greater detail

Click on the ‘Explore responses by category >>’ link in the upper right corner of the page. In the chart view, to generate the chart, you must first select a category (e.g. voting intentions or social grade). To generate new charts, select new categories.

To swap between chart and tabular views of data

Use the chart icon (with three bars) and the blue and white icon table icon (with three columns) in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

To re-arrange the data to display in tabular form

To re-arrange the rows in the table in ascending or descending order, click on the arrows in the cells along the top row. To swap the ordering of the table between sample and response, click on the icon labeled ‘Swap table axes’ in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.

To view the tabular data in greater detail

To view detailed data in tabular form click the table icon (see instruction above). The table view automatically generates tables for all sets of characteristics. You can either scroll down the page or click on the quick links along the top. To return to the summary chart and summary table pages, click on the '<< Back to summary' link.

Further information on the surveys:

The Chatham House-YouGov Survey 2011 is formed of two specific surveys conducted by YouGov on behalf of Chatham House. The first was of a representative sample of 2,023 adults and was undertaken between 20 and 22 June 2011. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all UK adults aged 18 and over. The second was of 834 ‘opinion-formers’ from YouGovStone’s panel of influential adults and was undertaken between 17 and 23 June 2011. Both surveys were carried out online.

Please note that some questions were only asked of the general public so, in these cases, no results will appear in the ‘Opinion-formers’ category.

Glossary

Sample

The ‘samples’ mentioned in the graphs and charts refer to the general public and the ‘opinion-formers’.

Response

A response refers to the answer to the question listed at the top of each page of data.

Categories

When responses are explored by category, the data is given in more detail than the summary view. For the ‘General public’ sample, responses can be arranged according to ‘Voting intention’, ‘2010 vote’, ‘Gender’, ‘Age’, ‘Social grade’ or ‘Region’. For the ‘opinion-formers’ sample, responses can be arranged according to ‘Voting intention’ or ‘Sector’.

Social Grade

These grades are used to classify sections of UK society according to socio-economic status. Broadly speaking, ABC1 refers to the middle-income respondents, while C2DE refers to the lower-income respondents.