Scottish Social Attitudes 2015: Attitudes To Social Networks, Civic Participation And Co-Production

It explores levels of social capital in Scotland by addressing a number of key questions: How connected are people to their local area and to what extent do people belong to social networks? Which groups are more likely to feel they belong to their local area and have strong social networks? What is the strength of the relationship between place and levels of social capital? Are people eng. [...] Those living in the least deprived quintile were also more likely than those living in the most deprived quintile to have done at least one of the activities to register what they thought on an issue in the last few years (77% in areas in the least deprived quintile compared with 60% of those living in areas in the most deprived quintile).5 And those who were working were more likely than those wh. [...] For example, they were more likely to feel that they belonged to their local area, to meet socially with people more often and to agree that they had people in their local area to turn to for advice and support. [...] People in rural areas were more likely to say they had people to turn to for advice and support, to believe that people in their local area are able to improve things around here if they want to and to have volunteered to improve their local area. [...] Feeling that people can be trusted was also shown to be associated with high levels of social capital suggesting that community-based projects that support the involvement of and collaboration between local people in decision making could support the development of trust and increase levels of social capital in local areas.