Quantifying kindness, public engagement and place

Quantifying kindness, public engagement and place presents findings from the first ever quantitative survey on kindness in communities and public services. The data revealed a reassuring and yet complex picture of kindness in the UK and Ireland, with generally high levels of kindness reported, but at the same time variations in experiences between jurisdictions and across social groups.

The research also shed light on how people describe the place they live in, revealing that two in five people in the UK self-identify as living in a town; and provided insights into people’s sense of control over public services, and how they perceived and acted upon various methods of public engagement. The data was collected by Ipsos MORI, on behalf of Carnegie UK; surveys were run with representative random sampling of approximately 1,000 people in each of the five legislative jurisdictions in the UK and Ireland.