TESTING WHETHER PEOPLE’S ATTITUDES TO INEQUALITY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR EXPERIENCES OF INEQUALITY

The purpose of Theme 4 is to assess whether people’s attitudes to inequality are associated with their lived experiences of inequality. This objective will be pursued by using the SASAS data on respondents’ attitudes to inequality (i.e. output from Theme 3) in conjunction with the spatial inequality measures (i.e. output from Theme 1). Specifically, the area-level inequality (and deprivation) indicators generated in Theme 1 will be linked to the individual-level SASAS respondent data using geographical identifiers in the SASAS dataset. This will generate a dataset at individual survey respondent level, but with contextual information about the geographical areas in which the respondents’ live, including the level of deprivation and level of inequality. 

A series of regression models will then be developed to test whether people’s attitudes to inequality are associated with their lived experiences of inequality. 

This part of the project is not scheduled to commence until the work under Themes 1 and 3 has been completed.