[ARCHIVED CONTENT] MGC Questions Draft 1 Questionnaire for MGC

MORI/12326

Dept for International Development - MORI Schools Survey

Topline Results

17.03.00

2,767 interviews were conducted among children aged 11-16 in England and Wales
Self-completion questionnaires were completed in 115 classroom sessions between 17 January and 29 February 2000.
Data have been weighted by age, sex and region.
Results are based on all respondents unless otherwise stated.
An asterisk (*) represents a value of less than one per cent, but not zero.
Where results do not sum to 100%, this may be due to multiple responses, computer rounding, or the exclusion of ‘don’t know/not stated’ response categories.

ABOUT YOURSELF

First of all we would like to ask some questions about yourself. Please remember your answers are confidential and you will not be identified.

QA	How old are you? PLEASE WRITE IN
			%
		11	19
		12	19
		13	18
		14	18
		15	18
		16	7

QB	Are you male or female? PLEASE TICK ONE BOX ONLY
			%
		I am a boy/male	51
		I am a girl/female	49

QC	Which of the following best describes you? PLEASE TICK ONE BOX ONLY
			%
		White	82
		British Black	2
		Black Caribbean	1
		Black African	2
		Black Other	1
		British Asian	4
		Indian	2
		Pakistani	2
		Bangladeshi	1
		Chinese	1
		East African Asian	*
		Other	2
		Not stated	1

QD	Who lives in your home? PLEASE TICK ALL THAT APPLY
			%
		My mother/stepmother	94
		My father/stepfather	82
		My brother(s)	59
		My sister(s)	55
		Somebody else	9
		Not stated	*

QD1	Which of the following, if any, best describes how much you know about developing countries? PLEASE TICK ONE BOX ONLY
			%
		I don’t know anything about them	14
		I know something about them	69
		I know a lot about them	10
		Don’t know	7
		Not stated	1

QD2	In many of these countries there are people who do not have enough to eat, cannot go to school to learn to read and write, or cannot always get basic healthcare. Which of the following, if any, best describes how you feel about this? PLEASE TICK ONE BOX ONLY
			%
		I am very concerned about it	32
		I am fairly concerned about it	37
		I am aware of it but I don’t have strong feelings about it one way or another	21
		I am not very concerned about it	2
		I am not at all concerned about it	2
		Don’t know	5
		Not stated	1

QD3	Thinking about poverty, which means ‘being poor’, how much would you say that poverty in developing countries affects people in the United Kingdom? Would you say it affects people in the United Kingdom quite a lot, a little bit, or not at all? PLEASE TICK ONE BOX ONLY
			%
		Quite a lot	18
		A little bit	59
		Not at all	11
		Don’t know	11
		Not stated	1

QD4	In what ways do you think people in the United Kingdom can be affected by poverty in developing countries, that is, countries that are poorer than our own? PLEASE WRITE ALL YOUR IDEAS IN THE SPACE BELOW. If you can’t think of anything, just leave the space blank
			%
		Donating money/giving money/sending money	7
		Refugees/immigrants come here looking for work/over populating us	5
		Giving them money means less for our needs/uses up our resources	3
		Feel sorry for them/can be upsetting	3
		Watching T.V./new/media showing poverty	3
		Giving them materials/necessary items/food/ clothes	3
		Homelessness/living on the streets/have no homes	3
		Feel guilty/feel guilty that we have more than them	2
		Raising money	2
		Having relatives/friends in poor countries	1
		Trade would be affected	1
		People in this country are not affected	1
		Can lead to conflict/war	1
		Jobs can be affected	1
		Government increasing our taxes	1
		Pressured into donating money	1
		Lack of money	1
		People go out to help them/spend their time helping them	1
		Unable to get food/water	1
		Sending medical care/health facilities	1
		Abolishing 3^rd world debt	1
		Makes you realise how lucky we are	1
		We have our own homeless/poor/problems in this country	1
		Diseases coming over to UK	*
		Families split/abandoned	*
		Nobody cares enough to help	*
		Give them a good education	*
		Exploitation of cheap labour	*
		Foreign holidays can be affected	*
		People in poorer countries waste money	*
		Being aware	*
		Military support	*
		Others	5
		Don’t know	2
		Not stated	62

QD5	The world’s governments want to reduce poverty around the world (that is, people being poor, and living on 65p or less a day). By the year 2015 (in 15 years’ time), they want to: 1) Reduce the number of people who are very poor by half. 2) Have every child in every country going to a primary school. 3) Improve basic healthcare for everybody. Thinking about all of these together, how likely, if at all, would you say they are to reach these goals? PLEASE TICK ONE BOX ONLY
			%
		Certain to	5
		Very likely to	10
		Fairly likely to	38
		Not very likely to	31
		Not at all likely to	6
		Certain not to	3
		Don’t know	6
		Not stated	1

QD6	Governments and other organisations try to help developing countries to reduce poverty in a number of ways. Which, if any, of the following do you think are most important? PLEASE TICK UP TO THREE BOXES
			%
		Providing training and expertise, for example doctors, nurses, or engineers	58
		Cancelling poor countries’ debts – that is, the money that poor countries owe to rich countries	57
		Working to prevent war and conflict	54
		Helping developing countries to sell more goods to richer countries	32
		Providing financial assistance (for example, more loans and/or grants)	25
		Other	2
		None of these	1
		Don’t know	10
		Not stated	3

QD7	Do you think that you personally or your family can do anything to help people in poorer countries, or not? PLEASE TICK ONE BOX ONLY
			%
		Yes	58
		No	18
		Don’t know	21
		Not stated	3

QD8	How do you think you can help people in poorer countries, if at all? PLEASE TICK ALL THE BOXES THAT APPLY
			%
		Giving money to charity	71
		Raising money for charity through a sponsored event	57
		Buying goods for which a fair price has been paid to producers from poor countries (such as Oxfam or Body Shop goods or Fair Trade goods)	56
		Raising money for a charity in some other way	48
		Joining a charity such as Oxfam or Action Aid	36
		Taking part in a demonstration about conditions in poor countries	25
		Writing an article for a school or local newspaper	22
		Writing to an MP or local Councillor asking for a better deal for poor countries	21
		Going on holiday to a poorer country	16
		I don’t think we can help people in poorer countries	5
		Other	2
		Don’t know	9
		Not stated	3

QD9	How do you find out what is happening in developing countries? PLEASE TICK ALL THE BOXES THAT APPLY IN THE LEFT HAND COLUMN
Q10	Would you like to know more about what is happening in developing countries? If so, how? PLEASE TICK ALL THE BOXES THAT APPLY IN THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN
			QD9	QD10
			%	%
		TV News	83	35
		Newspapers or magazines	70	31
		Children’s TV programmes (e.g. Newsround, Blue Peter)	57	30
		Charities	50	23
		Other TV or radio programmes	48	29
		School lessons	47	36
		My family or friends	31	18
		Internet	30	31
		Books	22	26
		Church or other religious activities	21	14
		Films at the cinema	18	19
		Foreign travel / holidays	14	16
		Other school activities	11	23
		Other	1	2
		I don’t know/I don’t want to find out any more	2	17
		Not stated	4	13

QI1	Looking at the list below, in which of these ways, if any, do you think that high levels of poverty in developing countries can affect us in the United Kingdom? By developing countries we mean countries that are poorer than our own. PLEASE TICK UP TO THREE BOXES
			%
		Base: All answering	(2,311)
		By leading to conflict and war	47
		By increasing the risk of diseases spreading to the United Kingdom	35
		By making foreign travel and foreign holidays more dangerous	32
		By damaging the earth’s environment	30
		By affecting jobs in the United Kingdom and the UK economy	26
		Other	2
		None of these	6
		Don’t know	22