SURVEY DATA | Attitudes to inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic

The survey was fielded online by YouGov in November 2020. The questionnaire covers a range of topics, including:

• Beliefs about whether Britain was an equal or unequal society before the COVID-19 outbreak and whether this will change post-recovery
• Perceptions of whether inequalities are increasing or decreasing
• Concern about a range of specific inequality types, including unequal outcomes in income and wealth, education and health, and between different genders, generations, racial or ethnic groups, and different areas of the UK
• Identifying the groups most negatively affected by the pandemic
• Perceptions of income distributions, and their association with other forms of unequal outcomes (eg in health)
• Beliefs about the determinants of unequal outcomes and opportunities to get ahead in life
• Attitudes towards welfare, redistribution and the furlough scheme
• Beliefs around fairness and merit

The survey also contains a series of split samples, testing framing effects of questions around perceptions of inequalities, redistribution and fairness, as well as the Moral Foundations Questionnaire.