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This is just a quick over view of the responses we received to the online survey we held between 8th June and 7th July 2004 to try and find out a bit about who visits or uses the Women in London web site as well as those we email two or three times a year.
About You:
- 98% women
70% Londoners
59% in your 20s and 30s
74% White
68% heterosexual
How you spend your time on an average weekday:
- 85% at work - some over 8 hours a day
83% watching / listening to TV / Radio for 1 to 2 hours
76% travelling up to 2 hours a day
Issues that have a Negative Impact on You:
- 59% agree that sexism is the most negative issue for you as an individual
45% feel that public transport is your next most negative experience
Issues that have a Negative Impact on Society as a Whole:
- 86% agree that Racism is having the biggest negative impact on society as a whole
85% agree that it is the War in Iraq
82% Third World Debt
80% Sexual Violence
78% Crime
78% Sexism
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Whether you feel you can influence issues through Campaigns:
- 67% homophobia
67% sexism
66% the environment
61% racism
60% sexual violence
Whether you feel you can influence issues through Political Parties:
- 63% environmental issues
61% affordable / appropriate childcare options
Whether you feel you can influence issues through the Media:
- 53% ageism
53% racism
51% sexism
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Which Political Party do you think has the best analysis / understanding of issues:
- On a majority of issues you do not think any party has a good analysis / understanding.
- * Only the Green Party has any majority support, but for only two issues:
- 79% the environment
68% farming / agriculture
- * The Labour Party has less than 50% support for their analysis on any issue, but
- 49% agree with their affordable / appropriate childcare options
48% their understanding of fear of violence at home
48% health service
- * The Liberal Party has your support on only one issue:
- 38% University Education
- * The Respect Party
- 27% the War in Iraq - but 30% do not support any party on this issue
Did you Vote?
- 44% say you voted on 10th June
37% voted at your last local elections
40% at the last General Election
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Your involvement with Political Parties since the last General election:
- This question had the lowest number of responses of the survey. So figures as % of the total number of responses are very small. Since the last general election:
- * Labour Party:
- Resigned From: 6% - Joined: 2% - Might Join: 1%
- * Conservative Party:
- Resigned From: 1% - Joined: 0.5% - Might Join: 0%
- * Liberal Party:
- Resigned From: 1% - Joined: 1% - Might Join: 3%
- * Green Party:
- Resigned From: 1% - Joined: 0.5% - Might Join: 7%
- * Respect Party:
- Resigned From: 0% - Joined: 0.5% - Might Join: 2.4%
- * Socialist Party:
- Resigned From: 0.5% - Joined: 0% - Might Join: 1.9%
Would / do any of the following make you more likely to use your vote?
- Different methods of voting would make little or no difference as to whether you would vote, eg Postal Voting, Internet Voting, Holding Elections over a Weekend, although some of you think having Polling Booths at Supermarkets, Leisure Centres, Stations etc., would make a bit of a difference as to whether you would vote
However, if the result of your vote had a different outcome, it would definitely and / or make quite a lot of difference as to whether you would vote:
- * If MPs/Councillors voted in line with constituents not Party:
- Definitely: 24% - Quite a Lot: 23% - Total: 47%
- * Proportional Representation:
- Definitely: 26% - Quite a Lot: 18% - Total: 44%
- * If there was a 'Women's Party:
- Definitely: 28% - Quite a Lot: 14% - Total: 42%
- * Have the option 'None of the Above:
- Definitely: 22% - Quite a Lot: 6% - Total: 28%
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Do you have access to the internet:
- Over 80% of you have access to the internet at work and at home, with Libraries being the public place where most others gain access to the internet
Other issues that effect you negatively:
- * About a third of survey respondents answered this question and of those:
- 11% re-iterated that it is Sexism in its various forms that most negatively effects you
7% the high cost of living
6% the lack of community / sense of community
Other issues that you think negatively affect society as a whole:
- * About 40% of survey respondents answered this question and of those:
- 13% say it is a lack of values that is having the biggest negative affect on society as a whole, eg. greed, materialism, credit-based society, selfishness, lack of courtesy
12% say it is sexism in its different forms, but particularly male violence towards women
9% say it is about the loss of community
7% say it is different forms of bigotry
6% say it is the political system / parties eg 'not voter apathy - feeling that there's no-one to vote for'
Note: The list of 'issues' we used in the survey are the ones the media was highlighting at the time, not necessarily the ones that have the most significance in terms of every day life from most of us. We have listed them on a separate page.
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These are only the 'crude' majority figures from the survey, and we hope to be able to properly present the more complex information the responses supply, such as whether age or ethnic identity make any difference to what you think.
In the meantime we would like to thank all those who took part.
If you have any initial reactions to these summary figures, or any other questions please do get in touch.
If you quote from or use any figures from this summary please acknowledge the source.
With thanks
Women in London
Go to the list of 'issues' used in the survey
Download the Survey Summary Results as a Word Document
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