Do you know your neighbours?
You asked. We polled. And it turns out 77% of you know your neighbours.
Scotland comes out highest with 80% of people knowing their neighbours. The lowest is the South-East with 75%.
If you live in a house, regardless of town or rural area, 80% of you know your neighbours, the figure drops to 75% if you're in a flat.
64% of 18-24 year-olds know their neighbours, this number climbs as people age and by 55, the figure is 88%.
Men are less likely to say they know their neighbours than women. The rich say they are closer to their neighbours than the less well-off.
The full results in the PDF file below and you can also read the pollster question as it was asked to those who took part.
PDF file: Neighbours survey - results in full (115 KB)
ICM interviewed a random sample of 1,002 adults aged 18+ by telephone 15 -17 May 2009. The results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. Percentages may not add to 100 because of rounding.
ICM is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules. Further information at www.icmresearch.co.uk
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So when I listened to the podcast and you read out the summary results, I gave you the benefit of the doubt. England, Wales, Scotland ... no Northern Ireland. Umm.
But looking through the survey PDF and the regional results column, no mention of little NI.
Did the UK's big Public Service Broadcaster omit to survey anyone from the million and a half of us over in this corner? Around about 3% of your listeners if we were equally spread across the UK.
> ICM interviewed a random sample of 1,002 adults aged 18+ by telephone 15 -17 May 2009.
If it had been a face-to-face survey, there might have been an excuse of cost. But phone numbers over here are on the same network, the same length and format as the rest of the UK. Same cost to make them ring too! After years of being all-too-often absent from on-screen maps illustrating government statistics and trends on news reports, big strides of improvement have been made and NI has started to be included more naturally in reporting and analysis.
So go on - explain next week why the survey was GB and not UK. Explain how you would have explained it to Anne Dean (who came up with the idea for the question) if she'd won but had lived in Antrim or Strabane!
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I thought this was a great article, and so I was delighted, the next day, to stumble on an ideal way of meeting male neighbours. I suspect it works better if you are female, but I could be wrong. Simply spend your Sunday morning trying to fix your bike outside. It is beyond the will of man to resist giving advice on such matters.. so tantalising!
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alaninbelfast - I consulted ICM. National polls tend not to include Northern Ireland. The pollsters say that since Northern Ireland contains 3% of the population, they would have to approach just 30 people. ICM says the data gathered from such a small group would be almost impossible to turn into reliable results.
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Just listened to the article about Email footers, what caught my ear (whilst working at my PC) was the words 'Paperless Office', and the assertion that it had 'just not happened', true, well - not yet, my own company is actually called 'The Paperless Office Ltd', see www.the-paperless-office.com, we have been building technology to enable the paper FREE office now for some years, it is not easy due to the entrenched way people work, for exmaple your reporter did not question why any one actually prints an email at all these days. It is an interesting subject, and complex footers is simply the legal eagles covering their backs , it is questionable whether a judge would take any notice of their content. Either way, looking ahead, i think offices will become paperless - when we stop working in offices! Dave
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The figure seems quite low. BBC Breakfast did a survey last year which found that 86% had said hello to at least one person in their street in the past seven days. Also last year, the Full of Life survey found 93% knew neighbours well enough to say hello to or spend time with them.
There's a short summary of some comparable data here:
http://neighbourhoods.typepad.com/neighbourhoods/2008/08/five-per-cent-h.html
Kevin Harris
Neighbourhoods blog
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Any new resident (yes, even the students) within 100 metres of where I live is visited by me and my children within one week of their arrival. They are welcomed with a card, loaf of Turkish bread (from corner deli) and details of local life: wheelie bin/recycle days, phone number of milkman, window cleaner and copy of community centre newsletter.
All probably very unBritish but the consequence is a cohesive lively community where we share sugar, lawn mowers, babysitters - and hold great parties. Despite police exhortations we have no need for a formal regimented Neighbourhood Watch. We watch out for each other already.
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how can anyone protest and be worried about having their DNA kept on record At least it cant be used to steal your identity or enter your bank account or expose your private life. On the other hand the proposed ID cards would hold,so they say, fortyseven pieces of information.all very stealable and totally unnecessary. There is more good to come out of DNA records ie recent convictions or murders of many years ago being the proof of the pudding.
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@ryandilley Thanks for checking! To cover Wales, ICM sample 50 people (5% of UK population) and manage to stand over the statistical results. So they'd only have to oversample by 20 people in NI to equal the Welsh sample size and be able to report. While ICM's weekly "national" survey may omit NI as a matter of course, lots of other surveys do manage to include us and other smaller areas through oversampling. But it's an interesting issue.
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