Scottish Social Attitudes 2025: attitudes to discrimination and positive action
Findings from the 2025 Scottish Social Attitudes survey on discrimination and positive action. It explores attitudes to prejudice, diversity and immigration, trends over time, and identifies groups most at risk, alongside mixed public views on equality and support for positive action in Scotland.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank our NatCen colleagues for their expertise throughout the project: BSA colleagues Alex Scholes, Chujan Sivathasan, Georgie Morton and Katy Bailey; statisticians Mark Todd and Alina Carabat; programmers Pamela Ritchie and Saroj Adal; data manager Rachel Pollard and Technical Data Director Migle Aleksejunaite and Data Operations led by Pete Baker. Also thank you to our colleagues in the Telephone Unit, led by Sonia Shirvington who provided invaluable support to the research team throughout the project as did Lesley Birse at ScotCen.
The research team would like to express their gratitude to all those who participated in the survey.
Finally, we greatly appreciate the support and guidance given to us by the Scottish Government.
This report was written by The Scottish Centre for Social Research presenting the findings from this module of questions asked on the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2025. The views expressed in this report are those of the researchers and do not necessarily represent those of the Scottish Government or Scottish Ministers.
Authors
Stephen Hinchliffe, Susan Reid, Sophie Birtwistle, Eleanor Holman, Lucy Dean and Paul Bradshaw.
Contact
Email: socialresearch@gov.scot