Dr. Muhammad Waqas and Dr. Muhammad Khawar
Executive Summary
This report uses 350,000 responses of two longitudinal British household surveys and systematically analyses detailed sets of ten demographic characteristics of participants to analyse the relevance of working-class voices to the public policy. The report focuses on two key areas, i.e., the perception of working-class about the public policymaking systems; and inclusion of their voices to the public
policy.
Educated individuals and high-income earners have positive perception of the system and they consider their voice included in the public policy.
Their perception and belief have become stronger between the surveys.
Additionally, some demographic groups (widowed, more kids, and two regions South-East & South-West) have positive perception of the system but they do not consider their voices included in the public policy.
The formal and consistent engagement involved in education and work/business may have resulted in positive outcome from educated and high-income earners.
Further time-series analysis is needed:
- To analyse the change in participants responses over time
- To study the change in participants positive perception to negative views
- To explore the procedures that may have resulted in positive outcomes for educated and
- high-income earners
