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ESADE PUBLISHES A NEW INDEX TO MEASURE SOCIAL CONFIDENCE
Although a general climate of mistrust remains, Spaniards believe that their situation will improve in the future. This is one of the main conclusions take from the first Social Confidence Index of ESADE – “la Caixa” Social Work Programme, with the collaboration of the Agbar and Aquae Foundations, whose result was 72.3 out of 200 in 2014. This index measures people’s degree of social confidence, both collectively and individually, on a scale of 0 to 200. The index is the arithmetic average of the valuations of present and future expectations. In turn, these indicators, which last year totalled 70.2/200 and 74.4/200, respectively, correspond to the total confidence of nine social indicators: housing, the labour market, healthcare, education, social benefits, pensions, political institutions, economic and business institutions and the media. cial benefits, with 50.7/200, and political institutions, with 51.4/200. In breaking down the results between the present and future valuations, we found that most indicators increased when projected several months into the future, with the exception of housing. Noteworthy categories are economic institutions, moving from 60.1/200 (present) to 70.1/200 (future) and the labour market, whose confidence increased from 89.2/200 (present) to 98.6/200 (future), nearly 100.
100 BALANCE
150
Present and future confidence
Of the areas analysed, the one generating the most confidence is the media with 101.3/200; the labour market comes next, with 93.9/200, and then housing with 84.6/200. By contrast, those inspiring the least confidence in respondents were so0 MISTRUST
50
200 TRUST
53,0
FEB 14
72,3
SEP 14
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