Attitudes to Immigration: A view from Scotland

Key Findings

1. A greater proportion of the Scottish public want immigration to be increased (38%)rather than decreased (28%), although those wanting an increase mainly support a modest increase, while those wanting immigration to decrease want it to be reduced ‘a lot’. A sizeable proportion want immigration to ‘remain the same as it is’ (34%).
2. The impacts of immigration are seen as positive by the majority of people in
   Scotland. This is true of impacts at both Scotland (59%) and local area level (48%).
3. People in Scotland have a strong preference for labour migrants to have the option
   to remain in Scotland for the longer term ‘to settle and integrate’ (66%)