An Garda Síochána Public Attitudes Survey 2021

Abstract

Between July and December 2021, Behaviour and Attitudes (B&A), an independent market research company, conducted fieldwork for An Garda Síochána's Public Attitudes Survey (PAS), 2021. This followed a break in series in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, during which time face-to-face interviewing was not possible and an online survey was carried out instead. As the 2020 results are not comparable to the in-person PAS, results from 2021 are compared to the previous three survey sweeps between 2017 and 2019. This report presents the findings from the 2021 survey, during which 7,656 adults, aged 18 years and older, were surveyed on a wide range of crime and policing issues in the context of Ireland.