VA Barometer 2021/2022 in English

These are some of the results of the 2021/22 VA Barometer.

Women and men are interested in research in different fields

• Record numbers of Swedes have very high confidence in researchers
• A growing number consume research news on a weekly basis
• Podcasts are becoming an increasingly important channel for research news
• Swedes who know someone who works in research are more interested in research, consume research news more frequently, and are more likely to consider working as a researcher than those who don’t know someone who works in research.

The VA Barometer 2021/2022 is based on 1,016 telephone interviews with a representative sample of the Swedish population aged 16–74. It is the 20th Barometer survey since VA was founded in 2002.

Download a PDF version of the 2021/2022 VA Barometer
Download the interview questionnaire