Thread by @ONS

This week’s Opinions and Lifestyle survey took place between 21-25 Oct, after the UK government introduced local #COVID19 alert levels in England on 12 Oct.

Responses from Wales came both before and after the Coronavirus “firebreak” rules on 23 Oct ow.ly/UAH350C6Uua

We asked adults in England which of the three local COVID alert levels they were in:

▪️ Nearly half (48%) said they were in tier 1
▪️ 37% in tier 2
▪️ 10% in tier 3

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Most adults in England (78%) said it was easy or very easy to find out about alert levels in their area.

Nearly 6 in 10 (57%) said television news was their main source of information, followed by the NHS COVID app (36%) and print or online news (35%) ow.ly/zjr550C6UzJ

Where people were living in areas with higher local restrictions in England, the amount of socialising with others indoors was lower, however the opposite was true for Scotland and Wales ow.ly/hK0h50C6UCy

For all areas with local restrictions, people were more likely to avoid physical contact with older people or other vulnerable people when outside the home ow.ly/RQXM50C6UO0

There were differences in the numbers of people working from home, too.

The proportion of working adults in England who worked from home was higher among those living in tier 2 (46%) and tier 3 (42%) than those in tier 1 (37%) ow.ly/yYkx50C6UUc

We’ve trebled our sample size for England this week, meaning in future we will be able to provide more local level information on the impact the pandemic is having across the country.

Read more about this in our blog post

https://twitter.com/ONSfocus/status/1322115927719161859