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BBC News
4 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Opinions and lifestyle survey launched in Jersey
An annual survey set up to study Jersey islanders' experiences and views on certain topics has been government said Statistics Jersey's 2025 Opinions and Lifestyle Survey would be sent to 4,200 randomly selected households with the aim of helping to plan and deliver public services in the person in the household who has their birthday next and is aged over 16 would be asked to complete the survey online to give a good range of ages for those responding, the government added paper copies of the survey were also available and anyone selected to complete it had until 20 June to fill out the form. "The results of the survey will be published later this year," the government said.
BBC News
22-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Men urged to be 'allies' to combat Jersey's gender pay gap
Men have been invited to "unite" with women at a roundtable discussion on how to tackle the gender pay gap in Mourant from Mind the Gap - a group of female business leaders advocating for gender parity - said eight men were already signed-up to the event, which would focus on "ally-ship". At the heart of talks will be the 6.3% average pay gap between men and women, she said, with men earning on average £2 more than women per hour, according to a Statistics Jersey report published in March."We really believe that narrowing the gap benefits both men and women and we are only going to speak from a position of power if we are united," said Ms Mourant. The gender pay gap is widest in the finance and information sectors where men get paid more than 20% extra, according to Statistics gap also tends to widen as workers get older, peaking in people's 50s, according to the report. Ms Mourant said: "We have been told by male colleagues that they don't really know how to support us so we are delivering a roundtable about how best we can work together."She said the goal was to "hear experiences" and gain insights into what people could do to "move forward and let go of biases which are deeply ingrained in us as a society".She said the subject was "contentious" adding: "Most people will assume men and women can't get paid differently for doing the same job."That isn't the gender pay gap. We're talking about the average, the difference in earnings between men and women." She said reasons given for this gap included taking maternity time or a lack of said there was also a school of thought that women "lacked confidence" but that this was a "debunked myth"."If we start drilling down into different sectors and age ranges that disparity becomes absolutely wider."For us, this is all about bringing men into the conversation because we know we can't make change unless all of us are moving in the same direction."
BBC News
25-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Inflation falls to 2.3% in Jersey
New figures show although prices in Jersey have continued to rise, the annual rate of inflation has decreased since the end of last latest inflation figures from Statistics Jersey show prices rose by 2.3% in the last quarter, less than the 2.5% rise at the end of last year meaning inflation has decreased by 0.2 percentage points (pp).The data showed prices in most groups had increased similarly to or less than those during services was the price group that made the largest contribution to the annual rate of inflation, contributing 0.6pp to the rate, Statistics Jersey said. The All Items Retail Prices Index measures the change from quarter to quarter in the price of the goods and services purchased by an average household in Jersey.
BBC News
27-03-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Jersey pupils impacted by low self-esteem levels
More than a quarter of young people in Jersey have lower levels of self-esteem, according to a Jersey said the results from its 2024 Jersey Children and Young People's Survey, filled out by school pupils in years 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12, showed 26% classed themselves as having low or medium-low said girls worried more than boys in each year group and school-related issues were the main concerns for survey's results also reported 74% of the 4,360 children who took part described their health as good or very good and 90% enjoyed spending time with their parents or carers, Statistics Jersey added. Ian Cope, chief statistician of Jersey, thanked the children and young people who took part in the survey."By doing so, they have enabled the production of what I hope will prove to be an extremely valuable report which will enable better services for the children and young people of Jersey," he said. School work concerns The survey suggested the most common worries for primary school children were school tests and school work, scoring 26% and 24% people think of you (22%) and friendships (19%) were the next biggest concerns for primary school secondary school students, work load was the biggest concern with 46% saying they worried about it "often or every day".School tests (45%), what people thought of them (39%), and the way they looked (36%) were the next three highest concerns. Social media use E-safety was one of the areas Statistics Jersey asked participants about, with 59% saying they had a social media account in their own results showed 37% of young people had sent messages to a stranger online and 36% of girls felt pressured to look or appear a certain way on social questions included how many had smoked cigarettes, used vapes, drunk alcohol or taken Jersey said 81% of Year 10s and 59% of Year 12s said they had never smoked, while 60% of people in the latter group had tried an e-cigarette with 25% saying they vaped added 55% of young people said they had never consumed alcohol and 21% of Year 12s had used herbal cannabis.
