In uncertain times, reliable data is more critical than ever

The findings from JPR’s 2024 national survey of the Jewish population of the UK have probably been the most impactful data we have ever generated. They have been widely shared across the UK and have headlined at several major international events, most notably the European Commission Civil Society Forum in Brussels, which was attended by hundreds of community and government representatives from all 27 EU countries, and the 50th annual meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Helsinki, attended by government representative and civil society organisations from all 56 affiliated countries.

In these ways, and many others, the answers you provide to JPR surveys are processed, analysed, presented, and discussed with thousands of key players working to support contemporary Jewish life and to understand and address the antisemitism that many of us are sensing and experiencing around us.

Your voice matters. JPR will make it count.

JPR is Europe’s leading specialist agency in surveying Jewish populations. Our team has been conducting high-quality surveys of Jews for thirty years and has rightly earned its reputation for undertaking academically robust and reliable research. We regularly win major competitive tenders from international bodies such as the European Commission and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, due to the quality of our work and the skills and dedication of our highly trained and experienced team.

It is not easy to generate accurate data about Jews in the UK. First, Jews are a very small minority – less than half a percent of the population of the UK – so very few national surveys contain large enough samples to analyse. The fact that Jews are so geographically skewed towards London and the surrounding area only exacerbates this problem. Second, Jews are difficult to define and reach. The line between who is and is not Jewish is sometimes blurred, and we need to work extremely hard to attract difficult-to-reach parts of the Jewish population, most notably the communally unattached, the strictly Orthodox and the young. Third, it is critical to include a diverse range of sociodemographic questions in any survey of Jews to determine whether the samples we build are representative. This requires genuine expertise to assess and weight them to ensure representativeness, and vanishingly few surveys of Jews succeed in this respect. The JPR team possesses all of these skills and consistently goes to great lengths to ensure that the findings we share accurately reflect Jewish opinion in this country.

So, if you are eligible, please take the time to participate. Your responses matter deeply. It doesn’t matter how engaged or unengaged you are in Jewish life or what your opinions are; we need to hear from you. And if possible, please encourage others to respond too, particularly any British Jews you know in the 16-30 age bracket, or the strictly Orthodox community, or those who are only loosely affiliated with the community, if at all. Everyone’s views matter, and the only way to ensure yours are taken into consideration is to take part now.