Round up: AV, Libya and pensions

Here's a few nuggets I missed from polls over the last few days.

First YouGov have repeated a question they first asked back in 2010 on how well people understand electoral systems (or think they understand them!), including the Alternative Vote. Last year 68% of people said they had heard of AV, with 33% saying they also had a broad idea of how it worked. Last week YouGov repeated the question, now 84% of people have heard of AV (up 16 points) and 46% people said they had a broad understanding of how it works (up 13 points). This still means over half of people don't even think they understand what AV is.

Secondly there were some YouGov questions for the Sun earlier this week on intervention in Libya. People remain in favour of a no-fly zone (65% of people would support it, compared to 57% in an almost identical question a week ago), however people are still overwhelmingly opposed to either arming the rebels (61% opposed to 17% in support), or putting British troops into Libya. There was little difference in the strength of opposition to putting British troops in Libya to protect civilians from attack (opposed by 63% of people) and actively trying to remove Gaddafi (68% opposed).

Thirdly there was a significant shift in YouGov's weekly questions on the most important issues in yesterday's poll. The percentage of people choosing pensions as an important issue facing the country rose from 18% to 27%, and as an important issue facing them and their families, it rose to second place on 38% (compared to 31% a fortnight before). Presumably this is on the back of coverage of the Hutton Report into public sector pensions.