Rating the efficacy of VAR in the English Premier League in 2019/20, by social grade
At the beginning of the 2019-2020 season, the English Premier League introduced Video Assistant Referees (commonly known as VAR) to all matches. This statistic shows the results of a representative survey of the British Public in relation to the English Premier League, presenting the opinions of British adults who watch the Premier League very or fairly frequently, rating how successful video assistant referee (VAR) technology has worked so far in the 2019-2020 season, where zero indicates a complete failure and ten indicates that it has worked perfectly. Responses have subsequently been categorized by the NRS social grade of the panelist.
The NRS social grades are a system of demographic classification used in the United Kingdom. The grades are grouped here into ABC1 and C2DE; these are taken to equate to middle class and working class, respectively.
Although the variation between responses of panelists within different social grades was not substantial the panelists within the ABC1 social grade appeared to rate the efficacy of VAR as more unsuccessful that the panelists within the C2DE social grade, with the 16 percent of male panelists providing responding with a rating of 4, compared to only 12 percent of female panelists.
The NRS social grades are a system of demographic classification used in the United Kingdom. The grades are grouped here into ABC1 and C2DE; these are taken to equate to middle class and working class, respectively.
Although the variation between responses of panelists within different social grades was not substantial the panelists within the ABC1 social grade appeared to rate the efficacy of VAR as more unsuccessful that the panelists within the C2DE social grade, with the 16 percent of male panelists providing responding with a rating of 4, compared to only 12 percent of female panelists.
