The main table includes primarily those polls which ask the same question as the 2014 referendum: "Should Scotland be an Independent Country?".
[a] Some organisations have chosen to commission polls that adopt the remain / leave formulation that was used in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.
SNP depute leader Keith Brown said in September 2019 that it was "a deliberate bid to confuse independence with Brexit".
[2] Following that judgment, the SNP reiterated its intention to campaign in the 2024 United Kingdom general election as a de facto independence referendum.
There is a wide variety of timeframes used on this topic Various companies have polled voters across the entire United Kingdom on various questions surrounding the issue of Scottish independence, from the standard Yes/No question as used in the 2014 referendum, to whether the Scottish government should be allowed to hold a second referendum.