NI Life and Times Survey

Year: 2007
Module: Public Services
Variable: SCHIMP

And here are some priorities for our schools. Which do you think it is most important for them to achieve?

	%
Make sure all children, however able they are, do the best they can	69
Make sure that parents have a lot of choice about the kind of school their child goes to	6
Get the number of children who leave school with no qualifications down as low as possible	9
Make sure that children from poor backgrounds do as well as well as those from better off backgrounds	11
Can't choose	5

Go to results for men and women, people of different ages and people of different religions.
Go to technical notes

Results for men and women

	%
	Male	Female
Make sure all children, however able they are, do the best they can	72	67
Make sure that parents have a lot of choice about the kind of school their child goes to	7	4
Get the number of children who leave school with no qualifications down as low as possible	7	11
Make sure that children from poor backgrounds do as well as well as those from better off backgrounds	9	13
Can't choose	5	5

Results for people of different ages

	%
	18-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65+
Make sure all children, however able they are, do the best they can	67	71	71	72	71	64
Make sure that parents have a lot of choice about the kind of school their child goes to	6	5	6	6	4	8
Get the number of children who leave school with no qualifications down as low as possible	15	8	10	9	8	6
Make sure that children from poor backgrounds do as well as well as those from better off backgrounds	7	13	9	11	10	16
Can't choose	5	5	5	3	7	6

Results for people of different religions

%

Catholic Protestant No religion

Make sure all children, however able they are, do the best they can 67 72 64
Make sure that parents have a lot of choice about the kind of school their child goes to 4 6 10
Get the number of children who leave school with no qualifications down as low as possible 9 9 10
Make sure that children from poor backgrounds do as well as well as those from better off backgrounds 15 9 11
Can't choose 6 4 5

| NILT Homepage | Module Listing | Variable Index |

	%
	Catholic	Protestant	No religion
Make sure all children, however able they are, do the best they can	67	72	64
Make sure that parents have a lot of choice about the kind of school their child goes to	4	6	10
Get the number of children who leave school with no qualifications down as low as possible	9	9	10
Make sure that children from poor backgrounds do as well as well as those from better off backgrounds	15	9	11
Can't choose	6	4	5