NI Life and Times Survey

Year: 2009
Module:Minority_Ethnic_People
Variable:MIGWRK2

The next few questions are about migrant workers, that is, people who come from other countries to work in Northern Ireland, and may or may not stay very long here. There are different opinions about migrant workers in Northern Ireland. How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?
Migrant workers take jobs away from people who were born in Northern Ireland .

	%
Strongly agree	12
Agree	30
Neither agree nor disagree	20
Disagree	31
Strongly disagree	7
Don't know	0

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

	%
	Male	Female
Strongly agree	14	11
Agree	31	29
Neither agree nor disagree	18	22
Disagree	30	32
Strongly disagree	7	7
Don't know	0	0

Results for people of different ages

	%
	18-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65+
Strongly agree	13	14	14	11	10	11
Agree	32	35	26	27	25	34
Neither agree nor disagree	27	11	23	19	25	19
Disagree	29	31	31	34	28	31
Strongly disagree	0	9	6	8	11	4
Don't know	0	0	0	0	1	1

Results for people of different religions

%

Catholic Protestant No religion

Strongly agree 9 16 10
Agree 28 32 31
Neither agree nor disagree 20 22 13
Disagree 34 26 35
Strongly disagree 9 4 12
Don't know 0 1 0

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