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  Social Inequality, British Social Attitudes, ISSP - 1999

Year: 1999
Module: Social Inequality
Variable: AHEAD1

Question: Please circle one number for each of these to show how important you think it is for getting ahead in life.

How important is coming from a wealthy family?

Index to tables on this page

  1. % of men and women
  2. % of people of different ages
  3. % of people of different religions.

Overall Results %
Essential3
Very important15
Fairly important31
Not very important30
Not important at all17
Can't choose2
Not answered1

Results for men and women
%
  MaleFemale
Essential 5 2
Very important 19 12
Fairly important 31 31
Not very important 27 32
Not important at all 14 19
Can't choose 2 2
Not answered 1 2

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
  18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Essential 3 5 3 2 4 4
Very important 10 9 16 18 18 17
Fairly important 42 32 29 34 29 28
Not very important 30 29 32 27 30 32
Not important at all 16 24 19 16 13 13
Can't choose 0 0 3 4 3 2
Not answered 0 2 0 0 2 4

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
  CatholicProtestantNo religion
Essential 3 3 4
Very important 18 14 17
Fairly important 37 30 31
Not very important 25 32 29
Not important at all 11 16 19
Can't choose 6 3 1
Not answered 1 2 1

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