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  Social Inequality, British Social Attitudes, ISSP - 1999

Year: 1999
Module: Social Inequality
Variable: AHEAD7

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

Knowing the right people?

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 %
Essential11
Very important30
Fairly important42
Not very important12
Not important at all3
Can't choose1
Not answered2

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Essential 14 9
Very important 31 29
Fairly important 40 43
Not very important 10 14
Not important at all 3 3
Can't choose 0 1
Not answered 2 2

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Essential 15 14 9 8 15 11
Very important 25 28 29 31 33 31
Fairly important 44 44 47 40 35 40
Not very important 6 12 12 17 9 11
Not important at all 7 2 2 2 3 4
Can't choose 0 0 0 2 2 0
Not answered 3 2 1 1 4 4

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Essential 10 10 13
Very important 34 28 30
Fairly important 41 43 40
Not very important 7 13 12
Not important at all 3 2 4
Can't choose 4 1 0
Not answered 1 3 1

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