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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1989

Year: 1989
Module: Work Orientations
Variable: PYSHEXP

Question: Think of two people doing the same kind of work. What do you personally think should be important in deciding how much to pay them.
Looking at the things below, please write '1' in the box next to the thing you think should be most important. Then write '2' next to the thing you think shold be next most important. And '3' next to the thing you think should be third most important.
In deciding on pay for two people doing the same kind of work, how important should be the experience of the employee in doing the work?

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 %
Ranked 1st importance18
Ranked 2nd importance54
Ranked 3rd importance25
No rank given3

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Ranked 1st importance 17 19
Ranked 2nd importance 52 56
Ranked 3rd importance 27 24
No rank given 4 2

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Ranked 1st importance 20 21 15 19 16 18
Ranked 2nd importance 43 59 56 64 49 49
Ranked 3rd importance 34 19 25 16 32 29
No rank given 4 1 5 1 3 4

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Ranked 1st importance 16 19 21
Ranked 2nd importance 53 54 50
Ranked 3rd importance 25 25 28
No rank given 5 2 1

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