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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1989

Year: 1989
Module: Work Orientations
Variable: PYSHWELL

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 how well the employee does the job?

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 importance61
Ranked 2nd importance22
Ranked 3rd importance14
No rank given3

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Ranked 1st importance 64 58
Ranked 2nd importance 19 24
Ranked 3rd importance 14 14
No rank given 3 3

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Ranked 1st importance 59 56 67 63 62 61
Ranked 2nd importance 23 21 18 21 28 23
Ranked 3rd importance 15 21 12 15 5 14
No rank given 3 2 3 2 5 3

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Ranked 1st importance 59 63 56
Ranked 2nd importance 20 22 29
Ranked 3rd importance 17 12 13
No rank given 4 3 3

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