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  Ageism and Ageing,Republic of Ireland - 2008

Year: 2008
Module: Attitudes_to_Older_People
Variable: TRNPLUMB

Question: Suppose there was just one place left on an apprenticeship course to train plumbers. One applicant is a 16 year old boy who has just left school and the other is a 50 year old man who has just been made redundant and wants to retrain. If you were in charge of the course, which one would you prefer to offer the place to?

Index to tables on this page

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

Overall Results %
Younger man48
Older man25
(It depends)23
OTHER0
Don't know4

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Younger man 52 44
Older man 21 28
(it depends) 25 22
Other 0 0
Don't know 2 5

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Younger man 63 47 44 41 47 46
Older man 14 20 32 26 27 29
(it depends) 16 28 19 29 24 22
Other 2 0 0 0 0 0
Don't know 5 5 5 4 2 3

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