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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1990

Year: 1990
Module: Morality
Variable: EXMS

Question: What about a married person having sexual relations with someone other than his or her partner?

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 %
Always wrong75
Mostly wrong15
Sometimes wrong5
Rarely wrong1
Not wrong at all1
(Depends/varies)3
Don't know0
Not answered0

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Always wrong 71 78
Mostly wrong 17 13
Sometimes wrong 6 3
Rarely wrong 1 1
Not wrong at all 1 2
(depends/varies) 3 3
Don't know 1 0
Not answered 0 1

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Always wrong 73 63 74 77 81 85
Mostly wrong 15 20 16 13 12 10
Sometimes wrong 5 9 5 6 1 0
Rarely wrong 0 4 0 0 3 0
Not wrong at all 3 3 1 1 0 0
(depends/varies) 3 2 3 3 3 3
Don't know 0 0 0 0 1 1
Not answered 1 0 0 0 1 1

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Always wrong 78 78 55
Mostly wrong 13 15 22
Sometimes wrong 3 4 9
Rarely wrong 2 0 4
Not wrong at all 3 0 3
(depends/varies) 2 3 8
Don't know 0 0 0
Not answered 1 0 0

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