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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1991

Year: 1991
Module: Gender
Variable: SEXLAW

Question: There is a law in the UK against sex discrimination, that is against giving unfair preference to men - or to women - in employment, pay and so on. Do you generally support or oppose the idea of a law for this purpose?

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 %
Support88
Oppose10
Don't know1
Not answered1

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Support 88 89
Oppose 12 9
Don't know 1 1
Not answered 0 1

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Support 94 90 89 86 86 84
Oppose 6 9 10 13 13 13
Don't know 0 1 1 1 1 1
Not answered 0 0 1 0 0 2

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Support 91 85 96
Oppose 8 13 5
Don't know 1 1 0
Not answered 0 1 0

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