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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1991

Year: 1991
Module: Gender
Variable: SEXROLE

Question: How much do you agree or disagree that a husband's job is to earn then money; the wife's job is to look after the home and family?

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 %
Strongly agree15
Agree20
Neither agree nor disagree20
Disagree27
Strongly disagree16
Can't choose1
Not answered1

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Strongly agree 15 15
Agree 21 20
Neither agree nor disagree 19 21
Disagree 31 24
Strongly disagree 12 18
Can't choose 1 1
Not answered 1 1

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Strongly agree 6 6 11 17 21 35
Agree 9 14 16 26 20 41
Neither agree nor disagree 20 27 20 20 23 10
Disagree 35 32 31 24 28 12
Strongly disagree 31 20 20 10 7 0
Can't choose 0 1 1 0 1 1
Not answered 0 1 1 3 0 1

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Strongly agree 16 15 12
Agree 16 25 9
Neither agree nor disagree 14 22 33
Disagree 32 25 22
Strongly disagree 20 12 21
Can't choose 1 0 1
Not answered 0 1 2

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