Year: 2010
Module:Political_Attitudes
Variable:NIARUN3

After an Assembly election, our government is made up of ministers from all the different political parties. No single party ‘wins’ the election although the party which wins the most seats does get the most ministers.
People have different opinions about how well government in Northern Ireland works when there are ministers from all the different political parties forming the government. Here are some of the things that have been said, how much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements?
In Northern Ireland you don’t have a party or parties in ‘opposition’ and so you don’t get proper debates and hear criticisms of government decisions.

 

%

Strongly agree10
Agree34
Neither agree nor disagree29
Disagree16
Strongly disagree2
Can't choose9

 

Go to results for men and women, people of different ages and people of different religions.
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Results for men and women

%

 MaleFemale
Strongly agree 14 7
Agree 38 30
Neither agree nor disagree 22 35
Disagree 17 15
Strongly disagree 2 2
Can't choose 7 11

  

 

Results for people of different ages

%

 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Strongly agree 12 8 12 10 9 10
Agree 26 25 23 36 45 47
Neither agree nor disagree 28 42 38 28 22 14
Disagree 18 11 16 17 15 20
Strongly disagree 4 3 3 1 1 1
Can't choose 12 12 9 7 8 9

 

  

Results for people of different religions

%

 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Strongly agree 10 9 13
Agree 30 37 34
Neither agree nor disagree 30 28 29
Disagree 18 15 14
Strongly disagree 3 1 2
Can't choose 9 10 9

 

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