NI Life and Times Survey

Year: 2010
Module:Social Care for Older People
Variable:MEANSPC

Here are some of the different ways that residential care might be paid for in the future. How fair are each of these?
Care is means-tested so that those who cannot afford to pay anything get free personal care and those who can afford to pay do pay.

	%
Very fair	8
Quite fair	32
Neither fair nor unfair	14
Quite unfair	23
Very unfair	21
Don't know	1

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

	%
	Male	Female
Very fair	9	8
Quite fair	32	32
Neither fair nor unfair	14	15
Quite unfair	21	25
Very unfair	24	19
Don't know	1	1

Results for people of different ages

	%
	18-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65+
Very fair	8	12	5	9	7	8
Quite fair	37	37	26	36	28	33
Neither fair nor unfair	16	17	16	10	15	13
Quite unfair	23	20	24	21	27	25
Very unfair	16	14	28	23	22	22
Don't know	1	1	1	1	1	0

Results for people of different religions

%

Catholic Protestant No religion

Very fair 9 7 11
Quite fair 31 31 42
Neither fair nor unfair 16 13 13
Quite unfair 22 27 14
Very unfair 22 22 20
Don't know 1 1 0

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