NI Life and Times Survey

Year: 2015
Module: Data_Sharing_and Privacy
Variable: LINK3

And suppose researchers wanted to find out if babies born prematurely did less well at school so that in future such children should automatically be considered for extra help in the classroom. If the people who keep hospital records link them to school records and pass the researchers this data without names or addresses or other identifiers then the researchers can look at the patterns in the data. Do you think that this should be allowed?

	%
Yes definitely	36
Yes probably	36
No probably not	10
No definitely not	10
Other	0
Don't know	7

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Results for men and women

	%
	Male	Female
Yes definitely	36	35
Yes probably	37	36
No probably not	9	11
No definitely not	9	11
Other	0	0
Don't know	7	7

Results for people of different ages

	%
	18-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65+
Yes definitely	40	35	37	32	39	35
Yes probably	28	40	33	43	35	36
No probably not	14	8	17	10	7	9
No definitely not	13	8	7	12	10	10
Other	2	0	0	0	0	0
Don't know	3	9	6	3	10	10

Results for people of different religions

	%
	Catholic	Protestant	No religion
Yes definitely	40	34	33
Yes probably	31	42	34
No probably not	9	9	17
No definitely not	12	10	7
Other	0	0	0
Don't know	7	5	9

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