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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1989

Year: 1989
Module: Morality
Variable: EXIT1

Question: Suppose a person has a painful incurable disease. Do you think that doctoros should be allowed by law to end the patient's life if the patient requests it?

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 %
Yes55
No43
Don't know1
Not answered1

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Yes 62 50
No 37 48
Don't know 1 2
Not answered 1 1

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Yes 67 68 54 47 51 42
No 33 31 45 50 45 54
Don't know 0 1 0 0 4 2
Not answered 0 0 1 2 0 2

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Yes 44 59 78
No 54 39 22
Don't know 1 2 0
Not answered 2 1 0

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