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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1990

Year: 1990
Module: Morality
Variable: SEXLAW

Question: There is a law in the UK against sex discrimination, that is against giving unfair preference to men - or to women - in employment, pay and so on. Do you generally support or oppose the idea of a law for this purpose?

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 %
Support87
Oppose11
Don't know2
Not answered1

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Support 86 87
Oppose 12 10
Don't know 1 2
Not answered 1 1

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Support 92 89 94 82 86 80
Oppose 8 11 5 14 11 15
Don't know 0 1 1 3 3 3
Not answered 0 0 1 2 1 3

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Support 89 84 92
Oppose 9 13 8
Don't know 1 2 0
Not answered 1 1 0

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