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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1994

Year: 1994

Module: Economic_Activity
Variable: PAYGAP


Question:
If respondent is an employee ...

Thinking of the highest and the lowest paid people in your place of work, how would you describe the gap between their pay, as far as you know?


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 %
Much too big a gap26
Too big27
About right39
Too small4
Much too small a gap1
Don't know3
Not answered0


Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Much too big a gap 27 26
Too big 25 29
About right 42 35
Too small 2 6
Much too small a gap 1 1
Don't know 3 3
Not answered 0 0


Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Much too big a gap 20 31 27 24 * *
Too big 30 23 23 38 * 0
About right 41 40 42 32 * *
Too small 6 2 5 3 * 0
Much too small a gap 0 1 1 0 * 0
Don't know 4 4 3 3 * *
Not answered 0 0 1 0 0 0
* indicates that the number of people in this category is
too small to allow percentages to be calculated.


Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Much too big a gap 33 24 23
Too big 27 27 25
About right 35 40 43
Too small 3 5 1
Much too small a gap 1 0 0
Don't know 2 4 6
Not answered 0 0 1


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