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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes - 1995

Year: 1995

Module: Education
Variable: SKILLIMP


Question:
Please tick one box to show how much you agree or disagree that when recruiting school-leavers, employers pay too much attention to practical skills and training, and too little to exam results.


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 %
Strongly agree5
Agree20
Neither agree nor disagree25
Disagree35
Strongly disagree7
Can't choose6
Not answered1


Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Strongly agree 4 6
Agree 19 21
Neither agree nor disagree 25 24
Disagree 37 34
Strongly disagree 7 7
Can't choose 6 6
Not answered 1 1


Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Strongly agree 2 4 4 7 10 6
Agree 23 20 18 19 14 26
Neither agree nor disagree 31 28 24 19 29 21
Disagree 32 36 44 38 33 24
Strongly disagree 10 8 4 13 7 2
Can't choose 2 4 6 5 3 19
Not answered 1 0 0 0 4 3


Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Strongly agree 5 6 *
Agree 20 21 *
Neither agree nor disagree 27 21 *
Disagree 34 36 *
Strongly disagree 6 9 *
Can't choose 7 7 *
Not answered 1 1 0
* indicates that the number of people in this category is
too small to allow percentages to be calculated.


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