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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1996

Year: 1996
Module: Political Trust
Variable: DEFNSCRT

Question: Do you think that the government should have the right to keep its defence plans secret or do you think the public should normally have the right to know what they are?

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 %
Government should have the right to keep them secret46
Public should normally have the right to know what they are50
Don't know3
Not answered1

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Government should have the right to keep them secret 50 44
Public should normally have the right to know what they are 48 52
Don't know 3 4
Not answered 1 0

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Government should have the right to keep them secret 43 39 47 56 52 42
Public should normally have the right to know what they are 53 59 47 43 45 50
Don't know 4 2 5 1 4 5
Not answered 0 0 0 0 0 3

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Government should have the right to keep them secret 29 62 36
Public should normally have the right to know what they are 67 35 61
Don't know 3 3 3
Not answered 0 0 0

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