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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1996

Year: 1996
Module: Political Trust
Variable: GOVCOMP

Question: Please choose a phrase from this card to say how much you agree or disagree with the following statement.
Sometimes politics and government seem so complicated that a person like me cannot really understand what is going on.

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 %
Agree srongly26
Agree51
Neither agree nor disagree7
Disagree14
Disagree trongly1
Don't know1
Not answered0

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Agree srongly 23 29
Agree 47 53
Neither agree nor disagree 6 8
Disagree 21 8
Disagree trongly 2 1
Don't know 1 1
Not answered 0 0

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Agree srongly 19 25 22 24 31 38
Agree 57 53 49 49 53 45
Neither agree nor disagree 6 8 9 4 8 8
Disagree 16 12 20 19 9 7
Disagree trongly 2 2 1 2 0 0
Don't know 1 0 0 2 0 1
Not answered 0 0 0 0 0 2

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Agree srongly 27 25 29
Agree 51 54 36
Neither agree nor disagree 8 6 6
Disagree 10 13 29
Disagree trongly 2 1 0
Don't know 1 0 1
Not answered 0 0 0

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