Evidence Exchange of LGB&T Statistics
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One tenth of respondents in a Northern Irish survey felt LGB people were treated unfairly at work.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Employment
Almost a quarter of all respondents to a Northern Irish survey felt that LGB people are treated unfairly in Northern Ireland.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
Over a third of all heterosexual respondents in a Northern Irish survey would mind having an Eastern European migrant worker as an in-law, while 24% would mind having an LGB in-law.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
35% of all respondents in a Northern Irish survey would mind working with a transgender person, while 19% would mind working with an LGB person.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Employment
54% of all heterosexual people in a Northern Irish survey would mind having a traveller as a neighbour, while 37% would mind having an LGB neighbour.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
Two Fifths of all heterosexual respondents in a Northern Irish survey would mind having a transgender neighbour, while 21% would mind having an LGB neighbour.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
62 % of male respondents in a Northern Irish survey would mind their relative having a same sex relationship compared with two fifths of female respondents.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
Half of all male respondents in a Northern Irish survey were likely to mind having a transgender neighbour compared to a third of female respondents.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
Over two fifths of male respondents in a Northern Irish survey would mind working with a LGB person compared to 26% of female respondents
Topics:
Discrimination:
Employment
42% of all respondents in a 2011 Northern Irish survey held a negative attitude to a relative having a same sex relationship than in a similar survey in 2008 in which 35% held this view.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
More than two fifths of all respondents in a Northern Irish survey would mind if a relative was in a close relationship with an LGB person.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
Over a quarter of all respondents in a Northern Irish Survey would mind having an LGB neighbour.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
1 in 3 respondents in a Northern Irish survey would mind having to work with a transgender person.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other, Employment
More than half of all respondents in a Northern Irish survey would mind having a transgender person as an in-law.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
Two fifths of all respondents in a Northern Irish survey would mind having a transgender neighbour.
Topics:
Legal rights:
Housing
Discrimination:
Other
20% of respondents to a Northern Irish survey who had no educational qualifications, viewed LGB people negatively.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other, Education
20% of male respondents to a Northern Irish survey, reported negative views of LGB people.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
Over a quarter of all respondents to a Northern Irish survey felt neutral towards LGB people.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
In 2011, 15% of all respondents to a Northern Irish survey felt negatively towards LGB people which was a decline from 21% who had felt this in 2008.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other
3 in 5 of all respondents to a Northern Irish survey felt positive about LGB people in 2011, the same amount as those who were surveyed in 2008.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Other