The Perception of Poverty in Northern Ireland

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ID6327858
AuthorsJohn Ditch (corresponding author)
Year1984
Volume12
Issue2
Pages167-181
Publication date1984-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/030557384782628372
OpenAlexW2047679217
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This paper extracts data from the EEC’s public opinion survey entitled ‘The Perception of Poverty’ and presents previously unpublished data relating to Northern Ireland respondents. It suggests a relatively low awareness of the existence of poverty; a suspicion of state intervention to alleviate its causes and consequences; a tendency to attribute ‘need’ to individual or pathological rather than social causes. Differences in attitude and perception between Protestants and Catholics are also presented and discussed. Overall, respondents in Northern Ireland are closer in their attitudes to respondents in Great Britain than they are to respondents in the Republic of Ireland. The data relates to 312 cases in the province but because of the characteristics of the survey and the high non-response rate to certain questions (for example, voting intentions) the discussion is entirely descriptive. This is recognised to be a major deficiency in the paper, but it is believed that in the absence of any comparable data, and as an exercise in exploration rather than explanation it does provide an illustrative basis for subsequent work using a more satisfactory survey

Descriptive statistics · Ethnology · European Social Survey · General Social Survey · Intervention (counseling · Northern ireland · Perception · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Public opinion · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science · Survey data collection · The Republic · Voting · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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