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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2008

Variable Details

Variablefs50pen
LabelPeople 50s-retirement treated fairly by financial sector
Question text Financial services play an important part in all our lives - credit, hire purchase, loans, mortgages, insurance and so on. Thinking first of people in their fifties and up to retirement age, which of these two statements comes closest to your own view? Older people get as good a deal from this sector as anyone else.
Responses
1 Get as good a deal from this sector as anyone else 453
2 Treated less favourably because of age 698
8 Don't know 64
9 Refused/not answered 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationNorthern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2008
Interviewer InstructionsSHOWCARD
UniverseNorthern Irish adults;National;Adults aged 18 or over, living in private households in Northern Ireland during 2008
SamplingOne-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study
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