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Northern Ireland Public Attitudes Update
The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey 2006 results were published recently. Just thought I'd add the results to the table I created last year to look at how the responses might be trending.
2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | ||
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Northern Irelands Future | ||||||||||
Remain in UK | 54% | 58% | 59% | 55% | 55% | 50% | 60% | 56% | 57% | |
Unify with Eire | 30% | 23% | 22% | 24% | 22% | 28% | 17% | 21% | 22% | |
Independence | 3% | 7% | 11% | 7% | 7% | 6% | 9% | 11% | 6% | |
Nationality | ||||||||||
British | 39% | 39% | 47% | 41% | 45% | 45% | 49% | 45% | 41% | |
Irish | 28% | 28% | 27% | 27% | 28% | 30% | 22% | 29% | 27% | |
Northern Irish | 26% | 27% | 21% | 24% | 19% | 27% | 20% | 19% | 23% |
Follow up:
While some have been positively wetting themselves over the figures, frankly I don't think there's been enough of a change to make it newsworthy. Disappointed with the all time low result for independence, and the numbers for unification with the Republic seem quite high, but other than that I think we'll have to wait until next year to tell if there's been any serious change.