The Other Division in Northern Ireland: public attitudes to poverty, economic hardship and social security - Sabrina Bunyan, Mark Simpson, Goretti Horgan and Ann Marie Gray

The fieldwork for the survey took the two years prior to COVID-19, increasing place during the final quarter of 2021, just to 10 per cent of respondents since the before an Omicron wave of COVID-19 first COVID-19 lockdown. [...] Younger age groups benefits should guarantee; the second introduced by the UK Government in – those most likely to have children in is made up of distinct (though related) 2013 but affects few claimants in NI due the household – were most likely to say questions about fairness, reciprocity and the to mitigation measures introduced in they had had to turn the heating down or deservingness of social. [...] agree with the statement but even here the Almost half (49.3%) of respondents There is no doubting the views of figure was only 11.3 per cent), education agreed that it was ‘the responsibility of the respondents with regard to whether or not levels and those in paid work and not in government to reduce differences in income the NI Executive ‘is doing all that it can to paid work (where 61.9 in bot. [...] UUP supporters were more likely than those of the government was not doing all it can and DUP supporters were most likely to the other main political parties to agree to reduce poverty was shared with the agree with the statement but the numbers (69.4%) followed by SDLP supporters majority of respondents across age groups doing so was low (Table 3). [...] In the work commenced on the development of The data provides an important record of latter part of the last Assembly mandate, the an anti-poverty strategy 5 though this has public opinion at a time of precarity for Minister for Communities commissioned yet to be concluded.