Dating among 16-year olds in Northern Ireland - Catherine McNamee Introduction

For example, 9% just under one in three respondents of those living in a farm or home in the YLT respondents who reported having had (33%) dating someone from a different country dated someone from a different a romantic partner were additionally asked religion. [...] Religious background and Discussion and conclusion home in the country, suggests these national identity communities may have stronger in-group A slight majority of 16-years olds in dating preferences, fewer opportunities Figure 1 shows that those that reported Northern Ireland reported having had a to interact with groups different from having no religion showed the highest boyfriend or girlfrien. [...] While ethnicity can be date people different from themselves meanwhile reported the lowest levels of interpreted in a number of ways, the due to smaller dating pools and more out-group dating for religious background relatively small percentage (3.4%) of the open perspectives (see Luo, 2017). [...] The (19%) and financial background (42%), Northern Irish population belonging to YLT survey results reflect this, with those while Protestant young people reported ethnic minority groups (NISRA, 2022) is having LGBTQ+ identities reporting the lowest levels of out-group dating for likely to be a factor for the small number higher levels of out-group dating on ethnicity (12%) and national identity (. [...] • Those living in an area described as a farm or home in the country are the least likely to have had a boyfriend/girlfriend and, among those that have dated, are the least likely to date someone having different background characteristics.