Annex I: Socio-demographic and other characteristics considered in the analysis

• Author: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (EU body or agency)
• Pages: 114-116

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x I: Socio-demographic

and other characteristics

considered in the analysis

This report examines the survey results with respect to the following socio-

demographic characteristics. Each question apart from those about gender

and age allowed respondents to answer ‘don’t know’ or ‘prefer not to say’.

These answers are not shown when results are disaggregated by socio-

demographic characteristics, because so few respondents selected them.

GENDER

Respondents were asked whether they would describe themselves as male

or female, or in another way. In total, 32 respondents in the EU-27, United

Kingdom and North Macedonia selected the answer ‘in another way’ (from

zero to six respondents per country), making this group too small for arobust

statistical analysis of their experiences. Therefore, this report does not show

the category ‘in another way’ when disaggregating survey results by socio-

demographic characteristics.

AGE

Persons who were 16 years old or older were eligible to take part in the

survey. The only country with an upper age limit (74 years) for respondents

was Austria, where Statistics Austria collected the data.

EDUCATION

In each country, the survey presented respondents with alist of levels of

education, in the local language(s) and using the local names for types of

educational institutions. The list was based on the International Standard

Classif‌ication of Education (ISCED) to ensure that the local education

categories could be coded according to aset of standard categories for EU-

level comparative analysis of the results.

SELFDECLARED MAIN ACTIVITY

Respondents were asked to select the category that best described their

current situation, based on the following list:

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employed

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self-employed

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unemployed

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retired

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unable to work because of long-standing health problems

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student, pupil

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fulf‌illing domestic tasks

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compulsory military or civilian service

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other.