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Full Survey Results
In 2016, the European Social Survey conducted a multi-country survey about a variety of social topics. In this question, they asked the respondents if they would feel ashamed if a close family member was a gay man or lesbian. Equaldex categorizes "Agree"/"Strongly Agree" as "Ashamed" and "Disagree"/"Strongly Disagree" as "Not Ashamed."
Question: "Please say to what extent you agree or disagree with each of the following statements. If a close family member was a gay man or a lesbian, I would feel ashamed."
Ashamed
Not Ashamed
Survey Average (Unweighted)
18.6%
68.7%
- 1. Netherlands
2.6%95.7% - 2. Iceland
4%94% - 3. Norway
4.2%91% - 4. Sweden
4.5%88.8% - 5.5%85.8%
- 6. Spain
8.3%86.5% - 7. Ireland
7.8%84.4% - 8. Finland
7.7%83.1% - 9. Switzerland
7.9%81.8% - 10. France
10.3%82.7% - 11. Belgium
9.6%81.9% - 12. Germany
8.1%79.3% - 13. Portugal
19.6%70.9% - 14. Italy
16%65.4% - 15. Austria
17.8%65% - 16. Slovenia
22.1%61.6% - 17. Czechia
24.5%50.4% - 18. Poland
29.5%52.5% - 19. Israel
30.4%51.3% - 20. Estonia
32%47% - 21. Hungary
44.5%34.9% - 22. Lithuania
42.1%27% - 23. Russia
68.4%19.5%
Regions are ranked by the percentage of "support" responses out of the total responses (excluding participants who answered "don't know" or refused to answer).
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