How ageist is Britain?
* “Survey summary from Age Concern”:http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/News_4892.htm
Very
So it would seem from a recent Age Concern survey. The main findings:
* From 55 years old ageism outweighs any other form of discrimination including gender or ethnicity
* Young people feel they are dismissed as shallow larger louts sometimes as well
* One third of respondents said they found people over 70 as ‘incompetent and incapable’
* One third of people over 50 but under the state retirement age are not in paid employment
h3. Methodology
* Sample size: 1800 roughly, so sampling error is around 2%, and a ‘representative sample’ of people over 16 was constructed – which I take to be a stratified sample so age groups represented composition of population in UK
* Questions were piloted first
* Questions and percentages in each response category broken down by age group are available in the summary report
* I have registered interest in the full report as a teaching aid – we shall see