Acceptance of having a close gay family member

Source
European Social Survey
Date
2018
Regions Surveyed
31

Full Survey Results

In 2018, 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)
22.1%
63.2%
  1. 1. Iceland
    1.9%
    96.5%
  2. 2. Norway
    2.9%
    92.7%
  3. 4.2%
    92.8%
  4. 4. Denmark
    4.7%
    91.2%
  5. 5. Sweden
    4.1%
    87%
  6. 5.3%
    86.6%
  7. 7. Spain
    7.7%
    86.6%
  8. 8. Finland
    6.5%
    84.7%
  9. 7.5%
    82.3%
  10. 10. Ireland
    9.6%
    84.2%
  11. 11. France
    9.6%
    83.3%
  12. 12. Germany
    9.5%
    79%
  13. 13. Belgium
    11.4%
    80.3%
  14. 14. Portugal
    14.8%
    76.8%
  15. 15. Austria
    15.2%
    69.8%
  16. 16. Italy
    14.7%
    68.5%
  17. 17. Slovenia
    18.6%
    65.1%
  18. 18. Croatia
    30.1%
    54.5%
  19. 26.4%
    47.4%
  20. 20. Estonia
    30.8%
    50.3%
  21. 21. Cyprus
    27.9%
    46.3%
  22. 22. Poland
    32.6%
    49.4%
  23. 23. Slovakia
    32.8%
    40.6%
  24. 24. Hungary
    34.3%
    41.5%
  25. 25. Latvia
    43.3%
    39.7%
  26. 26. Bulgaria
    37.1%
    27.5%
  27. 27. Romania
    48.3%
    33.7%
  28. 28. Serbia
    49.9%
    32.6%
  29. 29. Lithuania
    44.9%
    27.5%
  30. 45.7%
    26.6%
  31. 31. Albania
    53.9%
    33%

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).

Submitted by danlev