Acceptance of having a close gay family member

Source
European Social Survey
Date
2020
Regions Surveyed
31

Full Survey Results

In 2020, 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)
17.9%
64.1%
  1. 1. Iceland
    1.4%
    95.5%
  2. 2.3%
    94.9%
  3. 3. Norway
    1.9%
    92.9%
  4. 3.3%
    90.5%
  5. 5. Belgium
    6%
    88.4%
  6. 6. Finland
    5.2%
    87.2%
  7. 6.1%
    84.3%
  8. 8. Spain
    5.3%
    82.4%
  9. 9. France
    9.1%
    84.9%
  10. 10. Sweden
    4.4%
    77.6%
  11. 11. Ireland
    11.9%
    81.6%
  12. 12. Austria
    6.3%
    64.3%
  13. 13. Germany
    7.2%
    62.8%
  14. 14. Portugal
    17%
    72.2%
  15. 15. Italy
    12.6%
    66.7%
  16. 16. Slovenia
    17.1%
    67.3%
  17. 17. Poland
    14.1%
    59.3%
  18. 18. Cyprus
    13.5%
    58.5%
  19. 20.3%
    55.9%
  20. 20. Estonia
    25.6%
    57.1%
  21. 21. Hungary
    24%
    51.2%
  22. 22. Israel
    28.7%
    54.9%
  23. 23. Greece
    25%
    49.2%
  24. 24. Croatia
    30.1%
    52.9%
  25. 25. Lithuania
    27.7%
    45.1%
  26. 26. Latvia
    29.6%
    43.7%
  27. 27. Slovakia
    31.6%
    45.3%
  28. 28. Serbia
    29.1%
    36.3%
  29. 29. Bulgaria
    36.9%
    36.6%
  30. 38.8%
    23.3%
  31. 61.3%
    24.6%

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