Comfort working with a gay, lesbian, or bisexual colleague (EU)

Date
May 30th to June 8th 2015
Regions Surveyed
28

Full Survey Results

This survey was carried out by TNS Opinion & Social network in the 28 Member States of the European Union between 30 May and 8 June 2015. Some 27,718 respondents from different social and demographic groups were interviewed face-to-face at home in their mother tongue on behalf of Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers. The methodology used is that of Eurobarometer surveys as carried out by the Directorate-General for Communication (“Strategy, Corporate Communication Actions and Eurobarometer” Unit) A technical note concerning the interviews conducted by the member institutes of the TNS Opinion & Social network is annexed to this report. It also specifies the interview methods and the confidence intervals.

Question: "Regardless of whether you are actually working or not, please tell me, using a scale from 1 to 10, how comfortable you would feel if one of your colleagues at work belonged to each of the following groups? '1' means that you would feel "not at all comfortable" and '10' that you would feel "totally comfortable".A gay, lesbian or bisexual person?"

Total Uncomfortable (1-4)
Total Comfortable (7-10)
Survey Average (Unweighted)
18.2%
56.9%
  1. 1. Sweden
    2%
    94%
  2. 1%
    92%
  3. 3. Ireland
    4%
    88%
  4. 5%
    87%
  5. 5. France
    6%
    86%
  6. 6. Belgium
    6%
    80%
  7. 7. Denmark
    3%
    76%
  8. 8. Spain
    4%
    76%
  9. 9. Malta
    7%
    73%
  10. 4%
    66%
  11. 11. Italy
    14%
    56%
  12. 12. Germany
    10%
    47%
  13. 13. Poland
    23%
    59%
  14. 14. Slovenia
    18%
    53%
  15. 15. Cyprus
    24%
    58%
  16. 16. Portugal
    17%
    51%
  17. 17. Finland
    12%
    44%
  18. 18. Austria
    16%
    45%
  19. 19. Greece
    31%
    53%
  20. 20. Croatia
    31%
    48%
  21. 21. Hungary
    29%
    44%
  22. 24%
    35%
  23. 23. Estonia
    27%
    34%
  24. 24. Latvia
    34%
    37%
  25. 25. Lithuania
    44%
    35%
  26. 26. Bulgaria
    37%
    27%
  27. 27. Slovakia
    34%
    21%
  28. 28. Romania
    42%
    27%

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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