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All Ireland Traveller Health Study Social Capital and Social Support General Summary ROI respondents gave a broad range of responses to the statement that generally speaking, most people can be trusted: a quarter strongly disagreed (25.8%) and a tenth strongly agreed (10.2%). There were no notable differences by sex and the oldest age group was somewhat more in agreement than others with the statement. In NI the most frequent category (42.6%) was the neutral one of neither agreeing nor disagreeing, and younger people were more likely to agree than older respondents. The number one grouping, providing respondents with a lot of support in ROI, were parents (53.3%), followed by spouse or partner (50.4%), with support from other sources lower. In NI, parents also ranked first (46.1%). However spouse or partner ranked fourth (27.0%) after other sources such as other relatives, children and friends. Partner was not applicable in respondent’s situation for 61.0% in NI compared with 29.6% in ROI. There was a broad range of responses to the question of whether respondents ever felt discriminated against or made to feel inferior as a member of the Traveller community. The situations most frequently cited as never occasioning such discrimination were on a sports team (64.9% in ROI, 58.1% NI), followed equally by obtaining insurance or a loan (60.7%) or in accessing health services (60.4%) in ROI and at work (47.2%) or accessing health services (46.0%) in NI. Nonetheless, appreciable numbers of respondents cited frequent episodes of discrimination in all settings, the worst ranked setting being served in a shop or pub, with for instance 35.1% indicating this occurred at least 4 or more times in ROI. There were some sex differences, so that 70.4% in ROI and 60.3% in NI of women indicated they were never discriminated against in a sports team, falling in men to 57.9% in ROI and 55.7% in NI. Younger respondents reported more frequency of discrimination than older people. In the past year, 47.1% in ROI and 25.2% in NI indicated that they never worried about experiencing unfair treatment; the remainder were worried some or most of the time. There was no consistent age pattern. Commentary To assess feelings of trust in individuals in the Traveller and other groups, participants were asked if they agreed with the statement, ‘Generally speaking, most people can be trusted’. It is clear that in comparison with the SLAN 2002 medical card holders, the Traveller groups felt much less trustful (Table 259), with over a quarter of the ROI Travellers strongly disagreeing with this statement. 218
Health Survey Findings Table 259: Agreement with the statement ‘Generally speaking, most people can be trusted’ Strongly agree or agree Travellers (ROI) Travellers (NI) SLAN 2002 medical card holders Male (n=694) Female (n=945) Male (n=191) Female (n=201) Male (n=620) Female (n=902) SLAN 2002 All participants Male (n=2,355) Female (n=3,395) 23.5% 24.7% 24.1% 29.9% 70.0% 67.7% 67.3% 67.1% Strongly disagree 28.0% 24.2% 6.8% 8.5% 2.4% 2.6% 2.8% 2.3% Rating of social supports in the AITHS and SLAN 2002 respondents is shown in Table 260. The percentages shown represent the valid percentage of all those who had access to that kind of support, i.e. if a respondent indicated that they did not have children, or that a supportive relationship with the clergy was not applicable to them, they were removed for the purposes of calculating the percentage. The Travellers can be seen to rate the support they receive from their parents more highly than do the general SLAN 2002 population. Table 260: Number who agreed that the following groups of friends and family gave them ‘a lot of support’, in the AITHS and SLAN 2002 studies Source of support Travellers (ROI) (n=1,559) Travellers (NI) (n=367) SLAN 2002 medical card holders (n=1,639) SLAN 2002 general population (n=5,974) Spouse/Partner 71.6% 69.2% 78.3% 81.6% Parent(s) 69.6% 59.3% 55.4% 38.3% Child(ren) 65.9% 55.0% 61.7% 52.9% Other close relatives 40.7% 34.2% 39.0% 30.2% Friends 36.0% 31.5% 37.2% 34.0% Clergy 40.9% 20.2% - - Furthermore, in comparison with a low income mixed race group aged between 25 and 64 from the US (Krieger et al., 2005), where similar questions were asked, the Traveller experiences of ethnic discrimination seem much more common (Table 261) 5 . 5 We include this comparison because the data items capturing experience of discrimination used in AITHS were derived from the instrument used by Krieger et al. (2005) and therefore the measurements can be seen as directly comparable, although there is a proviso that unlike the other comparisons in this document, in this case the comparator group is clearly not from the general Irish population. 219
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