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ATRALIANS' SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE WEAKENS NEW POLL
However, the bulk of the public bate seems to be based on tuive or speculative perceptns of the tras of people who are likely to oppose or support same-sex marriage, or on anecdotal ed data om the Hoehold, Ine and Labour Dynamics Atralia Survey (HILDA) to asss trends the gree of support for same-sex marriage, and to ascerta the characteristics of those Atralians who do, or don't, support dataIn 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2015, the HILDA Survey asked s natnal panel to rate their gree of agreement wh the statement "Homosexual upl should have the same rights as heterosexual upl do" on a sle om one (strongly disagree) to seven (strongly agree) HILDA data has strengths and weakns pared to recent poll data.
Examatn of the 2015 HILDA Survey data revealed marked differenc the gree of support for equal rights for same-sex upl across populatn support was signifintly greater among:women;non-heterosexual (gay/lbian, bisexual) people;younger people;people wh gree-level or year 12 as their hight tnal qualifitns (pared to lower than year 12, or a profsnal qualifitn);non-relig people;people born Atralia or an English-speakg untry (pared to people born a non-English-speakg untry);people wh higher ; andpeople livg major ci (pared to those livg regnal/remote areas) the factors were acunted for, there were few and small differenc across Atralia's stat and ss on the fence?