significantly increased the odds of agreeing with the statements that people with intellectual disability, autism and physical disabilities have the same right to fulfilment through sexual relationships as everyone else. Having a higher satisfaction with life score significantly increased the odds of agreeing with the statements that people with mental health difficulties, intellectual disability and autism had the same right to fulfilment through sexual relationships as everyone else (Table A2.18, Appendix 2, page 116). The main reason given for feeling that adults with disabilities should not have the same right to fulfilment through sexual relationships was that they are not capable of making decisions or of consenting (22%) (Figure 2.20). Almost 1 in 5 (18%) cited that the right to fulfilment through sexual relationship depends on the disability. Figure 2.20: Reasons why adults with disabilities should not have the same right to fulfilment through sexual relationships as everyone else Base: 2017, all who disagreed or strongly disagreed that adults with disabilities should not have the same right to sexual relationships, 110 In 2011, the most common response was that people with disabilities are not capable of making decisions or of consenting followed by the consideration that people with disabilities may be vulnerable to abuse. 3.6.2 Having children The proportion of respondents agreeing that adults with vision or hearing disabilities (68% to 85%) and physical disabilities (65% to 80%) having children if they wish have all increased significantly on 2011 levels and are back in line with those recorded in 2006. The lowest support continues to be for those with mental health difficulties (56%) although support has increased significantly from 2011 (36%) and 2006 (40%) (Figure 3.21, summarised in Table 3.8). In further analysis that controlled for other variables, these increases remained significant (Table A2.19, Appendix 2, page 117). In 2017 the odds of agreeing that people with intellectual disability have the same right to sexual fulfilment as everyone else was higher than for people with intellectual disability and autism in 2011 and 2006. Figure 3.21: Level of agreement that adults with the following disabilities should have children if they wish. Base: 2017, all adults aged 18+, 1294 †Wording change in 2017 so data not directly comparable to 2011 and 2006 Table 3.8: Summary of level of agreement that adults with the following disabilities should have children if they wish
Have taken a holiday abroad in the last 12 months 4 Have gone on a daytrip or outing in the last 12 months 5 Own a mobile phone 6 Have access to the internet 7 Section 9: Life Satisfaction Now I would like to ask you some questions about happiness The next few questions are about how people sometimes feel Q.18 All things considered, how satisfied would you say you are with your life these days? Please tell me on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 means very dissatisfied and 10 means very satisfied. 1 Very dissatisfied 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 very satisfied Q19 Taking all things together on a scale of 1 to 10, how happy would you say you are? Here 1 means you are very unhappy and 10 means you are very happy. 1 Very unhappy 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very happy Q.20 Please indicate for each of the statements which is closest to how you have been feeling over the last two weeks. SHOW CARD 4 Rotate statements All of the time Most of the time More than half of the time Less than half of the time Some of the time At no time Refusal Don’t know I have felt particularly tense 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I have felt lonely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I have felt downhearted 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
F50- 6 C6: Working status (chief income earner) Working full time 1 Working part-time 2 Self-employed 3 Unemployed (seeking employment) 4 Full-time homemaker 5 Full-time farmer 6 Part-time farmer 7 Retired 8 C7: Working status (respondent) Working full-time 1 Working part-time 2 Self-employed 3 Unemployed (seeking employment) 4 Full-time homemaker 5 Full-time farmer 6 Part time farmer 7 Retired 8 C8: Educational status (respondent) Primary level 1 2nd level 2 Still at 2nd level 3 3rd level Under Graduate 4 3rd level Post Graduate 5 Still at 3rd level 6 No formal education 7 C9: Children: Have you got any children (of any age)? Yes 1 No 2 C10: Are any under 18 years of age. Yes No 1 2 C11: Interviews location City/ City suburb 1 Town 2 Village/ rural area 3 C.12 Nationality: Were you born in Ireland? Yes 1 No 2 IF NO C.13 In which country were you born? GPS code for person so that links can be made to locality deprivation (Best efforts to be made here).
Table A2.24: Ordinal logistic regression model how satisfied with life respondents reported feeling by selected variables Selected variables Odds Ratio 95% Confidence Interval Lower Upper Age (compared to >55) Less than 55 0.71* 0.57 0.88 Gender (compared to female) Male 1.07 0.88 1.30 Area (compared to urban) Urban 0.86 0.68 1.09 Socio-economic group (compared to C2DE) ABC1 1.31* 1.07 1.60 Disability status (compared to not having a disability) Have a disability 0.45* 0.34 0.59 Social isolation (compared to not at risk of social isolation)† At risk of social isolation 0.64* 0.51 0.81 Know someone with a disability (compared to not knowing) Yes 0.98 0.71 1.34 Region (compared to Dublin 1.51* 1.14 2.00 Munster) Rest of Leinster 1.75* 1.34 2.29 Connaught/Ulster 1.22 0.90 1.65 Frequency of contact (compared to at least Monthly to three monthly 1.12 0.87 1.45 weekly) Less often/never 0.93 0.71 1.21 *Denotes a statistically significant finding. Dependant variable relates to question 21 OR >1 or <1 indicates a higher or lower level of satisfaction with life Satisfaction scale – 1 means very dissatisfied and 10 means very satisfied Scores grouped as 1-4 and then individual scores between 5 and 10 †A score of 12 or less indicates risk of social isolation on the Lubben’s Social Network Scale Table A2.25: Ordinal logistic regression model summarising how happy respondents reported feeling by selected variables Selected variables Odds 95%
Table A2.26: Analysis of feeling tense by selected variables Feel tense (%) Male Female Under 35 35-44 45-49 50-54 55–64 65+ ABC1 C2DE Dublin Rest of Conn/ Ulster Urban Rural Have No Total All, most and more than half of the time 6 7 5 5 14* 8 7 5 5 7 8 7 5 7 7 6 19* 4* 7 Less than half and some of the time 44 48 49 44 48 45 43 46 47 45 44 37* 53 53* 46 46 49 46 46 At no time 46 42 43 47 34* 42 48 47 44 44 44 51* 40 39 44 44 30* 47 44 Don’t know 3 1 1 2 2 4 1 2 2 2 1 3 2 1 1 3 2 2 2 *Denotes a statistically significant finding. Table A2.27: Analysis of feeling lonely by selected variables Feel Lonely (%) Male Female Under 35 35-44 45-49 50-54 55–64 65+ ABC1 C2DE Dublin Rest of Conn/ Ulster Urban Rural Have No Total All, most and more than half of the time 5 6 1* 6 8 6 7 8 5 6 9* 5 4 5 6 5 16* 4* 6 Less than half and some of the time 33 37 35 31 37 36 33 42 34 37 31 32 42* 38 36 35 42* 34 35 At no time 58 54 60 59 51 55 59 48* 59 54 57 60 52 57 56 57 40 60 56 Don’t know 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 *Denotes a statistically significant finding.
Appendix 3: Tables corresponding to the figures in the main report These tables have been created to make the figures in the main report accessible to those who may have difficulty reading the figures. Table of tables in appendix 3 Table A3.1: Illnesses, conditions or disabilities the term ‘people with disabilities’ refers to Disability type 2006 (%) 2011 (%) 2017 (%)