Prisoners:
How attitudes have hardened
From BELFAST TELEGRAPH September 7th, 1999
Applying those changes to the 1998 Referendum result and excluding the "don't knows", there is a fall of seven percentage points in the Yes vote to 64%.
In an extreme scenario presuming all the "don't knows" vote No support for
the Agreement would stand at 55%. If all the undecideds voted Yes, that
would raise support for the Agreement to 68% still down from the 1998 total
of 71%. The opinion poll was conducted by Market Solutions on behalf of
the Belfast Telegraph. Personal interviews were conducted with 1,135 respondents
at 44 randomly selected points across Northern Ireland to provide a representative
sample of the population. Field work took place during the period August
24 to 31, 1999, and was undertaken in accordance with the Code of Conduct
of the Market Research Society. Figures were rounded to the nearest 1%.
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