Society’s attitude towards the travelling community in Dublin.

Authors

Samson, Jessica

Issue Date

2010

Degree

BA (Hons) in Social Science

Publisher

Dublin Business School

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Abstract

The purpose of the research study was to access society’s attitude towards the travelling community in Dublin area, the Data were gathered from questionnaires and participants, which contained 10 questions in total, five negative and five positive questions before giving out the questionnaires participants were briefed on what the research was all about before handing out the questionnaires. The study is a quantitative research. Two hundred participants took part in this study, 103 females and 97males. A descriptive statistics was carried out to show the frequency and percentage of males and females showing their answers to the ten questions. The researcher predicted that there will be significant differences in how society attitude towards travelling community in the Dublin area. The researcher then found that there was a significant difference as predicted.