The Australian Community Does Not Support Gender Selection by IVF for Social Reasons

Table 2

Analysis of responses by sex and age.

(a) Question  1

	Men	Women	14–17	18–24	25–34	35–49	50–64	Over 65
Sample size	300	350	46	60	88	174	168	114
Approve	22.2	19.3	27.7	30.6	27.8	18.0	15.7	18.6
Disapprove	73.9	72.8	72.3	64.1	62.8	78.4	75.0	77.3
Undecided	3.9	7.9		5.3	9.4	3.7	9.3	4.2

(b) Question  2

	Men	Women	14–17	18–24	25–34	35–49	50–64	Over 65
Sample size	300	350	46	60	88	174	168	114
Approve	20.3	14.9	28.3	30.8	27.2	14.2	11.3	12.8
Disapprove	74.7	78.1	71.7	62.2	69.4	82.0	80.2	77.2
Undecided	5.0	6.9		7.0	3.4	3.8	8.6	10.0

(c) Question  3

	Men	Women	14–17	18–24	25–34	35–49	50–64	Over 65
Sample size	300	350	46	60	88	174	168	114
Approve	22.6	18.0	27.6	30.1	31.3	16.6	14.4	17.1
Disapprove	71.1	77.2	69.7	62.6	65.0	77.6	80.5	75.3
Undecided	6.3	4.8	2.7	7.2	3.7	5.8	5.1	7.7