This statistic illustrates how prepared people are to marry or enter a relationship with someone outside of their own social class in Great Britain as of 2017. Those who consider themselves upper class are 40 percent more likely than the working class to not engage in a relationship with someone in a different social class. 82 percent of the middle class say they would marry or enter a relationship with a different social class. This is 41 percentage points higher than those who said yes in the upper class.
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YouGov. (September 26, 2017). Would you be prepared to marry or enter into a long term relationship with someone in a different social class to you? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 13, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/778782/opinion-on-different-social-class-relationships-great-britain/
YouGov. "Would you be prepared to marry or enter into a long term relationship with someone in a different social class to you?." Chart. September 26, 2017. Statista. Accessed January 13, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/778782/opinion-on-different-social-class-relationships-great-britain/
YouGov. (2017). Would you be prepared to marry or enter into a long term relationship with someone in a different social class to you?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 13, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/778782/opinion-on-different-social-class-relationships-great-britain/
YouGov. "Would You Be Prepared to Marry or Enter into a Long Term Relationship with Someone in a Different Social Class to You?." Statista, Statista Inc., 26 Sep 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/778782/opinion-on-different-social-class-relationships-great-britain/
YouGov, Would you be prepared to marry or enter into a long term relationship with someone in a different social class to you? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/778782/opinion-on-different-social-class-relationships-great-britain/ (last visited January 13, 2025)
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