Increasing income tax to fund NHS by age group January 2017 Statistic

This statistic shows the public acceptance in the United Kingdom (UK) of funding the NHS by increasing income tax as of January 2017, by age group. From the respondents aged 18 to 24 and 55 to 64, 3 percent and 18 percent respectively believed that it was completely acceptable to fund the NHS by increasing income tax while 25 and 31 percent respectively found it to be completely unacceptable.

Public acceptance of funding the NHS by increasing income tax in the United Kingdom (UK) as of January 2017, by age group

Characteristic	Completely acceptable	Fairly acceptable	Neither acceptable nor unacceptable	Fairly unacceptable	Completely unacceptable	Don't know
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Release date

February 2017

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

January 26 to January 29, 2017

Number of respondents

1,033 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)

Supplementary notes

Original question: To maintain the current level of care and services provided by the NHS, funding for the NHS would have to increase. I am now going to read out some suggestions people have made about how funding could increase. With that in mind, how acceptable or unacceptable do you feel each of the following measures would be ... Increasing income tax.
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