Advocate of the Principle of Equality (Zagovornik načela enakosti) (2018), Regular annual report for the year 2017 (Redno letno poročilo za leto 2017), Ljubljana, Zagovornik načela enakosti Republike Slovenije
Country
Slovenia
Title
Year
Type of publication
Geographical coverage
National
Area/location of interest
Type of Institution
National human rights body
Institution
Main Thematic Focus
Discrimination
Target Population
Ethnic minorities Religious minorities Roma Refugees & asylum seekers Migrants LGBTI
Key findings
The Advocate of the Principle of Equality, The national equality body, commissioned a national survey on the perceptions of discrimination in late 2017. The survey showed that Roma are percieved as the most common victims of discrimination (24 % of the respondents, multiple responses possible), followed by persons of sexual orientation and refugees, respectively (14 %), persons of lower class (poor, homeless...) (11 %), women (8 %) and foreigners (7 %). Five per cent of the respondents also claimed that members of religious groups are most often subject to discrimination.
In addition, 40 % of the respondents stated that race/ethnic origin are the most common grounds of discrimination (a maximum of 3 responses possible), sexual orientation being second (39 %), followed by religion (29 %), social status (26 %), disability (18 %), wealth (18 %) and nationality of a non-EU country (17 %).
Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)
Quantitative (survey)
Sample details and representativeness
Sampling frame - residents of the Republic of Slovenia
Sample - 1011 respondents between 15 and 75 years of age, representative by gender, age, region and education