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3 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The apparent contrast between the April results and the latest survey findings suggest that al- though people may generally feel that women who have an abortion should not be imprisoned, the ter- mination of pregnancy should not be decriminalised. Young, graduates and up north The latest findings show that among those aged between 16 and 35, 57.7% disagree with decrimi- nalisation while 32.5% agree. This is the cohort with the strongest support for decriminalisation. The lowest support is among pensioners with only 6% agreeing with the suggestion that abortion should be decriminalised. On a geographical basis, the strongest opposition to decrimi- nalisation is in Gozo with 77.9% against and only 3.8% in favour. Strongest support for decrim- inalisation is in the Northern region with 25% in favour and 62.5% against. This is followed by the Western region with 22.8% in favour of decriminalisation and 62.3% against. When the numbers are broken down by the education level at- tained, decriminalisation finds strongest support among those with a tertiary and a post-second- ary education, where 26.6% and 25.2% respectively agree. Political allegiance Labour Party voters are more likely to support decriminalisation than Nationalist Party voters al- though the margins are very close. While 17% of those who voted PL in the last general election sup- port decriminalisation, 65.5% are against and 17.5% are unsure. Among PN voters, 14.5% are in favour of decriminalisation and 71.7% are against, while 13.8% are unsure. Methodology The survey was carried out be- tween Monday 31 May 2021 and Friday 4 June 2021. 650 respond- ents opted to complete the survey. Stratified random sampling based on region, age and gender was used to replicate the Maltese de- mographic. The estimated margin of error is 4.9% for a confidence interval of 95% for the overall re- sults. Demographic and sub-group breakdowns have significantly larger margins of error. maltatoday | SUNDAY • 13 JUNE 2021 NEWS PRELIMINARY MARKET CONSULTATION MALTESE SPELLING AND GRAMMAR CHECKER SOLUTION AND RELATED SERVICES The purpose of this Preliminary Market Consultation (PMC) is to identify potential Solutions and the avaiability of Economic Operators who are able to provide a Maltese Spelling and Grammar Checker solution. For more information visit etenders.gov.mt TENDER ID: MHAL/01/2021 Interested parties are to submit their bid via the e-tenders portal by not ater than 30/06/2021 12:00 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Spell Checker 1.pdf 1 27/05/2021 08:14 Abortion bill changing minds?