Secularism: teachers' and French people' support for current laws 2020| ��ƽ��

Support rate of teachers and of the French population to the current major laws regarding secularism in 2020

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Release date

July 2021

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Region

France

Survey time period

December 10 to 17, 2020

Number of respondents

801 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

teachers of kindergarten and elementary school, middle schools and high schools in metropolitan France

Method of interview

Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Personnellement, êtes-vous favorable ou opposé... ?"

* The source adds the following information: "Ifop survey for CLR conducted by internet from October 20 to 22, 2020 among a sample of 2,034 French people aged 15 and over. Data based on people aged 18 and over."

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In France, legislative measures aimed at guaranteeing secularism are almost unanimously supported by teachers. In fact, the 2004 law prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols or clothing that expresses religious affiliation in public schools and colleges generates a broader consensus among teachers (** percent) than among the French population as a whole (** percent). The legislation that has the highest rate of support, both among teachers and the population, is the law of 1905, which guarantees the free exercise of religion and imposes the principle that the State neither recognizes nor subsidizes any religion.

Generally speaking, the French are rather unfavorable to the principle of public funding of religions.