Do you think that leaving the Commonwealth will mean a lower standard of living for the individual citizen in Greenland?
"Yes," answer more than three-quarters of those aged 65+ in a new poll conducted by voter analyst Sune Steffen Hansen from Copenhagen Post, with Opinion Danmark A/S as data supplier.
For the younger age groups, about half of them answer “yes” to the same question.
Three questions in the recently conducted opinion polls are about the standard of living in Greenland in connection with independence, and in general the oldest are the most concerned.
70 percent of those over 65 believe that leaving the Realm would mean a worse economy for Greenlandic society. For the other three age groups under 18, between 45 and 50 percent of them believe the same.
The elderly do not want to leave the Commonwealth.
Not surprisingly, it is also those over 65 who are most convinced that Greenland should not leave the Commonwealth if it will result in a lower standard of living for the Greenlandic population. This corresponds to 70 percent of them.
- Older citizens are typically more dependent on welfare benefits, and therefore the appetite for something different - and more uncertain - is often small, says Sune Steffen Hansen and continues:
- For this group, security becomes one of the most crucial factors, also when it comes to political priorities. Incidentally, we also see this pattern in other countries.
Just under a quarter of all respondents in the poll believe that Greenland should leave the Commonwealth no matter what. Just as many answered "don't know" to the same question.
62 percent of all respondents answered "no" to the question that Greenland should leave the Commonwealth and become independent now.
Again, those over 65 are the most confident, with 85 percent answering no.
In the younger age groups, about a quarter believe that Greenland should become independent now.
