According to the Office, the majority (88) of discrimination investigations were carried out over alleged gender discrimination, followed by probes into discrimination on the basis of social status (63), age (30), disability (25), religion and convictions (18), nationality (8), language (7), sexual orientation (5), convictions and opinions (3) and ethnicity (2).
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