Life Choices, 1990

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RELIMP How important to you are your religious beliefs?   1) Very important   2) Fairly important   3) Not too important   4) Not at all important

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very important	1162	54%	54%	-.77
Fairly important	691	32.1%	86.1%	.41
Not too important	183	8.5%	94.6%	1.59
Not at all important	116	5.4%	100%	2.76

Variable Comparisons

Age Church attendance Education Region Gender Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18-29 years old	30-44 years old	45-59 years old	60-74 years old	75 years and older	TOTAL
Very important	40.9% 167	48.2% 357	58.1% 244	65.1% 272	72.3% 112	53.8% 1152
Fairly important	43.1% 176	35.9% 266	28.3% 119	23.2% 97	21.3% 33	32.3% 691
Not too important	8.3% 34	9.7% 72	8.8% 37	7.9% 33	3.9% 6	8.5% 182
Not at all important	7.6% 31	6.1% 45	4.8% 20	3.8% 16	2.6% 4	5.4% 116
TOTAL	100.0% 408	100.0% 740	100.0% 420	100.0% 418	100.0% 155	2141

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very important	24.9% 91	34.4% 231	69.3% 558	94.1% 270	54.0% 1150
Fairly important	32.6% 119	46.8% 314	29.2% 235	5.6% 16	32.1% 684
Not too important	20.5% 75	14.0% 94	1.1% 9	0.0% 0	8.4% 178
Not at all important	21.9% 80	4.8% 32	0.4% 3	0.3% 1	5.5% 116
TOTAL	100.0% 365	100.0% 671	100.0% 805	100.0% 287	2128

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very important	66.5% 258	56.3% 398	47.9% 280	47.2% 219	53.9% 1155
Fairly important	24.0% 93	32.1% 227	37.1% 217	33.0% 153	32.2% 690
Not too important	6.4% 25	8.1% 57	9.9% 58	9.3% 43	8.5% 183
Not at all important	3.1% 12	3.5% 25	5.1% 30	10.6% 49	5.4% 116
TOTAL	100.0% 388	100.0% 707	100.0% 585	100.0% 464	2144

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very important	44.7% 247	52.0% 300	65.4% 436	50.3% 179	54.0% 1162
Fairly important	40.6% 224	32.6% 188	26.2% 175	29.2% 104	32.1% 691
Not too important	8.2% 45	9.7% 56	6.1% 41	11.5% 41	8.5% 183
Not at all important	6.5% 36	5.7% 33	2.2% 15	9.0% 32	5.4% 116
TOTAL	100.0% 552	100.0% 577	100.0% 667	100.0% 356	2152

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very important	48.1% 497	59.1% 636	53.7% 1133
Fairly important	34.4% 355	30.4% 327	32.3% 682
Not too important	10.9% 113	6.4% 69	8.6% 182
Not at all important	6.6% 68	4.2% 45	5.4% 113
TOTAL	100.0% 1033	100.0% 1077	2110

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very important	60.0% 694	51.4% 338	20.0% 11	73.3% 66	56.6% 1109
Fairly important	29.8% 344	39.2% 258	43.6% 24	18.9% 17	32.8% 643
Not too important	8.1% 94	7.0% 46	12.7% 7	6.7% 6	7.8% 153
Not at all important	2.1% 24	2.4% 16	23.6% 13	1.1% 1	2.8% 54
TOTAL	100.0% 1156	100.0% 658	100.0% 55	100.0% 90	1959