Life Choices, 1990

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TVLOC Which of the following media do you depend upon the most for news and information on current events? Local TV news (see note 3 on the ARDA summary page)   0) Not selected   1) Selected

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Not selected	1298	59.7%	59.7%	-.82
Selected	876	40.3%	100%	1.22

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
Not selected	53.5% 221	61.4% 459	63.9% 271	60.7% 256	56.4% 88	59.9% 1295
Selected	46.5% 192	38.6% 289	36.1% 153	39.3% 166	43.6% 68	40.1% 868
TOTAL	100.0% 413	100.0% 748	100.0% 424	100.0% 422	100.0% 156	2163

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Not selected	64.2% 238	60.4% 408	57.3% 463	60.3% 173	59.9% 1282
Selected	35.8% 133	39.6% 268	42.7% 345	39.7% 114	40.1% 860
TOTAL	100.0% 371	100.0% 676	100.0% 808	100.0% 287	2142

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Not selected	47.7% 187	53.8% 383	62.2% 370	75.3% 351	59.6% 1291
Selected	52.3% 205	46.2% 329	37.8% 225	24.7% 115	40.4% 874
TOTAL	100.0% 392	100.0% 712	100.0% 595	100.0% 466	2165

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Not selected	62.9% 352	62.6% 365	49.3% 331	69.6% 250	59.7% 1298
Selected	37.1% 208	37.4% 218	50.7% 341	30.4% 109	40.3% 876
TOTAL	100.0% 560	100.0% 583	100.0% 672	100.0% 359	2174

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Not selected	63.1% 659	56.3% 612	59.6% 1271
Selected	36.9% 386	43.7% 475	40.4% 861
TOTAL	100.0% 1045	100.0% 1087	2132

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Not selected	58.3% 679	57.5% 381	81.8% 45	63.3% 57	58.9% 1162
Selected	41.7% 485	42.5% 282	18.2% 10	36.7% 33	41.1% 810
TOTAL	100.0% 1164	100.0% 663	100.0% 55	100.0% 90	1972