Life Choices, 1990

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CABORT I am going to read you a list of social and political issues that are being discussed today. For each, please tell me how concerned you are personally -- very concerned, fairly concerned, not too concerned, or not concerned at all? A. Abortion   1) Very concerned   2) Fairly concerned   3) Not too concerned   4) Not concerned at all

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very concerned	990	46.1%	46.1%	-.91
Fairly concerned	686	32%	78.1%	.22
Not too concerned	374	17.4%	95.5%	1.36
Not concerned at all	96	4.5%	100%	2.49

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 concerned	45.2% 185	44.5% 329	49.9% 209	46.3% 192	44.4% 68	46.0% 983
Fairly concerned	31.8% 130	33.0% 244	32.9% 138	31.1% 129	27.5% 42	32.0% 683
Not too concerned	18.6% 76	18.9% 140	14.3% 60	16.1% 67	19.6% 30	17.5% 373
Not concerned at all	4.4% 18	3.5% 26	2.9% 12	6.5% 27	8.5% 13	4.5% 96
TOTAL	100.0% 409	100.0% 739	100.0% 419	100.0% 415	100.0% 153	2135

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very concerned	39.0% 142	38.7% 259	49.9% 398	64.1% 182	46.4% 981
Fairly concerned	28.6% 104	35.8% 240	33.5% 267	22.2% 63	31.9% 674
Not too concerned	23.9% 87	21.5% 144	13.3% 106	10.6% 30	17.4% 367
Not concerned at all	8.5% 31	4.0% 27	3.3% 26	3.2% 9	4.4% 93
TOTAL	100.0% 364	100.0% 670	100.0% 797	100.0% 284	2115

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very concerned	49.6% 191	44.5% 311	49.2% 290	41.6% 193	46.1% 985
Fairly concerned	28.3% 109	33.8% 236	29.5% 174	35.6% 165	32.0% 684
Not too concerned	14.8% 57	17.5% 122	17.7% 104	19.4% 90	17.5% 373
Not concerned at all	7.3% 28	4.3% 30	3.6% 21	3.4% 16	4.4% 95
TOTAL	100.0% 385	100.0% 699	100.0% 589	100.0% 464	2137

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very concerned	43.5% 242	42.9% 246	51.4% 342	45.6% 160	46.1% 990
Fairly concerned	34.2% 190	33.3% 191	29.6% 197	30.8% 108	32.0% 686
Not too concerned	18.9% 105	19.7% 113	13.8% 92	18.2% 64	17.4% 374
Not concerned at all	3.4% 19	4.0% 23	5.3% 35	5.4% 19	4.5% 96
TOTAL	100.0% 556	100.0% 573	100.0% 666	100.0% 351	2146

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very concerned	39.0% 402	52.7% 566	46.0% 968
Fairly concerned	34.3% 354	29.9% 321	32.1% 675
Not too concerned	21.7% 224	13.4% 144	17.5% 368
Not concerned at all	4.9% 51	4.0% 43	4.5% 94
TOTAL	100.0% 1031	100.0% 1074	2105

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very concerned	45.2% 523	47.7% 311	53.7% 29	56.8% 50	46.8% 913
Fairly concerned	32.3% 373	33.3% 217	24.1% 13	25.0% 22	32.1% 625
Not too concerned	18.3% 212	15.3% 100	14.8% 8	14.8% 13	17.1% 333
Not concerned at all	4.2% 48	3.7% 24	7.4% 4	3.4% 3	4.1% 79
TOTAL	100.0% 1156	100.0% 652	100.0% 54	100.0% 88	1950