Life Choices, 1990

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CPOLLUTE 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? F. Environmental pollution   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	1316	60.9%	60.9%	-.71
Fairly concerned	679	31.4%	92.3%	.76
Not too concerned	135	6.2%	98.5%	2.23
Not concerned at all	32	1.5%	100%	3.7

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	56.9% 235	61.4% 457	61.6% 260	62.2% 262	62.9% 95	60.9% 1309
Fairly concerned	33.4% 138	32.3% 240	31.0% 131	29.2% 123	29.1% 44	31.4% 676
Not too concerned	7.5% 31	5.4% 40	6.2% 26	6.7% 28	6.6% 10	6.3% 135
Not concerned at all	2.2% 9	0.9% 7	1.2% 5	1.9% 8	1.3% 2	1.4% 31
TOTAL	100.0% 413	100.0% 744	100.0% 422	100.0% 421	100.0% 151	2151

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very concerned	59.8% 220	62.4% 421	62.8% 505	54.6% 155	61.1% 1301
Fairly concerned	30.4% 112	30.2% 204	31.0% 249	37.3% 106	31.5% 671
Not too concerned	7.1% 26	6.7% 45	5.0% 40	6.7% 19	6.1% 130
Not concerned at all	2.7% 10	0.7% 5	1.2% 10	1.4% 4	1.4% 29
TOTAL	100.0% 368	100.0% 675	100.0% 804	100.0% 284	2131

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very concerned	55.6% 213	62.5% 443	60.5% 360	63.3% 295	60.9% 1311
Fairly concerned	32.9% 126	28.3% 201	32.8% 195	32.8% 153	31.4% 675
Not too concerned	7.8% 30	7.5% 53	6.4% 38	3.0% 14	6.3% 135
Not concerned at all	3.7% 14	1.7% 12	0.3% 2	0.9% 4	1.5% 32
TOTAL	100.0% 383	100.0% 709	100.0% 595	100.0% 466	2153

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very concerned	69.5% 388	56.6% 329	55.0% 365	65.2% 234	60.9% 1316
Fairly concerned	25.4% 142	35.1% 204	34.9% 232	28.1% 101	31.4% 679
Not too concerned	4.3% 24	6.7% 39	7.8% 52	5.6% 20	6.2% 135
Not concerned at all	0.7% 4	1.5% 9	2.3% 15	1.1% 4	1.5% 32
TOTAL	100.0% 558	100.0% 581	100.0% 664	100.0% 359	2162

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very concerned	59.6% 620	61.9% 669	60.7% 1289
Fairly concerned	32.5% 338	30.6% 331	31.5% 669
Not too concerned	6.7% 70	5.7% 62	6.2% 132
Not concerned at all	1.2% 13	1.8% 19	1.5% 32
TOTAL	100.0% 1041	100.0% 1081	2122

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very concerned	57.8% 669	64.0% 422	72.7% 40	72.2% 65	61.0% 1196
Fairly concerned	34.1% 395	28.8% 190	23.6% 13	22.2% 20	31.5% 618
Not too concerned	6.2% 72	6.7% 44	3.6% 2	3.3% 3	6.2% 121
Not concerned at all	1.8% 21	0.5% 3	0.0% 0	2.2% 2	1.3% 26
TOTAL	100.0% 1157	100.0% 659	100.0% 55	100.0% 90	1961