Life Choices, 1990

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CNUCWAR 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? J. The possibility of nuclear war   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	769	35.8%	35.8%	-1.09
Fairly concerned	614	28.6%	64.4%	-.11
Not too concerned	526	24.5%	88.9%	.88
Not concerned at all	239	11.1%	100%	1.86

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	40.4% 165	35.0% 259	33.8% 143	35.3% 147	35.6% 53	35.9% 767
Fairly concerned	26.2% 107	30.7% 227	30.7% 130	25.7% 107	26.2% 39	28.5% 610
Not too concerned	22.1% 90	24.6% 182	24.6% 104	25.2% 105	28.2% 42	24.5% 523
Not concerned at all	11.3% 46	9.7% 72	10.9% 46	13.9% 58	10.1% 15	11.1% 237
TOTAL	100.0% 408	100.0% 740	100.0% 423	100.0% 417	100.0% 149	2137

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very concerned	34.1% 126	36.3% 243	39.3% 313	27.0% 76	35.8% 758
Fairly concerned	28.5% 105	27.0% 181	29.7% 237	29.9% 84	28.7% 607
Not too concerned	23.0% 85	26.4% 177	22.0% 175	28.5% 80	24.4% 517
Not concerned at all	14.4% 53	10.3% 69	9.0% 72	14.6% 41	11.1% 235
TOTAL	100.0% 369	100.0% 670	100.0% 797	100.0% 281	2117

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very concerned	42.5% 161	40.1% 282	35.0% 207	25.2% 117	35.9% 767
Fairly concerned	24.8% 94	29.4% 207	26.4% 156	33.1% 154	28.6% 611
Not too concerned	20.1% 76	20.2% 142	27.9% 165	30.1% 140	24.5% 523
Not concerned at all	12.7% 48	10.4% 73	10.7% 63	11.6% 54	11.1% 238
TOTAL	100.0% 379	100.0% 704	100.0% 591	100.0% 465	2139

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very concerned	35.1% 195	32.4% 188	40.8% 269	33.1% 117	35.8% 769
Fairly concerned	32.4% 180	31.6% 183	26.1% 172	22.4% 79	28.6% 614
Not too concerned	22.7% 126	23.8% 138	23.4% 154	30.6% 108	24.5% 526
Not concerned at all	9.9% 55	12.2% 71	9.7% 64	13.9% 49	11.1% 239
TOTAL	100.0% 556	100.0% 580	100.0% 659	100.0% 353	2148

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very concerned	32.7% 338	38.6% 414	35.7% 752
Fairly concerned	26.4% 273	30.9% 332	28.7% 605
Not too concerned	28.9% 299	20.1% 216	24.4% 515
Not concerned at all	12.1% 125	10.3% 111	11.2% 236
TOTAL	100.0% 1035	100.0% 1073	2108

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very concerned	35.0% 402	39.3% 259	40.7% 22	33.7% 30	36.6% 713
Fairly concerned	26.5% 304	31.1% 205	25.9% 14	24.7% 22	28.0% 545
Not too concerned	27.1% 311	20.9% 138	18.5% 10	23.6% 21	24.6% 480
Not concerned at all	11.3% 130	8.6% 57	14.8% 8	18.0% 16	10.8% 211
TOTAL	100.0% 1147	100.0% 659	100.0% 54	100.0% 89	1949