Life Choices, 1990

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CPOVERTY 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? R. Poverty   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	1106	51.2%	51.2%	-.84
Fairly concerned	832	38.5%	89.8%	.54
Not too concerned	177	8.2%	98%	1.92
Not concerned at all	44	2%	100%	3.3

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	53.2% 219	47.4% 352	51.8% 219	55.5% 233	50.0% 75	51.1% 1098
Fairly concerned	35.9% 148	43.2% 321	39.0% 165	33.6% 141	36.0% 54	38.6% 829
Not too concerned	10.2% 42	8.5% 63	6.4% 27	7.1% 30	10.0% 15	8.2% 177
Not concerned at all	0.7% 3	0.9% 7	2.8% 12	3.8% 16	4.0% 6	2.0% 44
TOTAL	100.0% 412	100.0% 743	100.0% 423	100.0% 420	100.0% 150	2148

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very concerned	47.7% 176	47.1% 317	55.5% 444	54.2% 155	51.3% 1092
Fairly concerned	39.0% 144	43.4% 292	35.3% 282	36.0% 103	38.6% 821
Not too concerned	9.2% 34	8.9% 60	7.0% 56	8.0% 23	8.1% 173
Not concerned at all	4.1% 15	0.6% 4	2.3% 18	1.7% 5	2.0% 42
TOTAL	100.0% 369	100.0% 673	100.0% 800	100.0% 286	2128

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very concerned	56.5% 217	53.4% 378	50.9% 302	43.7% 203	51.2% 1100
Fairly concerned	31.5% 121	38.1% 270	38.4% 228	45.2% 210	38.6% 829
Not too concerned	9.4% 36	5.8% 41	8.9% 53	10.1% 47	8.2% 177
Not concerned at all	2.6% 10	2.7% 19	1.7% 10	1.1% 5	2.0% 44
TOTAL	100.0% 384	100.0% 708	100.0% 593	100.0% 465	2150

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very concerned	55.4% 309	45.8% 265	52.8% 351	50.7% 181	51.2% 1106
Fairly concerned	38.7% 216	41.5% 240	35.8% 238	38.7% 138	38.5% 832
Not too concerned	4.7% 26	10.5% 61	10.1% 67	6.4% 23	8.2% 177
Not concerned at all	1.3% 7	2.2% 13	1.4% 9	4.2% 15	2.0% 44
TOTAL	100.0% 558	100.0% 579	100.0% 665	100.0% 357	2159

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very concerned	45.4% 471	56.6% 612	51.1% 1083
Fairly concerned	41.8% 433	35.6% 385	38.6% 818
Not too concerned	10.5% 109	5.9% 64	8.2% 173
Not concerned at all	2.3% 24	1.9% 20	2.1% 44
TOTAL	100.0% 1037	100.0% 1081	2118

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very concerned	50.2% 579	55.3% 365	43.6% 24	61.8% 55	52.2% 1023
Fairly concerned	39.7% 458	36.1% 238	45.5% 25	25.8% 23	38.0% 744
Not too concerned	8.4% 97	6.7% 44	10.9% 6	9.0% 8	7.9% 155
Not concerned at all	1.7% 20	2.0% 13	0.0% 0	3.4% 3	1.8% 36
TOTAL	100.0% 1154	100.0% 660	100.0% 55	100.0% 89	1958