Catholic Pluralism Project, 1995

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ANCSTIMP (Weighted by WEIGHT) In general, how important is your ethnic ancestry to you in everyday life?   1) Very important   2) Somewhat important   3) Not too important   4) Not important at all   5) Don't know

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very important	617	23.4%	23.4%
Somewhat important	778	29.5%	52.9%
Not too important	690	26.1%	79%
Not important at all	502	19%	98%
Don't know	53	2%	100%

Variable Comparisons

Education Marital status Sex Year of birth Region Race Convert? Household income

Education (I-EDUCATN)

	Lt HS grad	HS grad	SmCol/Tech	Coll. grad	Post-grad	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	39.5% 70	24.4% 181	22.4% 138	17.6% 76	15.8% 29	123	23.0% 494
Somewhat important	28.8% 51	28.7% 213	28.1% 173	23.0% 99	37.5% 69	173	28.1% 605
Not too important	14.7% 26	25.3% 188	25.3% 156	31.8% 137	27.2% 50	133	25.9% 557
Not important at all	9.0% 16	17.3% 128	24.2% 149	26.7% 115	19.6% 36	58	20.7% 444
Don't know	7.9% 14	4.3% 32	0.0% 0	0.9% 4	0.0% 0	3	2.3% 50
TOTAL	100.0% 177	100.0% 742	100.0% 616	100.0% 431	100.0% 184	490	2150

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Div./Sep.	Single	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	21.5% 317	22.0% 41	23.9% 79	27.0% 173	7	23.2% 610
Somewhat important	27.5% 406	30.1% 56	30.0% 99	33.9% 217	0	29.6% 778
Not too important	27.9% 412	26.9% 50	20.3% 67	25.1% 161	0	26.2% 690
Not important at all	21.0% 310	17.7% 33	21.8% 72	13.7% 88	0	19.1% 503
Don't know	2.0% 30	3.2% 6	3.9% 13	0.3% 2	2	1.9% 51
TOTAL	100.0% 1475	100.0% 186	100.0% 330	100.0% 641	9	2632

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very important	22.2% 232	24.1% 385	23.4% 617
Somewhat important	24.4% 254	32.8% 525	29.5% 779
Not too important	28.0% 292	24.9% 398	26.1% 690
Not important at all	24.0% 250	15.8% 253	19.0% 503
Don't know	1.4% 15	2.4% 38	2.0% 53
TOTAL	100.0% 1043	100.0% 1599	2642

Year of birth (I-YRBORN)

	In or before 1940	1941-1960	After 1960	TOTAL
Very important	22.8% 152	21.4% 218	25.9% 247	23.4% 617
Somewhat important	29.9% 200	25.2% 257	33.7% 321	29.5% 778
Not too important	24.9% 166	27.5% 280	25.6% 244	26.1% 690
Not important at all	18.9% 126	24.3% 248	13.4% 128	19.0% 502
Don't know	3.6% 24	1.7% 17	1.3% 12	2.0% 53
TOTAL	100.0% 668	100.0% 1020	100.0% 952	2640

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	22.2% 243	8.8% 56	22.9% 91	28.8% 65	162	19.4% 455
Somewhat important	31.1% 340	29.5% 187	32.5% 129	31.0% 70	53	30.9% 726
Not too important	27.3% 299	35.2% 223	21.2% 84	21.7% 49	35	27.9% 655
Not important at all	17.8% 195	26.2% 166	17.9% 71	17.7% 40	30	20.1% 472
Don't know	1.6% 18	0.2% 1	5.5% 22	0.9% 2	10	1.8% 43
TOTAL	100.0% 1095	100.0% 633	100.0% 397	100.0% 226	290	2351

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Latino	African-Am	Other	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	16.1% 330	52.5% 192	41.2% 28	55.1% 59	7	23.5% 609
Somewhat important	30.2% 621	31.7% 116	33.8% 23	16.8% 18	0	30.0% 778
Not too important	30.2% 621	10.1% 37	2.9% 2	21.5% 23	7	26.3% 683
Not important at all	22.2% 456	3.0% 11	13.2% 9	6.5% 7	20	18.6% 483
Don't know	1.3% 26	2.7% 10	8.8% 6	0.0% 0	11	1.6% 42
TOTAL	100.0% 2054	100.0% 366	100.0% 68	100.0% 107	45	2595

Convert? (I-CONVERT)

	Raisd Cath	Cnvrt Cath	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	24.3% 586	13.7% 31	0	23.4% 617
Somewhat important	30.1% 726	21.7% 49	2	29.4% 775
Not too important	26.6% 641	22.1% 50	0	26.2% 691
Not important at all	16.8% 404	42.0% 95	3	18.9% 499
Don't know	2.2% 52	0.4% 1	0	2.0% 53
TOTAL	100.0% 2409	100.0% 226	5	2635

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Under 15K	15K-29,999	30K-49,999	50K-79,999	80K & over	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	27.4% 61	26.9% 136	17.0% 120	23.6% 125	20.9% 78	98	22.3% 520
Somewhat important	32.3% 72	34.3% 173	29.2% 206	27.9% 148	28.3% 106	73	30.2% 705
Not too important	23.3% 52	20.0% 101	33.3% 235	26.4% 140	25.1% 94	67	26.6% 622
Not important at all	13.9% 31	15.6% 79	20.3% 143	21.9% 116	24.9% 93	40	19.8% 462
Don't know	3.1% 7	3.2% 16	0.1% 1	0.2% 1	0.8% 3	25	1.2% 28
TOTAL	100.0% 223	100.0% 505	100.0% 705	100.0% 530	100.0% 374	303	2337