Catholic Pluralism Project, 1995

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MOMCLOSE (Weighted by WEIGHT) As a child, how close were you to your mother?   1) Very close   2) Fairly close   3) Somewhat close   4) Not very close   5) Does not apply/Not raised by mother   6) Don't know

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very close	1818	68.8%	68.8%
Fairly close	466	17.6%	86.4%
Somewhat close	119	4.5%	90.9%
Not very close	133	5%	95.9%
Does not apply/Not raised by mother	86	3.3%	99.2%
Don't know	19	.7%	99.9%

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 close	57.6% 102	67.5% 500	65.6% 404	74.0% 318	75.1% 139	355	68.1% 1463
Fairly close	15.3% 27	17.0% 126	17.9% 110	17.9% 77	17.8% 33	92	17.4% 373
Somewhat close	4.0% 7	3.5% 26	6.0% 37	4.9% 21	3.2% 6	22	4.5% 97
Not very close	10.7% 19	7.0% 52	5.5% 34	3.3% 14	3.2% 6	9	5.8% 125
Does not apply/Not raised by mother	10.7% 19	3.6% 27	4.1% 25	0.0% 0	0.5% 1	13	3.4% 72
Don't know	1.7% 3	1.3% 10	1.0% 6	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.9% 19
TOTAL	100.0% 177	100.0% 741	100.0% 616	100.0% 430	100.0% 185	491	2149

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Div./Sep.	Single	Missing	TOTAL
Very close	69.5% 1024	71.9% 133	50.6% 167	75.4% 485	9	68.7% 1809
Fairly close	17.5% 258	13.0% 24	21.2% 70	17.7% 114	0	17.7% 466
Somewhat close	4.8% 71	0.0% 0	9.7% 32	2.5% 16	0	4.5% 119
Not very close	4.7% 70	5.9% 11	10.0% 33	3.0% 19	0	5.1% 133
Does not apply/Not raised by mother	2.9% 43	4.3% 8	7.9% 26	1.4% 9	0	3.3% 86
Don't know	0.5% 8	4.9% 9	0.6% 2	0.0% 0	0	0.7% 19
TOTAL	100.0% 1474	100.0% 185	100.0% 330	100.0% 643	9	2632

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very close	71.2% 741	67.4% 1077	68.9% 1818
Fairly close	19.2% 200	16.6% 265	17.6% 465
Somewhat close	5.1% 53	4.1% 66	4.5% 119
Not very close	1.5% 16	7.3% 117	5.0% 133
Does not apply/Not raised by mother	1.4% 15	4.4% 71	3.3% 86
Don't know	1.5% 16	0.2% 3	0.7% 19
TOTAL	100.0% 1041	100.0% 1599	2640

Year of birth (I-YRBORN)

	In or before 1940	1941-1960	After 1960	TOTAL
Very close	68.7% 459	64.1% 653	74.1% 706	68.9% 1818
Fairly close	16.9% 113	19.3% 196	16.4% 156	17.6% 465
Somewhat close	4.8% 32	5.2% 53	3.5% 33	4.5% 118
Not very close	3.1% 21	7.8% 79	3.5% 33	5.0% 133
Does not apply/Not raised by mother	4.6% 31	2.9% 30	2.6% 25	3.3% 86
Don't know	1.8% 12	0.7% 7	0.0% 0	0.7% 19
TOTAL	100.0% 668	100.0% 1018	100.0% 953	2639

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	Missing	TOTAL
Very close	67.8% 742	68.1% 431	73.3% 291	61.5% 139	215	68.2% 1603
Fairly close	18.0% 197	20.5% 130	14.1% 56	19.0% 43	40	18.1% 426
Somewhat close	4.8% 53	6.2% 39	2.8% 11	4.9% 11	4	4.9% 114
Not very close	6.1% 67	0.5% 3	5.5% 22	11.9% 27	15	5.1% 119
Does not apply/Not raised by mother	1.6% 17	4.7% 30	4.0% 16	2.7% 6	17	2.9% 69
Don't know	1.6% 18	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0	0.8% 19
TOTAL	100.0% 1094	100.0% 633	100.0% 397	100.0% 226	291	2350

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Latino	African-Am	Other	Missing	TOTAL
Very close	67.9% 1394	72.3% 266	69.1% 47	71.0% 76	35	68.7% 1783
Fairly close	19.6% 403	9.8% 36	10.3% 7	12.1% 13	7	17.7% 459
Somewhat close	5.2% 106	2.7% 10	4.4% 3	0.0% 0	0	4.6% 119
Not very close	4.0% 83	8.7% 32	2.9% 2	15.0% 16	0	5.1% 133
Does not apply/Not raised by mother	2.4% 49	6.3% 23	13.2% 9	1.9% 2	2	3.2% 83
Don't know	0.9% 18	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.7% 19
TOTAL	100.0% 2053	100.0% 368	100.0% 68	100.0% 107	44	2596

Convert? (I-CONVERT)

	Raisd Cath	Cnvrt Cath	Missing	TOTAL
Very close	69.1% 1664	67.0% 152	2	68.9% 1816
Fairly close	18.1% 437	11.9% 27	1	17.6% 464
Somewhat close	4.0% 97	9.7% 22	0	4.5% 119
Not very close	5.1% 123	4.8% 11	0	5.1% 134
Does not apply/Not raised by mother	2.9% 70	6.6% 15	0	3.2% 85
Don't know	0.7% 17	0.0% 0	2	0.6% 17
TOTAL	100.0% 2408	100.0% 227	5	2635

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Under 15K	15K-29,999	30K-49,999	50K-79,999	80K & over	Missing	TOTAL
Very close	66.2% 147	70.3% 355	65.7% 463	67.2% 357	73.8% 276	220	68.4% 1598
Fairly close	8.1% 18	19.6% 99	20.6% 145	18.5% 98	17.1% 64	42	18.1% 424
Somewhat close	8.6% 19	1.8% 9	6.1% 43	3.0% 16	6.7% 25	7	4.8% 112
Not very close	7.2% 16	5.0% 25	4.7% 33	8.3% 44	0.5% 2	12	5.1% 120
Does not apply/Not raised by mother	6.3% 14	2.6% 13	3.0% 21	1.7% 9	1.9% 7	22	2.7% 64
Don't know	3.6% 8	0.8% 4	0.0% 0	1.3% 7	0.0% 0	0	0.8% 19
TOTAL	100.0% 222	100.0% 505	100.0% 705	100.0% 531	100.0% 374	303	2337