American National Election Studies, 2004

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CORRUPTION

How widespread do you think corruption such as bribe taking is amongst politicians in the United States: very widespread, quite widespread, not very widespread, it hardly happens at all?
  1) VERY
  2) QUITE
  3) NOT VERY
  4) HARDLY
  8) DON'T KNOW
  9) REFUSED

Category Frequency Percentage Cumulative Percentage Z-Score
VERY 185 17.4% 17.4% -1.18
QUITE 438 41.1% 58.4% -.34
NOT VERY 384 36% 94.5% .5
HARDLY 32 3% 97.5% 1.34
DON'T KNOW 26 2.4% 99.9% 4.7
REFUSED 1 .1% 100% 5.54

Variable Comparisons


Gender (I-GENDER)

MALE FEMALE TOTAL
VERY 17.9%
91
16.8%
94
17.4%
185
QUITE 33.7%
171
47.8%
267
41.1%
438
NOT VERY 43.2%
219
29.5%
165
36.0%
384
HARDLY 3.6%
18
2.5%
14
3.0%
32
DON'T KNOW 1.6%
8
3.2%
18
2.4%
26
REFUSED 0.0%
0
0.2%
1
0.1%
1
Missing
59

87

146
TOTAL 100.0%
507
100.0%
559

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Age (I-AGE_RESP)

18-30 31-45 46-60 61+ TOTAL
VERY 21.0%
46
17.9%
49
15.3%
46
16.1%
44
17.4%
185
QUITE 47.9%
105
40.5%
111
40.3%
121
37.0%
101
41.1%
438
NOT VERY 24.7%
54
35.0%
96
39.0%
117
42.9%
117
36.0%
384
HARDLY 5.0%
11
2.9%
8
2.0%
6
2.6%
7
3.0%
32
DON'T KNOW 1.4%
3
3.6%
10
3.0%
9
1.5%
4
2.4%
26
REFUSED 0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.3%
1
0.0%
0
0.1%
1
Missing
35

44

42

25

146
TOTAL 100.0%
219
100.0%
274
100.0%
300
100.0%
273

1066


Denomination (I-DENOM_AT)

Protestant Catholic Jewish Other Missing TOTAL
VERY 14.9%
45
14.1%
27
8.7%
2
22.3%
42

69
16.5%
116
QUITE 41.6%
126
45.0%
86
30.4%
7
44.7%
84

135
43.0%
303
NOT VERY 38.3%
116
36.6%
70
56.5%
13
27.7%
52

133
35.6%
251
HARDLY 1.7%
5
3.7%
7
4.3%
1
3.7%
7

12
2.8%
20
DON'T KNOW 3.6%
11
0.5%
1
0.0%
0
1.1%
2

12
2.0%
14
REFUSED 0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.5%
1

0
0.1%
1
Missing
27

24

7

39

49

146
TOTAL 100.0%
303
100.0%
191
100.0%
23
100.0%
188

410

705


Region (I-REGION)

NORTHEAST NORTH CENT SOUTH WEST TOTAL
VERY 19.0%
35
15.5%
44
19.3%
71
15.2%
35
17.4%
185
QUITE 38.6%
71
41.3%
117
43.5%
160
39.0%
90
41.1%
438
NOT VERY 38.6%
71
35.7%
101
31.0%
114
42.4%
98
36.0%
384
HARDLY 2.7%
5
3.9%
11
2.7%
10
2.6%
6
3.0%
32
DON'T KNOW 1.1%
2
3.5%
10
3.3%
12
0.9%
2
2.4%
26
REFUSED 0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.3%
1
0.0%
0
0.1%
1
Missing
34

31

49

32

146
TOTAL 100.0%
184
100.0%
283
100.0%
368
100.0%
231

1066


Church attendance (I-CHURCH_A)

Yes No Missing TOTAL
VERY 16.5%
117
18.9%
67

1
17.3%
184
QUITE 43.0%
305
37.3%
132

1
41.1%
437
NOT VERY 35.5%
252
37.3%
132

0
36.1%
384
HARDLY 2.8%
20
3.4%
12

0
3.0%
32
DON'T KNOW 2.1%
15
3.1%
11

0
2.4%
26
REFUSED 0.1%
1
0.0%
0

0
0.1%
1
Missing
97

47

2

146
TOTAL 100.0%
710
100.0%
354

4

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