Carnegie Foundation National Survey of Higher Education, Faculty Sample (1984)

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IMPORT1 (Weighted by WEIGHT) Please indicate the degree to which each of the following is important to you. -- My academic discipline   1) Very important   2) Fairly important   3) Fairly unimportant   4) Very unimportant

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very important	2199	76%	76%
Fairly important	571	19.7%	95.7%
Fairly unimportant	74	2.6%	98.3%
Very unimportant	50	1.7%	100%
Missing	2107	%	%

Variable Comparisons

How religious? Political ideology Religious preference Race Sex

How religious? (I-RELR)

	Deeply religious	Moderately religious	Largely indifferent to religion	Basically opposed to religion	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	77.2% 311	76.0% 1001	76.1% 690	73.4% 149	47	76.0% 2151
Fairly important	18.9% 76	18.5% 243	21.5% 195	21.2% 43	14	19.7% 557
Fairly unimportant	3.2% 13	3.0% 40	1.2% 11	4.9% 10	0	2.6% 74
Very unimportant	0.7% 3	2.5% 33	1.2% 11	0.5% 1	1	1.7% 48
Missing	281	977	663	129	0	2050
TOTAL	100.0% 403	100.0% 1317	100.0% 907	100.0% 203	62	2830

Political ideology (I-POLV)

	Left	Liberal	Middle-of-the road	Moderately conservative	Strongly conservative	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	69.8% 125	78.1% 768	78.9% 578	74.2% 609	66.1% 84	34	76.1% 2164
Fairly important	23.5% 42	18.8% 185	19.4% 142	20.1% 165	17.3% 22	16	19.6% 556
Fairly unimportant	5.0% 9	1.8% 18	1.4% 10	2.2% 18	15.0% 19	0	2.6% 74
Very unimportant	1.7% 3	1.2% 12	0.4% 3	3.5% 29	1.6% 2	0	1.7% 49
Missing	102	669	569	625	80	0	2045
TOTAL	100.0% 179	100.0% 983	100.0% 733	100.0% 821	100.0% 127	50	2843

Religious preference (I-RELIG)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	None	TOTAL
Very important	75.8% 860	76.4% 298	78.0% 103	82.1% 192	74.3% 746	76.0% 2199
Fairly important	19.2% 218	17.2% 67	19.7% 26	16.7% 39	22.0% 221	19.7% 571
Fairly unimportant	3.4% 38	2.3% 9	2.3% 3	0.9% 2	2.2% 22	2.6% 74
Very unimportant	1.6% 18	4.1% 16	0.0% 0	0.4% 1	1.5% 15	1.7% 50
Missing	799	267	135	186	720	2107
TOTAL	100.0% 1134	100.0% 390	100.0% 132	100.0% 234	100.0% 1004	2894

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Hispanic	Native Am	Asian	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	75.0% 1996	93.6% 44	93.8% 30	81.8% 9	87.1% 74	46	75.9% 2153
Fairly important	20.6% 547	6.4% 3	6.3% 2	18.2% 2	10.6% 9	9	19.9% 563
Fairly unimportant	2.6% 69	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.4% 2	2	2.5% 71
Very unimportant	1.8% 49	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	1.7% 49
Missing	1894	68	26	4	44	0	2036
TOTAL	100.0% 2661	100.0% 47	100.0% 32	100.0% 11	100.0% 85	57	2836

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	75.8% 1548	77.3% 630	20	76.2% 2178
Fairly important	20.3% 414	17.8% 145	12	19.6% 559
Fairly unimportant	2.9% 59	1.7% 14	0	2.6% 73
Very unimportant	1.1% 22	3.2% 26	1	1.7% 48
Missing	1535	508	0	2043
TOTAL	100.0% 2043	100.0% 815	33	2858