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

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IMPORT2 (Weighted by WEIGHT) Please indicate the degree to which each of the following is important to you. -- My department   1) Very important   2) Fairly important   3) Fairly unimportant   4) Very unimportant

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very important	1130	39.1%	39.1%
Fairly important	1326	45.9%	85%
Fairly unimportant	331	11.5%	96.5%
Very unimportant	100	3.5%	100%
Missing	2114	%	%

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	41.9% 169	43.4% 571	34.8% 315	29.9% 60	14	39.5% 1115
Fairly important	46.2% 186	41.7% 549	50.0% 453	53.7% 108	30	45.9% 1296
Fairly unimportant	7.4% 30	12.0% 158	11.8% 107	11.4% 23	13	11.3% 318
Very unimportant	4.5% 18	2.9% 38	3.4% 31	5.0% 10	3	3.4% 97
Missing	282	978	664	131	0	2055
TOTAL	100.0% 403	100.0% 1316	100.0% 906	100.0% 201	60	2826

Political ideology (I-POLV)

	Left	Liberal	Middle-of-the road	Moderately conservative	Strongly conservative	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	26.1% 47	37.9% 370	41.1% 301	42.4% 348	41.1% 53	12	39.4% 1119
Fairly important	48.9% 88	48.4% 472	43.4% 318	44.1% 362	48.1% 62	24	45.9% 1302
Fairly unimportant	18.3% 33	10.6% 103	12.0% 88	10.2% 84	9.3% 12	11	11.3% 320
Very unimportant	6.7% 12	3.2% 31	3.5% 26	3.3% 27	1.6% 2	3	3.5% 98
Missing	102	676	569	626	78	0	2051
TOTAL	100.0% 180	100.0% 976	100.0% 733	100.0% 821	100.0% 129	50	2839

Religious preference (I-RELIG)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	None	TOTAL
Very important	44.6% 504	37.9% 149	39.2% 51	42.1% 98	32.7% 328	39.1% 1130
Fairly important	43.0% 485	44.0% 173	50.0% 65	44.6% 104	49.8% 499	45.9% 1326
Fairly unimportant	10.0% 113	13.2% 52	8.5% 11	10.7% 25	12.9% 129	11.4% 330
Very unimportant	2.4% 27	4.8% 19	2.3% 3	2.6% 6	4.6% 46	3.5% 101
Missing	804	265	137	185	723	2114
TOTAL	100.0% 1129	100.0% 393	100.0% 130	100.0% 233	100.0% 1002	2887

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Hispanic	Native Am	Asian	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	39.0% 1036	59.2% 29	28.1% 9	50.0% 5	41.2% 35	17	39.4% 1114
Fairly important	45.6% 1212	32.7% 16	59.4% 19	40.0% 4	51.8% 44	30	45.7% 1295
Fairly unimportant	11.8% 312	6.1% 3	6.3% 2	10.0% 1	4.7% 4	9	11.4% 322
Very unimportant	3.6% 95	2.0% 1	6.3% 2	0.0% 0	2.4% 2	1	3.5% 100
Missing	1901	66	26	4	45	0	2042
TOTAL	100.0% 2655	100.0% 49	100.0% 32	100.0% 10	100.0% 85	57	2831

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	37.8% 769	43.0% 351	10	39.3% 1120
Fairly important	47.2% 961	42.6% 348	16	45.9% 1309
Fairly unimportant	11.8% 240	10.4% 85	5	11.4% 325
Very unimportant	3.3% 67	3.9% 32	1	3.5% 99
Missing	1541	507	0	2048
TOTAL	100.0% 2037	100.0% 816	32	2853