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

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IMPORT3 (Weighted by WEIGHT) Please indicate the degree to which each of the following is important to you. -- My college or university   1) Very important   2) Fairly important   3) Fairly unimportant   4) Very unimportant

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very important	812	28.1%	28.1%
Fairly important	1467	50.7%	78.8%
Fairly unimportant	487	16.8%	95.6%
Very unimportant	125	4.3%	99.9%
Missing	2109	%	%

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	29.7% 120	34.1% 450	21.9% 199	15.6% 31	12	28.3% 800
Fairly important	50.7% 205	46.7% 615	54.2% 492	59.3% 118	36	50.6% 1430
Fairly unimportant	13.6% 55	15.6% 206	19.8% 180	17.1% 34	11	16.8% 475
Very unimportant	5.9% 24	3.6% 47	4.0% 36	8.0% 16	2	4.3% 123
Missing	280	977	662	133	0	2052
TOTAL	100.0% 404	100.0% 1318	100.0% 907	100.0% 199	61	2828

Political ideology (I-POLV)

	Left	Liberal	Middle-of-the road	Moderately conservative	Strongly conservative	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	12.7% 23	24.8% 243	31.1% 228	32.8% 269	30.2% 39	10	28.2% 802
Fairly important	45.9% 83	52.6% 515	50.4% 369	49.0% 401	55.0% 71	27	50.7% 1439
Fairly unimportant	33.1% 60	18.9% 185	14.6% 107	13.6% 111	10.1% 13	12	16.8% 476
Very unimportant	8.3% 15	3.8% 37	3.8% 28	4.6% 38	4.7% 6	2	4.4% 124
Missing	101	672	570	627	77	0	2047
TOTAL	100.0% 181	100.0% 980	100.0% 732	100.0% 819	100.0% 129	51	2841

Religious preference (I-RELIG)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	None	TOTAL
Very important	34.9% 394	31.7% 125	32.1% 42	28.3% 66	18.4% 185	28.1% 812
Fairly important	48.3% 546	49.7% 196	48.9% 64	54.9% 128	53.0% 533	50.7% 1467
Fairly unimportant	12.9% 146	15.0% 59	15.3% 20	13.3% 31	23.1% 232	16.9% 488
Very unimportant	3.9% 44	3.6% 14	3.8% 5	3.4% 8	5.5% 55	4.4% 126
Missing	802	265	136	185	720	2108
TOTAL	100.0% 1130	100.0% 394	100.0% 131	100.0% 233	100.0% 1005	2893

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Hispanic	Native Am	Asian	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	28.2% 749	45.8% 22	27.3% 9	36.4% 4	19.0% 16	12	28.2% 800
Fairly important	50.2% 1334	43.8% 21	48.5% 16	45.5% 5	69.0% 58	32	50.6% 1434
Fairly unimportant	17.2% 457	10.4% 5	15.2% 5	9.1% 1	9.5% 8	11	16.8% 476
Very unimportant	4.4% 117	0.0% 0	9.1% 3	9.1% 1	2.4% 2	3	4.3% 123
Missing	1898	66	25	4	45	0	2038
TOTAL	100.0% 2657	100.0% 48	100.0% 33	100.0% 11	100.0% 84	58	2833

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	27.1% 554	30.7% 250	8	28.1% 804
Fairly important	52.8% 1079	45.3% 369	18	50.7% 1448
Fairly unimportant	16.0% 328	19.0% 155	4	16.9% 483
Very unimportant	4.1% 83	4.9% 40	3	4.3% 123
Missing	1535	510	0	2045
TOTAL	100.0% 2044	100.0% 814	33	2858