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

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IMPORT5 (Weighted by WEIGHT) Please indicate the degree to which each of the following is important to you. -- National or international societies in my profession   1) Very important   2) Fairly important   3) Fairly unimportant   4) Very unimportant

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very important	409	14.2%	14.2%
Fairly important	1180	41%	55.2%
Fairly unimportant	950	33%	88.2%
Very unimportant	337	11.7%	99.9%
Missing	2124	%	%

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	14.2% 57	14.9% 196	13.6% 122	13.4% 27	7	14.3% 402
Fairly important	43.9% 176	45.0% 592	36.0% 323	31.2% 63	26	41.0% 1154
Fairly unimportant	31.9% 128	29.2% 384	38.0% 341	40.6% 82	16	33.2% 935
Very unimportant	10.0% 40	11.0% 145	12.4% 111	14.9% 30	10	11.6% 326
Missing	283	978	673	130	0	2064
TOTAL	100.0% 401	100.0% 1317	100.0% 897	100.0% 202	59	2817

Political ideology (I-POLV)

	Left	Liberal	Middle-of-the road	Moderately conservative	Strongly conservative	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	15.7% 28	16.5% 161	14.1% 102	11.9% 98	10.2% 13	7	14.2% 402
Fairly important	37.6% 67	38.1% 372	42.0% 304	45.4% 373	33.9% 43	22	41.0% 1159
Fairly unimportant	35.4% 63	34.8% 340	31.4% 227	31.9% 262	33.9% 43	16	33.1% 935
Very unimportant	11.2% 20	10.6% 103	12.6% 91	10.8% 89	22.0% 28	5	11.7% 331
Missing	103	676	579	624	80	0	2062
TOTAL	100.0% 178	100.0% 976	100.0% 724	100.0% 822	100.0% 127	50	2827

Religious preference (I-RELIG)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	None	TOTAL
Very important	15.5% 175	15.4% 60	10.1% 13	15.8% 36	12.5% 125	14.2% 409
Fairly important	42.9% 484	46.8% 182	41.9% 54	44.7% 102	35.7% 358	41.0% 1180
Fairly unimportant	31.1% 351	26.2% 102	38.0% 49	29.4% 67	38.0% 381	33.0% 950
Very unimportant	10.4% 117	11.6% 45	10.1% 13	10.1% 23	13.9% 139	11.7% 337
Missing	804	268	137	192	722	2123
TOTAL	100.0% 1127	100.0% 389	100.0% 129	100.0% 228	100.0% 1003	2876

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Hispanic	Native Am	Asian	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	13.7% 364	31.3% 15	14.7% 5	40.0% 4	19.7% 15	5	14.3% 403
Fairly important	40.6% 1076	45.8% 22	47.1% 16	30.0% 3	40.8% 31	32	40.7% 1148
Fairly unimportant	33.6% 890	14.6% 7	35.3% 12	20.0% 2	31.6% 24	16	33.2% 935
Very unimportant	12.1% 320	8.3% 4	2.9% 1	10.0% 1	7.9% 6	4	11.8% 332
Missing	1905	66	25	4	52	0	2052
TOTAL	100.0% 2650	100.0% 48	100.0% 34	100.0% 10	100.0% 76	57	2818

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	Missing	TOTAL
Very important	13.5% 274	16.1% 131	5	14.2% 405
Fairly important	38.8% 787	46.6% 380	14	41.0% 1167
Fairly unimportant	34.3% 696	29.9% 244	10	33.1% 940
Very unimportant	13.4% 272	7.4% 60	4	11.7% 332
Missing	1550	509	0	2059
TOTAL	100.0% 2029	100.0% 815	33	2844