National Study of Youth and Religion, Wave 1 (2003)

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PIMTNVOL P7A2E. Now I am going to read you a list of things some parents think are important and others do not. Please tell me how important or not each is to you. How important or not important is it to you that (your teen) does volunteer work or community service?   1) Extremely important   2) Very   3) Somewhat   4) Not very   5) Not important at all   777) Don't know   888) Refused

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Extremely important	566	16.8%	16.8%	-.09
Very	1397	41.5%	58.2%	-.07
Somewhat	1161	34.5%	92.7%	-.06
Not very	153	4.5%	97.2%	-.04
Not important at all	77	2.3%	99.5%	-.02
Don't know	9	.3%	99.8%	13.59
Refused	7	.2%	100%	15.54

Variable Comparisons

Gender Church attendance Religion

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Extremely important	15.9% 271	17.7% 295	16.8% 566
Very	42.1% 716	40.8% 681	41.5% 1397
Somewhat	34.5% 586	34.4% 575	34.5% 1161
Not very	4.8% 81	4.3% 72	4.5% 153
Not important at all	2.3% 39	2.3% 38	2.3% 77
Don't know	0.2% 3	0.4% 6	0.3% 9
Refused	0.2% 4	0.2% 3	0.2% 7
TOTAL	100.0% 1700	100.0% 1670	3370

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	No	Yes	TOTAL
Extremely important	14.4% 89	17.4% 477	16.8% 566
Very	36.5% 226	42.6% 1169	41.5% 1395
Somewhat	38.6% 239	33.5% 918	34.4% 1157
Not very	6.3% 39	4.1% 112	4.5% 151
Not important at all	3.9% 24	1.9% 53	2.3% 77
Don't know	0.2% 1	0.3% 8	0.3% 9
Refused	0.2% 1	0.2% 6	0.2% 7
TOTAL	100.0% 619	100.0% 2743	3362

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Conservative Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Black Protestant	Catholic	Not religious	Other relig	TOTAL
Extremely important	16.3% 170	17.3% 60	18.8% 75	17.9% 147	10.5% 43	24.5% 67	17.1% 562
Very	40.5% 423	44.4% 154	38.3% 153	43.8% 359	36.8% 151	47.1% 129	41.5% 1369
Somewhat	36.6% 382	32.6% 113	34.0% 136	32.4% 265	39.8% 163	24.8% 68	34.2% 1127
Not very	4.4% 46	4.0% 14	4.3% 17	3.4% 28	8.0% 33	2.9% 8	4.4% 146
Not important at all	1.9% 20	1.4% 5	4.0% 16	1.8% 15	4.4% 18	0.4% 1	2.3% 75
Don't know	0.3% 3	0.0% 0	0.5% 2	0.4% 3	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.3% 9
Refused	0.1% 1	0.3% 1	0.3% 1	0.2% 2	0.2% 1	0.4% 1	0.2% 7
TOTAL	100.0% 1045	100.0% 347	100.0% 400	100.0% 819	100.0% 410	100.0% 274	3295