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

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PIMTNSPR P7A2G. 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) participates in sports?   1) Extremely important   2) Very   3) Somewhat   4) Not very   5) Not important at all   777) Don't know   888) Refused

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Extremely important	477	14.2%	14.2%	-.11
Very	922	27.4%	41.5%	-.09
Somewhat	1111	33%	74.5%	-.08
Not very	492	14.6%	89.1%	-.06
Not important at all	346	10.3%	99.3%	-.05
Don't know	16	.5%	99.8%	11.84
Refused	6	.2%	100%	13.55

Variable Comparisons

Gender Church attendance Religion

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Extremely important	16.4% 278	11.9% 199	14.2% 477
Very	27.5% 467	27.2% 455	27.4% 922
Somewhat	32.7% 556	33.2% 555	33.0% 1111
Not very	12.9% 220	16.3% 272	14.6% 492
Not important at all	9.8% 166	10.8% 180	10.3% 346
Don't know	0.6% 10	0.4% 6	0.5% 16
Refused	0.2% 3	0.2% 3	0.2% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 1700	100.0% 1670	3370

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	No	Yes	TOTAL
Extremely important	14.2% 88	14.1% 388	14.2% 476
Very	23.6% 146	28.1% 772	27.3% 918
Somewhat	30.7% 190	33.5% 919	33.0% 1109
Not very	16.6% 103	14.1% 388	14.6% 491
Not important at all	14.2% 88	9.4% 258	10.3% 346
Don't know	0.5% 3	0.5% 13	0.5% 16
Refused	0.2% 1	0.2% 5	0.2% 6
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	12.2% 128	14.1% 49	16.0% 64	18.1% 148	12.2% 50	11.7% 32	14.3% 471
Very	24.9% 260	29.1% 101	27.0% 108	32.6% 267	21.0% 86	24.5% 67	27.0% 889
Somewhat	35.5% 371	33.4% 116	34.8% 139	30.5% 250	31.0% 127	33.6% 92	33.2% 1095
Not very	16.1% 168	14.7% 51	10.3% 41	11.7% 96	17.1% 70	19.0% 52	14.5% 478
Not important at all	10.2% 107	7.8% 27	11.5% 46	6.8% 56	18.0% 74	10.9% 30	10.3% 340
Don't know	1.0% 10	0.6% 2	0.0% 0	0.2% 2	0.5% 2	0.0% 0	0.5% 16
Refused	0.1% 1	0.3% 1	0.5% 2	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.4% 1	0.2% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 1045	100.0% 347	100.0% 400	100.0% 819	100.0% 410	100.0% 274	3295