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

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PIMTNCOL P8A2I. 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) someday graduates from college?   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	2065	61.3%	61.3%	-.05
Very	982	29.1%	90.4%	-.01
Somewhat	267	7.9%	98.3%	.03
Not very	24	.7%	99.1%	.07
Not important at all	29	.9%	99.9%	.11
Don't know	1	0%	99.9%	30.51
Refused	2	.1%	100%	34.88

Variable Comparisons

Gender Church attendance Religion

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Extremely important	59.0% 1003	63.6% 1062	61.3% 2065
Very	28.8% 489	29.5% 493	29.1% 982
Somewhat	10.2% 174	5.6% 93	7.9% 267
Not very	0.8% 13	0.7% 11	0.7% 24
Not important at all	1.1% 19	0.6% 10	0.9% 29
Don't know	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Refused	0.1% 1	0.1% 1	0.1% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 1700	100.0% 1670	3370

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	No	Yes	TOTAL
Extremely important	58.3% 361	61.9% 1699	61.3% 2060
Very	30.5% 189	28.9% 792	29.2% 981
Somewhat	8.7% 54	7.7% 211	7.9% 265
Not very	0.8% 5	0.7% 19	0.7% 24
Not important at all	1.3% 8	0.8% 21	0.9% 29
Don't know	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Refused	0.2% 1	0.0% 1	0.1% 2
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	55.3% 578	62.0% 215	72.0% 288	65.8% 539	54.6% 224	64.2% 176	61.3% 2020
Very	32.3% 338	29.1% 101	22.0% 88	27.6% 226	33.2% 136	25.5% 70	29.1% 959
Somewhat	11.1% 116	7.5% 26	5.3% 21	4.9% 40	9.3% 38	8.0% 22	8.0% 263
Not very	0.6% 6	0.6% 2	0.0% 0	0.7% 6	1.2% 5	1.1% 3	0.7% 22
Not important at all	0.7% 7	0.6% 2	0.8% 3	0.9% 7	1.5% 6	1.1% 3	0.8% 28
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Refused	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 1045	100.0% 347	100.0% 400	100.0% 819	100.0% 410	100.0% 274	3295