National Study of Youth and Religion, Wave 3 (2007-2008)

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LIVEON (liveonown_w3) [IF NEVER MARRIED AND GAVE AN IDEAL AGE TO MARRY] R:29. TEXT: "People have different ideas about what should be accomplished before one is ready to marry. Please tell me how important it is to you, personally, to accomplish each of the following things before getting married. How important is it to [INSERT LIST A-F], [INTERVIEWER MUST READ RESPONSE CATEGORIES: "extremely important, very, somewhat, not very, or not at all important" FOR ‘A' AND ‘B' AND THEN ONLY IF NECESSARY FOR ‘C' THROUGH ‘F'] D. Live on your own awhile before getting married?   1) Extremely important   2) Very   3) Somewhat   4) Not Very   5) Not at all important   777) Don't know   999) Legitimate skip

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Extremely important	349	13.8%	13.8%	-.29
Very	853	33.7%	47.5%	-.29
Somewhat	717	28.3%	75.8%	-.28
Not Very	313	12.4%	88.2%	-.28
Not at all important	111	4.4%	92.5%	-.27
Don't know	1	0%	92.6%	2.68
Legitimate skip	188	7.4%	100%	3.52

Variable Comparisons

Age Sex Religion Church attendance

Age (I-AGE)

	17 or 18 years old	19 years old	20 years old	21 years old	22 years old	23 or 24 years old	TOTAL
Extremely important	14.6% 72	14.2% 71	11.1% 60	13.5% 70	15.9% 66	15.6% 10	13.8% 349
Very	33.3% 164	34.3% 172	38.2% 207	33.8% 175	28.4% 118	26.6% 17	33.7% 853
Somewhat	33.3% 164	28.1% 141	27.1% 147	28.6% 148	26.0% 108	14.1% 9	28.3% 717
Not Very	12.6% 62	15.0% 75	12.9% 70	11.0% 57	10.3% 43	9.4% 6	12.4% 313
Not at all important	4.9% 24	4.8% 24	4.8% 26	4.1% 21	3.1% 13	4.7% 3	4.4% 111
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Legitimate skip	1.2% 6	3.6% 18	5.9% 32	8.7% 45	16.3% 68	29.7% 19	7.4% 188
TOTAL	100.0% 492	100.0% 501	100.0% 542	100.0% 517	100.0% 416	100.0% 64	2532

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Extremely important	12.4% 153	15.1% 196	13.8% 349
Very	33.8% 416	33.6% 437	33.7% 853
Somewhat	30.0% 370	26.7% 347	28.3% 717
Not Very	12.7% 157	12.0% 156	12.4% 313
Not at all important	5.3% 65	3.5% 46	4.4% 111
Don't know	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Legitimate skip	5.7% 70	9.1% 118	7.4% 188
TOTAL	100.0% 1232	100.0% 1300	2532

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Black Protestant	Catholic	Not religious	Other religion	TOTAL
Extremely important	10.6% 76	12.4% 32	22.2% 42	14.4% 64	15.1% 94	13.4% 41	13.8% 349
Very	30.3% 216	33.6% 87	40.7% 77	32.5% 144	37.0% 230	32.5% 99	33.7% 853
Somewhat	28.3% 202	34.4% 89	18.5% 35	28.0% 124	28.9% 180	28.5% 87	28.3% 717
Not Very	16.5% 118	9.3% 24	7.4% 14	12.9% 57	9.2% 57	14.1% 43	12.4% 313
Not at all important	4.3% 31	4.6% 12	5.3% 10	5.4% 24	3.9% 24	3.3% 10	4.4% 111
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Legitimate skip	9.9% 71	5.4% 14	5.8% 11	6.8% 30	5.9% 37	8.2% 25	7.4% 188
TOTAL	100.0% 714	100.0% 259	100.0% 189	100.0% 443	100.0% 622	100.0% 305	2532

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Few times a year	Many times a year	Once a month	2-3 times a month	Once a week or more	TOTAL
Extremely important	13.9% 129	17.1% 85	13.8% 23	12.6% 24	11.5% 30	11.6% 57	13.8% 348
Very	36.2% 335	35.4% 176	34.1% 57	33.2% 63	33.3% 87	27.6% 135	33.7% 853
Somewhat	28.4% 263	27.0% 134	25.7% 43	25.3% 48	31.8% 83	29.8% 146	28.3% 717
Not Very	10.4% 96	9.5% 47	14.4% 24	15.3% 29	12.3% 32	17.3% 85	12.4% 313
Not at all important	4.2% 39	4.6% 23	1.8% 3	6.8% 13	4.6% 12	4.3% 21	4.4% 111
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.6% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 1
Legitimate skip	6.8% 63	6.4% 32	9.6% 16	6.8% 13	6.5% 17	9.4% 46	7.4% 187
TOTAL	100.0% 925	100.0% 497	100.0% 167	100.0% 190	100.0% 261	100.0% 490	2530