Portraits of American Life Study, Merged Dataset, 2006-2012

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HELNOW1 [Wave 1] In the past 12 months, for which people, if any, have you helped directly by giving some of your time? None   -7) Refused   -4) Don't know   0) No   1) Yes

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Refused	1	.1%	.1%	-21.19
Don't know	1	.1%	.2%	-12.18
No	1227	93.4%	93.5%	-.17
Yes	85	6.5%	100%	2.83

Variable Comparisons

Education Political party Gender Race Religion

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	GED or high school diploma	Vocational/technical diploma or associate degree	Bachelor's	Graduate degree	TOTAL
Refused	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 1	0.1% 1
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
No	80.2% 77	92.7% 368	94.3% 280	94.7% 288	96.9% 185	93.2% 1198
Yes	19.8% 19	7.3% 29	5.7% 17	4.9% 15	2.6% 5	6.6% 85
TOTAL	100.0% 96	100.0% 397	100.0% 297	100.0% 304	100.0% 191	1285

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Democrat	Neither	Republican	TOTAL
Refused	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
Don't know	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
No	92.9% 677	93.2% 179	95.2% 357	93.6% 1213
Yes	6.9% 50	6.8% 13	4.8% 18	6.3% 81
TOTAL	100.0% 729	100.0% 192	100.0% 375	1296

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Female	Male	TOTAL
Refused	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.1% 1
Don't know	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
No	92.7% 761	94.5% 466	93.4% 1227
Yes	7.2% 59	5.3% 26	6.5% 85
TOTAL	100.0% 821	100.0% 493	1314

Race (I-RACE)

	White/Caucasian/Anglo	Black/African American	Hispanic/Latino(a)	Asian/Asian American	TOTAL
Refused	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
Don't know	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
No	95.2% 690	95.1% 253	85.8% 181	92.3% 96	93.4% 1220
Yes	4.6% 33	4.9% 13	14.2% 30	7.7% 8	6.4% 84
TOTAL	100.0% 725	100.0% 266	100.0% 211	100.0% 104	1306

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Black Protestant	Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Catholic	Other faith	Nonaffiliated	TOTAL
Refused	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.8% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
No	92.6% 113	95.2% 277	93.2% 110	91.0% 294	93.5% 187	94.6% 246	93.4% 1227
Yes	7.4% 9	4.5% 13	5.9% 7	9.0% 29	6.5% 13	5.4% 14	6.5% 85
TOTAL	100.0% 122	100.0% 291	100.0% 118	100.0% 323	100.0% 200	100.0% 260	1314