Southern Focus Poll, South Survey, Fall 1996

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CHRCHIMP Overall, how important would you say that participation in a church or other organized religious community is in your life? Would you say that it's extremely important, very important, somewhat important, or not important?   1) Extremely important   2) Very important   3) Somewhat important   4) Not important   5) DK/No Answer

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Extremely important	232	29%	29%	-1.18
Very important	265	33.1%	62.1%	-.23
Somewhat important	188	23.5%	85.6%	.71
Not important	103	12.9%	98.5%	1.66
DK/No Answer	12	1.5%	100%	2.61

Variable Comparisons

Church attendance Education Gender Household income Political party Race

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Attend 0-2 hours	Attend 3-4 hours	Attend over 5 hours	TOTAL
Extremely important	29.7% 33	52.4% 66	69.2% 90	51.5% 189
Very important	55.9% 62	45.2% 57	28.5% 37	42.5% 156
Somewhat important	12.6% 14	2.4% 3	0.8% 1	4.9% 18
Not important	1.8% 2	0.0% 0	0.8% 1	0.8% 3
DK/No Answer	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.8% 1	0.3% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 111	100.0% 126	100.0% 130	367

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than Grade 9	Grade 9 to 11	High School Grad	Some College	College Grad or More	TOTAL
Extremely important	29.0% 9	24.6% 16	32.0% 73	29.6% 66	26.7% 66	29.0% 230
Very important	35.5% 11	35.4% 23	35.5% 81	31.4% 70	31.6% 78	33.1% 263
Somewhat important	16.1% 5	20.0% 13	22.8% 52	23.8% 53	25.9% 64	23.6% 187
Not important	9.7% 3	16.9% 11	8.8% 20	13.5% 30	15.4% 38	12.8% 102
DK/No Answer	9.7% 3	3.1% 2	0.9% 2	1.8% 4	0.4% 1	1.5% 12
TOTAL	100.0% 31	100.0% 65	100.0% 228	100.0% 223	100.0% 247	794

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Extremely important	25.3% 84	31.6% 148	29.0% 232
Very important	31.0% 103	34.6% 162	33.1% 265
Somewhat important	26.2% 87	21.6% 101	23.5% 188
Not important	16.3% 54	10.5% 49	12.9% 103
DK/No Answer	1.2% 4	1.7% 8	1.5% 12
TOTAL	100.0% 332	100.0% 468	800

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Less than $19,999	$20,000 up to $29,999	$30,000 up to $39,999	$40,000 up to $49,999	$50,000 up to $59,999	More than $60,000	TOTAL
Extremely important	29.1% 51	34.4% 45	28.9% 26	32.1% 26	30.0% 21	19.6% 29	28.5% 198
Very important	37.1% 65	27.5% 36	30.0% 27	32.1% 26	44.3% 31	32.4% 48	33.5% 233
Somewhat important	20.0% 35	24.4% 32	27.8% 25	24.7% 20	12.9% 9	28.4% 42	23.5% 163
Not important	11.4% 20	13.0% 17	12.2% 11	11.1% 9	10.0% 7	19.6% 29	13.4% 93
DK/No Answer	2.3% 4	0.8% 1	1.1% 1	0.0% 0	2.9% 2	0.0% 0	1.2% 8
TOTAL	100.0% 175	100.0% 131	100.0% 90	100.0% 81	100.0% 70	100.0% 148	695

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other Party	Don't Know	TOTAL
Extremely important	34.9% 89	28.3% 76	22.5% 36	28.6% 12	25.7% 19	29.0% 232
Very important	31.4% 80	33.1% 89	35.6% 57	31.0% 13	35.1% 26	33.1% 265
Somewhat important	23.9% 61	22.3% 60	25.6% 41	14.3% 6	27.0% 20	23.5% 188
Not important	9.0% 23	15.2% 41	15.6% 25	23.8% 10	5.4% 4	12.9% 103
DK/No Answer	0.8% 2	1.1% 3	0.6% 1	2.4% 1	6.8% 5	1.5% 12
TOTAL	100.0% 255	100.0% 269	100.0% 160	100.0% 42	100.0% 74	800

Race (I-RACE)

	White/Caucasian	Black, African-American, Colored, Etc.	Native American/Indian	Asian/Oriental	Other	TOTAL
Extremely important	27.2% 172	40.2% 43	33.3% 3	0.0% 0	28.2% 11	28.8% 229
Very important	32.5% 206	39.3% 42	33.3% 3	50.0% 3	25.6% 10	33.2% 264
Somewhat important	24.8% 157	12.1% 13	11.1% 1	50.0% 3	33.3% 13	23.6% 187
Not important	14.1% 89	6.5% 7	22.2% 2	0.0% 0	12.8% 5	13.0% 103
DK/No Answer	1.4% 9	1.9% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.4% 11
TOTAL	100.0% 633	100.0% 107	100.0% 9	100.0% 6	100.0% 39	794