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Southern Focus Poll, Non-South Survey, Fall 1994

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FCAKE

Food is an important part of many people's Christmas or Hanukkah holidays. For each of the foods I'm going to mention, would you tell me whether you usually eat it at the holidays, sometimes eat it, seldom eat it, or have never eaten it? Fruitcake.

	1) Usually eat it at the holidays
	2) Sometimes eat it
	3) Seldom eat it
	4) Never eat it

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Usually eat it at the holidays	85	18.4%	18.4%	-1.64
Sometimes eat it	78	16.9%	35.3%	-.76
Seldom eat it	112	24.2%	59.5%	.12
Never eat it	187	40.5%	100%	.99

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 44	45 to 64	65 or older	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	5.9% 3	7.0% 14	32.6% 44	32.9% 23	18.4% 84
Sometimes eat it	15.7% 8	12.4% 25	20.0% 27	24.3% 17	16.8% 77
Seldom eat it	21.6% 11	25.4% 51	24.4% 33	20.0% 14	23.9% 109
Never eat it	56.9% 29	55.2% 111	23.0% 31	22.9% 16	40.9% 187
TOTAL	100.0% 51	100.0% 201	100.0% 135	100.0% 70	457

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than grade 9	9th to 11th grade	High school graduate	Some college	College grad or more	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	37.5% 3	20.0% 3	22.3% 35	17.9% 24	13.5% 20	18.4% 85
Sometimes eat it	25.0% 2	6.7% 1	16.6% 26	14.2% 19	20.3% 30	16.9% 78
Seldom eat it	12.5% 1	13.3% 2	21.0% 33	26.9% 36	27.0% 40	24.2% 112
Never eat it	25.0% 2	60.0% 9	40.1% 63	41.0% 55	39.2% 58	40.5% 187
TOTAL	100.0% 8	100.0% 15	100.0% 157	100.0% 134	100.0% 148	462

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	15.2% 30	20.8% 55	18.4% 85
Sometimes eat it	18.2% 36	15.9% 42	16.9% 78
Seldom eat it	32.8% 65	17.8% 47	24.2% 112
Never eat it	33.8% 67	45.5% 120	40.5% 187
TOTAL	100.0% 198	100.0% 264	462

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other party	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	19.3% 26	19.2% 29	16.8% 20	22.7% 5	18.7% 80
Sometimes eat it	23.0% 31	14.6% 22	16.0% 19	4.5% 1	17.1% 73
Seldom eat it	21.5% 29	23.8% 36	29.4% 35	22.7% 5	24.6% 105
Never eat it	36.3% 49	42.4% 64	37.8% 45	50.0% 11	39.6% 169
TOTAL	100.0% 135	100.0% 151	100.0% 119	100.0% 22	427

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black/African-American	Native American/Indian	Other	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	17.5% 67	17.6% 6	0.0% 0	30.0% 12	18.6% 85
Sometimes eat it	16.8% 64	17.6% 6	0.0% 0	17.5% 7	16.8% 77
Seldom eat it	25.7% 98	17.6% 6	0.0% 0	17.5% 7	24.2% 111
Never eat it	40.1% 153	47.1% 16	100.0% 2	35.0% 14	40.4% 185
TOTAL	100.0% 382	100.0% 34	100.0% 2	100.0% 40	458

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Baptist	Other Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	None	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	28.6% 12	18.9% 30	17.9% 22	0.0% 0	17.1% 13	14.9% 7	18.4% 84
Sometimes eat it	9.5% 4	17.6% 28	16.3% 20	0.0% 0	23.7% 18	17.0% 8	17.1% 78
Seldom eat it	19.0% 8	23.3% 37	26.0% 32	77.8% 7	17.1% 13	29.8% 14	24.3% 111
Never eat it	42.9% 18	40.3% 64	39.8% 49	22.2% 2	42.1% 32	38.3% 18	40.1% 183
TOTAL	100.0% 42	100.0% 159	100.0% 123	100.0% 9	100.0% 76	100.0% 47	456