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Southern Focus Poll, Non-South Survey, Fall 1994

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MINCEPIE

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? Mince pie.

	1) Usually eat it at the holidays
	2) Sometimes eat it
	3) Seldom eat it
	4) Never eat it
	5) Don't know/No answer

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Usually eat it at the holidays	54	11.7%	11.7%	-2.08
Sometimes eat it	62	13.4%	25.1%	-1.15
Seldom eat it	67	14.5%	39.6%	-.22
Never eat it	277	60%	99.6%	.7
Don't know/No answer	2	.4%	100%	1.63

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 44	45 to 64	65 or older	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	2.0% 1	4.0% 8	17.0% 23	30.0% 21	11.6% 53
Sometimes eat it	11.8% 6	10.9% 22	15.6% 21	17.1% 12	13.3% 61
Seldom eat it	3.9% 2	12.4% 25	20.0% 27	17.1% 12	14.4% 66
Never eat it	80.4% 41	72.1% 145	47.4% 64	35.7% 25	60.2% 275
Don't know/No answer	2.0% 1	0.5% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.4% 2
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	25.0% 2	6.7% 1	15.3% 24	10.4% 14	8.8% 13	11.7% 54
Sometimes eat it	12.5% 1	0.0% 0	10.8% 17	13.4% 18	17.6% 26	13.4% 62
Seldom eat it	0.0% 0	13.3% 2	14.6% 23	14.9% 20	14.9% 22	14.5% 67
Never eat it	62.5% 5	73.3% 11	59.2% 93	60.4% 81	58.8% 87	60.0% 277
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	6.7% 1	0.0% 0	0.7% 1	0.0% 0	0.4% 2
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	7.6% 15	14.8% 39	11.7% 54
Sometimes eat it	13.6% 27	13.3% 35	13.4% 62
Seldom eat it	20.2% 40	10.2% 27	14.5% 67
Never eat it	58.6% 116	61.0% 161	60.0% 277
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	0.8% 2	0.4% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 198	100.0% 264	462

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other party	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	8.9% 12	14.6% 22	10.9% 13	13.6% 3	11.7% 50
Sometimes eat it	15.6% 21	12.6% 19	13.4% 16	9.1% 2	13.6% 58
Seldom eat it	17.0% 23	10.6% 16	17.6% 21	13.6% 3	14.8% 63
Never eat it	57.8% 78	62.3% 94	58.0% 69	63.6% 14	59.7% 255
Don't know/No answer	0.7% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1
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	12.3% 47	2.9% 1	0.0% 0	15.0% 6	11.8% 54
Sometimes eat it	14.7% 56	2.9% 1	0.0% 0	12.5% 5	13.5% 62
Seldom eat it	16.2% 62	5.9% 2	0.0% 0	7.5% 3	14.6% 67
Never eat it	56.5% 216	88.2% 30	100.0% 2	62.5% 25	59.6% 273
Don't know/No answer	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.5% 1	0.4% 2
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	21.4% 9	11.9% 19	10.6% 13	0.0% 0	5.3% 4	17.0% 8	11.6% 53
Sometimes eat it	9.5% 4	18.9% 30	5.7% 7	0.0% 0	18.4% 14	14.9% 7	13.6% 62
Seldom eat it	9.5% 4	15.1% 24	13.8% 17	22.2% 2	18.4% 14	12.8% 6	14.7% 67
Never eat it	59.5% 25	53.5% 85	69.9% 86	77.8% 7	56.6% 43	55.3% 26	59.6% 272
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	0.6% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.4% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 42	100.0% 159	100.0% 123	100.0% 9	100.0% 76	100.0% 47	456