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Southern Focus Poll, Non-South Survey, Fall 1994

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BCUSTARD

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? Boiled custard.

	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	18	3.9%	3.9%	-3.25
Sometimes eat it	34	7.4%	11.3%	-2.01
Seldom eat it	63	13.6%	24.9%	-.76
Never eat it	341	73.8%	98.7%	.48
Don't know/No answer	6	1.3%	100%	1.73

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 44	45 to 64	65 or older	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	0.0% 0	2.5% 5	5.2% 7	8.6% 6	3.9% 18
Sometimes eat it	5.9% 3	9.5% 19	5.9% 8	5.7% 4	7.4% 34
Seldom eat it	17.6% 9	8.5% 17	15.6% 21	20.0% 14	13.3% 61
Never eat it	76.5% 39	79.1% 159	70.4% 95	64.3% 45	74.0% 338
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	0.5% 1	3.0% 4	1.4% 1	1.3% 6
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	0.0% 0	6.7% 1	5.7% 9	0.7% 1	4.7% 7	3.9% 18
Sometimes eat it	12.5% 1	0.0% 0	5.1% 8	13.4% 18	4.7% 7	7.4% 34
Seldom eat it	12.5% 1	6.7% 1	14.0% 22	11.9% 16	15.5% 23	13.6% 63
Never eat it	75.0% 6	80.0% 12	75.2% 118	72.4% 97	73.0% 108	73.8% 341
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	6.7% 1	0.0% 0	1.5% 2	2.0% 3	1.3% 6
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	2.0% 4	5.3% 14	3.9% 18
Sometimes eat it	10.6% 21	4.9% 13	7.4% 34
Seldom eat it	16.2% 32	11.7% 31	13.6% 63
Never eat it	69.2% 137	77.3% 204	73.8% 341
Don't know/No answer	2.0% 4	0.8% 2	1.3% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 198	100.0% 264	462

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other party	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	5.2% 7	3.3% 5	2.5% 3	4.5% 1	3.7% 16
Sometimes eat it	8.9% 12	5.3% 8	5.0% 6	22.7% 5	7.3% 31
Seldom eat it	13.3% 18	10.6% 16	21.0% 25	4.5% 1	14.1% 60
Never eat it	71.1% 96	79.5% 120	70.6% 84	68.2% 15	73.8% 315
Don't know/No answer	1.5% 2	1.3% 2	0.8% 1	0.0% 0	1.2% 5
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	3.7% 14	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	10.0% 4	3.9% 18
Sometimes eat it	7.1% 27	14.7% 5	0.0% 0	2.5% 1	7.2% 33
Seldom eat it	14.4% 55	5.9% 2	0.0% 0	12.5% 5	13.5% 62
Never eat it	74.1% 283	79.4% 27	50.0% 1	70.0% 28	74.0% 339
Don't know/No answer	0.8% 3	0.0% 0	50.0% 1	5.0% 2	1.3% 6
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	4.8% 2	3.1% 5	3.3% 4	0.0% 0	7.9% 6	2.1% 1	3.9% 18
Sometimes eat it	14.3% 6	5.7% 9	6.5% 8	0.0% 0	6.6% 5	10.6% 5	7.2% 33
Seldom eat it	11.9% 5	18.2% 29	10.6% 13	22.2% 2	9.2% 7	14.9% 7	13.8% 63
Never eat it	66.7% 28	71.7% 114	78.9% 97	77.8% 7	75.0% 57	70.2% 33	73.7% 336
Don't know/No answer	2.4% 1	1.3% 2	0.8% 1	0.0% 0	1.3% 1	2.1% 1	1.3% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 42	100.0% 159	100.0% 123	100.0% 9	100.0% 76	100.0% 47	456