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Southern Focus Poll, Non-South Survey, Fall 1994

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AMBROSIA

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? Ambrosia.

	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	30	6.5%	6.5%	-2.55
Sometimes eat it	57	12.3%	18.8%	-1.52
Seldom eat it	49	10.6%	29.4%	-.49
Never eat it	313	67.7%	97.2%	.53
Don't know/No answer	13	2.8%	100%	1.56

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	8.9% 12	12.9% 9	6.6% 30
Sometimes eat it	7.8% 4	11.4% 23	16.3% 22	11.4% 8	12.5% 57
Seldom eat it	13.7% 7	10.0% 20	8.9% 12	11.4% 8	10.3% 47
Never eat it	68.6% 35	72.1% 145	64.4% 87	61.4% 43	67.8% 310
Don't know/No answer	7.8% 4	2.5% 5	1.5% 2	2.9% 2	2.8% 13
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	8.3% 13	5.2% 7	6.1% 9	6.5% 30
Sometimes eat it	12.5% 1	0.0% 0	7.6% 12	13.4% 18	17.6% 26	12.3% 57
Seldom eat it	12.5% 1	0.0% 0	7.0% 11	11.9% 16	14.2% 21	10.6% 49
Never eat it	75.0% 6	93.3% 14	75.8% 119	61.9% 83	61.5% 91	67.7% 313
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.3% 2	7.5% 10	0.7% 1	2.8% 13
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	4.5% 9	8.0% 21	6.5% 30
Sometimes eat it	10.1% 20	14.0% 37	12.3% 57
Seldom eat it	11.6% 23	9.8% 26	10.6% 49
Never eat it	71.2% 141	65.2% 172	67.7% 313
Don't know/No answer	2.5% 5	3.0% 8	2.8% 13
TOTAL	100.0% 198	100.0% 264	462

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other party	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	10.4% 14	6.6% 10	4.2% 5	4.5% 1	7.0% 30
Sometimes eat it	15.6% 21	11.9% 18	11.8% 14	9.1% 2	12.9% 55
Seldom eat it	13.3% 18	7.9% 12	10.9% 13	9.1% 2	10.5% 45
Never eat it	58.5% 79	70.9% 107	70.6% 84	68.2% 15	66.7% 285
Don't know/No answer	2.2% 3	2.6% 4	2.5% 3	9.1% 2	2.8% 12
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	6.5% 25	2.9% 1	0.0% 0	10.0% 4	6.6% 30
Sometimes eat it	12.8% 49	5.9% 2	0.0% 0	15.0% 6	12.4% 57
Seldom eat it	11.5% 44	5.9% 2	0.0% 0	5.0% 2	10.5% 48
Never eat it	66.2% 253	82.4% 28	100.0% 2	67.5% 27	67.7% 310
Don't know/No answer	2.9% 11	2.9% 1	0.0% 0	2.5% 1	2.8% 13
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	9.5% 4	5.7% 9	7.3% 9	0.0% 0	9.2% 7	2.1% 1	6.6% 30
Sometimes eat it	9.5% 4	10.7% 17	14.6% 18	11.1% 1	17.1% 13	6.4% 3	12.3% 56
Seldom eat it	4.8% 2	11.9% 19	11.4% 14	22.2% 2	9.2% 7	10.6% 5	10.7% 49
Never eat it	76.2% 32	67.9% 108	65.0% 80	66.7% 6	59.2% 45	80.9% 38	67.8% 309
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	3.8% 6	1.6% 2	0.0% 0	5.3% 4	0.0% 0	2.6% 12
TOTAL	100.0% 42	100.0% 159	100.0% 123	100.0% 9	100.0% 76	100.0% 47	456