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Southern Focus Poll, Non-South Survey, Fall 1994

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PUMPKINP

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? Pumpkin pie.

	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	343	74.2%	74.2%	-.52
Sometimes eat it	53	11.5%	85.7%	.57
Seldom eat it	30	6.5%	92.2%	1.65
Never eat it	36	7.8%	100%	2.74

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 44	45 to 64	65 or older	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	72.5% 37	71.6% 144	75.6% 102	81.4% 57	74.4% 340
Sometimes eat it	11.8% 6	11.4% 23	11.1% 15	10.0% 7	11.2% 51
Seldom eat it	9.8% 5	9.0% 18	3.7% 5	2.9% 2	6.6% 30
Never eat it	5.9% 3	8.0% 16	9.6% 13	5.7% 4	7.9% 36
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	75.0% 6	60.0% 9	73.2% 115	75.4% 101	75.7% 112	74.2% 343
Sometimes eat it	25.0% 2	26.7% 4	11.5% 18	9.7% 13	10.8% 16	11.5% 53
Seldom eat it	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	7.0% 11	8.2% 11	5.4% 8	6.5% 30
Never eat it	0.0% 0	13.3% 2	8.3% 13	6.7% 9	8.1% 12	7.8% 36
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	75.3% 149	73.5% 194	74.2% 343
Sometimes eat it	10.6% 21	12.1% 32	11.5% 53
Seldom eat it	7.6% 15	5.7% 15	6.5% 30
Never eat it	6.6% 13	8.7% 23	7.8% 36
TOTAL	100.0% 198	100.0% 264	462

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other party	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	81.5% 110	67.5% 102	77.3% 92	63.6% 14	74.5% 318
Sometimes eat it	7.4% 10	16.6% 25	7.6% 9	4.5% 1	10.5% 45
Seldom eat it	8.1% 11	5.3% 8	7.6% 9	9.1% 2	7.0% 30
Never eat it	3.0% 4	10.6% 16	7.6% 9	22.7% 5	8.0% 34
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	78.5% 300	29.4% 10	50.0% 1	72.5% 29	74.2% 340
Sometimes eat it	9.4% 36	35.3% 12	50.0% 1	7.5% 3	11.4% 52
Seldom eat it	6.5% 25	5.9% 2	0.0% 0	7.5% 3	6.6% 30
Never eat it	5.5% 21	29.4% 10	0.0% 0	12.5% 5	7.9% 36
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	73.8% 31	79.9% 127	67.5% 83	55.6% 5	76.3% 58	72.3% 34	74.1% 338
Sometimes eat it	4.8% 2	10.1% 16	13.0% 16	11.1% 1	13.2% 10	14.9% 7	11.4% 52
Seldom eat it	2.4% 1	5.0% 8	7.3% 9	11.1% 1	6.6% 5	12.8% 6	6.6% 30
Never eat it	19.0% 8	5.0% 8	12.2% 15	22.2% 2	3.9% 3	0.0% 0	7.9% 36
TOTAL	100.0% 42	100.0% 159	100.0% 123	100.0% 9	100.0% 76	100.0% 47	456