Southern Focus Poll, Non-South Survey, Spring 1994

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MORAL People have different ideas about what churches and religious bodies should do. For each of the following, please tell me whether you think it is very important, somewhat important, or not very important for a church or religious body to do that: Provide moral guidance for young people.   1) Very important   2) Somewhat important   3) Not very important   4) Don't know/No answer

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very important	355	84.7%	84.7%	-.38
Somewhat important	47	11.2%	95.9%	1.54
Not very important	14	3.3%	99.3%	3.46
Don't know/No answer	3	.7%	100%	5.38

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Political party Race Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 44	45 to 64	65 or older	TOTAL
Very important	89.7% 35	84.2% 165	85.4% 111	85.4% 41	85.2% 352
Somewhat important	7.7% 3	12.2% 24	10.0% 13	12.5% 6	11.1% 46
Not very important	0.0% 0	3.6% 7	3.1% 4	2.1% 1	2.9% 12
Don't know/No answer	2.6% 1	0.0% 0	1.5% 2	0.0% 0	0.7% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 39	100.0% 196	100.0% 130	100.0% 48	413

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than grade 9	9th to 11th grade	High school graduate	Some college	College graduate or more	TOTAL
Very important	90.0% 9	78.3% 18	89.1% 115	80.2% 77	85.3% 133	85.0% 352
Somewhat important	10.0% 1	21.7% 5	8.5% 11	12.5% 12	10.3% 16	10.9% 45
Not very important	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.3% 3	6.3% 6	3.2% 5	3.4% 14
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.0% 1	1.3% 2	0.7% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 10	100.0% 23	100.0% 129	100.0% 96	100.0% 156	414

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very important	84.2% 171	85.2% 184	84.7% 355
Somewhat important	11.3% 23	11.1% 24	11.2% 47
Not very important	3.4% 7	3.2% 7	3.3% 14
Don't know/No answer	1.0% 2	0.5% 1	0.7% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 203	100.0% 216	419

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other party	Don't know/No answer	TOTAL
Very important	87.5% 98	88.7% 110	79.5% 105	81.8% 18	0.00% 0	84.9% 331
Somewhat important	8.0% 9	8.9% 11	15.2% 20	13.6% 3	0.00% 0	11.0% 43
Not very important	3.6% 4	2.4% 3	3.8% 5	4.5% 1	0.00% 0	3.3% 13
Don't know/No answer	0.9% 1	0.0% 0	1.5% 2	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	0.8% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 112	100.0% 124	100.0% 132	100.0% 22	100.0% 0	390

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black/African-American	Native American/Indian	Other	No answer	TOTAL
Very important	86.6% 311	92.0% 23	25.0% 1	65.4% 17	0.00% 0	85.0% 352
Somewhat important	9.7% 35	8.0% 2	50.0% 2	30.8% 8	0.00% 0	11.4% 47
Not very important	3.1% 11	0.0% 0	25.0% 1	3.8% 1	0.00% 0	3.1% 13
Don't know/No answer	0.6% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	0.5% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 359	100.0% 25	100.0% 4	100.0% 26	100.0% 0	414

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Baptist	Other Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	None	TOTAL
Very important	86.5% 32	88.1% 104	88.8% 119	72.2% 13	86.0% 49	68.8% 33	85.0% 350
Somewhat important	10.8% 4	9.3% 11	10.4% 14	22.2% 4	10.5% 6	16.7% 8	11.4% 47
Not very important	2.7% 1	2.5% 3	0.7% 1	5.6% 1	0.0% 0	14.6% 7	3.2% 13
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	3.5% 2	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 37	100.0% 118	100.0% 134	100.0% 18	100.0% 57	100.0% 48	412