Southern Focus Poll, Non-South Survey, Fall 1996

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CHRCHIMP Overall, how important would you say that participation in a church or other organized religious community is in your life? Would you say that it's extremely important, very important, somewhat important, or not important?   1) Extremely important   2) Very important   3) Somewhat important   4) Not important   5) Don't know/ No answer

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Extremely important	76	18%	18%	-1.53
Very important	119	28.2%	46.2%	-.57
Somewhat important	125	29.6%	75.8%	.38
Not important	100	23.7%	99.5%	1.33
Don't know/ No answer	2	.5%	100%	2.28

Variable Comparisons

Age Gender Marital status Race Education Political party

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 44	45 to 64	65 or older	TOTAL
Extremely important	19.0% 8	18.8% 34	19.1% 26	13.6% 8	18.2% 76
Very important	31.0% 13	22.7% 41	27.9% 38	44.1% 26	28.2% 118
Somewhat important	28.6% 12	32.0% 58	29.4% 40	22.0% 13	29.4% 123
Not important	21.4% 9	25.4% 46	23.5% 32	20.3% 12	23.7% 99
Don't know/ No answer	0.0% 0	1.1% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 42	100.0% 181	100.0% 136	100.0% 59	418

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Extremely important	16.5% 29	19.1% 47	18.0% 76
Very important	22.7% 40	32.1% 79	28.2% 119
Somewhat important	29.5% 52	29.7% 73	29.6% 125
Not important	30.1% 53	19.1% 47	23.7% 100
Don't know/ No answer	1.1% 2	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 176	100.0% 246	422

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Single	TOTAL
Extremely important	20.9% 49	20.5% 9	0.0% 0	10.5% 4	14.6% 14	18.1% 76
Very important	29.5% 69	22.7% 10	75.0% 6	44.7% 17	17.7% 17	28.3% 119
Somewhat important	29.1% 68	29.5% 13	25.0% 2	26.3% 10	33.3% 32	29.8% 125
Not important	19.7% 46	27.3% 12	0.0% 0	18.4% 7	34.4% 33	23.3% 98
Don't know/ No answer	0.9% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 234	100.0% 44	100.0% 8	100.0% 38	100.0% 96	420

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black/African-American	Native American/Indian	Other	TOTAL
Extremely important	15.9% 55	35.5% 11	0.0% 0	23.8% 10	18.1% 76
Very important	27.8% 96	38.7% 12	0.0% 0	21.4% 9	27.9% 117
Somewhat important	31.9% 110	12.9% 4	100.0% 1	21.4% 9	29.6% 124
Not important	23.8% 82	12.9% 4	0.0% 0	33.3% 14	23.9% 100
Don't know/ No answer	0.6% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 345	100.0% 31	100.0% 1	100.0% 42	419

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college	College graduate or more	TOTAL
Extremely important	25.9% 7	16.7% 21	20.0% 23	16.4% 25	18.1% 76
Very important	25.9% 7	30.2% 38	32.2% 37	24.3% 37	28.3% 119
Somewhat important	33.3% 9	27.0% 34	23.5% 27	35.5% 54	29.5% 124
Not important	14.8% 4	24.6% 31	24.3% 28	23.7% 36	23.6% 99
Don't know/ No answer	0.0% 0	1.6% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 27	100.0% 126	100.0% 115	100.0% 152	420

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other	TOTAL
Extremely important	22.7% 25	16.7% 24	8.1% 9	31.6% 6	16.7% 64
Very important	28.2% 31	30.6% 44	27.0% 30	21.1% 4	28.4% 109
Somewhat important	24.5% 27	31.3% 45	36.0% 40	15.8% 3	29.9% 115
Not important	23.6% 26	21.5% 31	27.9% 31	31.6% 6	24.5% 94
Don't know/ No answer	0.9% 1	0.0% 0	0.9% 1	0.0% 0	0.5% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 110	100.0% 144	100.0% 111	100.0% 19	384