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Southern Focus Poll, South Survey, Fall 1994

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FRUTCAKE

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? Fruitcake.

	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	251	26.8%	26.8%	-1.35
Sometimes eat it	165	17.6%	44.3%	-.52
Seldom eat it	204	21.7%	66.1%	.31
Never eat it	316	33.7%	99.8%	1.14
Don't know/No answer	2	.2%	100%	1.96

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 44	45 to 64	65 or older	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	7.2% 7	15.0% 61	38.5% 106	51.7% 76	27.0% 250
Sometimes eat it	10.3% 10	17.2% 70	19.6% 54	18.4% 27	17.4% 161
Seldom eat it	14.4% 14	25.8% 105	22.9% 63	14.3% 21	21.9% 203
Never eat it	67.0% 65	42.0% 171	18.9% 52	15.0% 22	33.5% 310
Don't know/No answer	1.0% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.7% 1	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 97	100.0% 407	100.0% 275	100.0% 147	926

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than grade 9	9th to 11th grade	High school graduate	Some college	College graduate or more	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	50.0% 16	44.3% 39	25.0% 74	22.3% 53	24.2% 68	26.7% 250
Sometimes eat it	18.8% 6	15.9% 14	16.6% 49	15.5% 37	20.3% 57	17.4% 163
Seldom eat it	12.5% 4	15.9% 14	19.6% 58	22.7% 54	26.3% 74	21.8% 204
Never eat it	15.6% 5	23.9% 21	38.5% 114	39.5% 94	29.2% 82	33.8% 316
Don't know/No answer	3.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 32	100.0% 88	100.0% 296	100.0% 238	100.0% 281	935

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	25.5% 98	27.6% 153	26.8% 251
Sometimes eat it	17.4% 67	17.7% 98	17.6% 165
Seldom eat it	25.5% 98	19.1% 106	21.7% 204
Never eat it	31.0% 119	35.6% 197	33.7% 316
Don't know/No answer	0.5% 2	0.0% 0	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 384	100.0% 554	938

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other party	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	24.0% 70	31.7% 95	25.8% 60	17.0% 9	26.7% 234
Sometimes eat it	16.1% 47	16.3% 49	23.2% 54	13.2% 7	17.9% 157
Seldom eat it	25.3% 74	19.7% 59	20.2% 47	22.6% 12	21.9% 192
Never eat it	34.6% 101	32.3% 97	30.5% 71	45.3% 24	33.4% 293
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.4% 1	1.9% 1	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 292	100.0% 300	100.0% 233	100.0% 53	878

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black/African-American	Native American/Indian	Other	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	27.8% 206	21.1% 26	50.0% 3	22.8% 13	26.7% 248
Sometimes eat it	18.1% 134	14.6% 18	16.7% 1	19.3% 11	17.7% 164
Seldom eat it	21.6% 160	19.5% 24	33.3% 2	28.1% 16	21.8% 202
Never eat it	32.5% 241	44.7% 55	0.0% 0	29.8% 17	33.7% 313
Don't know/No answer	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 742	100.0% 123	100.0% 6	100.0% 57	928

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Baptist	Other Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	None	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	31.7% 107	27.9% 77	20.4% 22	16.7% 1	21.8% 31	21.7% 13	27.0% 251
Sometimes eat it	18.0% 61	17.0% 47	17.6% 19	16.7% 1	18.3% 26	15.0% 9	17.5% 163
Seldom eat it	19.5% 66	23.9% 66	27.8% 30	0.0% 0	20.4% 29	20.0% 12	21.8% 203
Never eat it	30.8% 104	30.8% 85	33.3% 36	66.7% 4	39.4% 56	43.3% 26	33.4% 311
Don't know/No answer	0.0% 0	0.4% 1	0.9% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 338	100.0% 276	100.0% 108	100.0% 6	100.0% 142	100.0% 60	930