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Southern Focus Poll, 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	173	18.4%	18.4%	-1.69
Sometimes eat it	135	14.4%	32.8%	-.88
Seldom eat it	86	9.2%	42%	-.08
Never eat it	514	54.8%	96.8%	.72
Don't know/No answer	30	3.2%	100%	1.53

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 44	45 to 64	65 or older	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	5.2% 5	11.8% 48	25.1% 69	31.3% 46	18.1% 168
Sometimes eat it	4.1% 4	14.3% 58	16.4% 45	15.6% 23	14.0% 130
Seldom eat it	3.1% 3	9.1% 37	10.9% 30	10.9% 16	9.3% 86
Never eat it	84.5% 82	61.4% 250	44.4% 122	39.5% 58	55.3% 512
Don't know/No answer	3.1% 3	3.4% 14	3.3% 9	2.7% 4	3.2% 30
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	15.6% 5	25.0% 22	14.5% 43	20.2% 48	19.2% 54	18.4% 172
Sometimes eat it	12.5% 4	11.4% 10	13.5% 40	13.0% 31	17.4% 49	14.3% 134
Seldom eat it	3.1% 1	3.4% 3	6.8% 20	9.2% 22	14.2% 40	9.2% 86
Never eat it	59.4% 19	58.0% 51	62.2% 184	55.5% 132	45.2% 127	54.9% 513
Don't know/No answer	9.4% 3	2.3% 2	3.0% 9	2.1% 5	3.9% 11	3.2% 30
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	13.8% 53	21.7% 120	18.4% 173
Sometimes eat it	9.6% 37	17.7% 98	14.4% 135
Seldom eat it	10.2% 39	8.5% 47	9.2% 86
Never eat it	62.5% 240	49.5% 274	54.8% 514
Don't know/No answer	3.9% 15	2.7% 15	3.2% 30
TOTAL	100.0% 384	100.0% 554	938

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other party	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	17.5% 51	19.7% 59	17.6% 41	22.6% 12	18.6% 163
Sometimes eat it	16.1% 47	12.7% 38	15.5% 36	13.2% 7	14.6% 128
Seldom eat it	9.2% 27	8.0% 24	11.2% 26	9.4% 5	9.3% 82
Never eat it	54.1% 158	56.0% 168	52.4% 122	54.7% 29	54.3% 477
Don't know/No answer	3.1% 9	3.7% 11	3.4% 8	0.0% 0	3.2% 28
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	19.4% 144	14.6% 18	16.7% 1	12.3% 7	18.3% 170
Sometimes eat it	15.6% 116	7.3% 9	16.7% 1	12.3% 7	14.3% 133
Seldom eat it	10.0% 74	4.9% 6	0.0% 0	10.5% 6	9.3% 86
Never eat it	51.9% 385	69.9% 86	66.7% 4	59.6% 34	54.8% 509
Don't know/No answer	3.1% 23	3.3% 4	0.0% 0	5.3% 3	3.2% 30
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	21.3% 72	19.9% 55	15.7% 17	16.7% 1	13.4% 19	15.0% 9	18.6% 173
Sometimes eat it	14.8% 50	16.7% 46	10.2% 11	0.0% 0	13.4% 19	13.3% 8	14.4% 134
Seldom eat it	6.8% 23	12.0% 33	8.3% 9	33.3% 2	9.9% 14	8.3% 5	9.2% 86
Never eat it	53.3% 180	49.3% 136	62.0% 67	50.0% 3	59.2% 84	61.7% 37	54.5% 507
Don't know/No answer	3.8% 13	2.2% 6	3.7% 4	0.0% 0	4.2% 6	1.7% 1	3.2% 30
TOTAL	100.0% 338	100.0% 276	100.0% 108	100.0% 6	100.0% 142	100.0% 60	930