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Southern Focus Poll, South Survey, Fall 1994

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EGGNOG

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? Eggnog.

	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	323	34.4%	34.4%	-1.14
Sometimes eat it	188	20%	54.5%	-.34
Seldom eat it	133	14.2%	68.7%	.46
Never eat it	294	31.3%	100%	1.26

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 44	45 to 64	65 or older	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	36.1% 35	36.4% 148	34.9% 96	27.9% 41	34.6% 320
Sometimes eat it	19.6% 19	19.7% 80	20.7% 57	18.4% 27	19.8% 183
Seldom eat it	8.2% 8	16.2% 66	13.5% 37	14.3% 21	14.3% 132
Never eat it	36.1% 35	27.8% 113	30.9% 85	39.5% 58	31.4% 291
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	36.4% 32	29.7% 88	37.8% 90	38.4% 108	34.5% 323
Sometimes eat it	12.5% 4	19.3% 17	17.9% 53	19.7% 47	23.1% 65	19.9% 186
Seldom eat it	12.5% 4	5.7% 5	14.5% 43	13.0% 31	17.8% 50	14.2% 133
Never eat it	59.4% 19	38.6% 34	37.8% 112	29.4% 70	20.6% 58	31.3% 293
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	34.6% 133	34.3% 190	34.4% 323
Sometimes eat it	21.1% 81	19.3% 107	20.0% 188
Seldom eat it	15.6% 60	13.2% 73	14.2% 133
Never eat it	28.6% 110	33.2% 184	31.3% 294
TOTAL	100.0% 384	100.0% 554	938

Political party (I-PARTYID)

	Republican	Democrat	Independent	Other party	TOTAL
Usually eat it at the holidays	31.2% 91	39.3% 118	35.6% 83	26.4% 14	34.9% 306
Sometimes eat it	19.5% 57	18.7% 56	21.5% 50	17.0% 9	19.6% 172
Seldom eat it	16.4% 48	12.3% 37	13.7% 32	15.1% 8	14.2% 125
Never eat it	32.9% 96	29.7% 89	29.2% 68	41.5% 22	31.3% 275
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	32.1% 238	42.3% 52	50.0% 3	47.4% 27	34.5% 320
Sometimes eat it	20.6% 153	22.8% 28	16.7% 1	10.5% 6	20.3% 188
Seldom eat it	15.6% 116	6.5% 8	16.7% 1	12.3% 7	14.2% 132
Never eat it	31.7% 235	28.5% 35	16.7% 1	29.8% 17	31.0% 288
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	29.3% 99	36.6% 101	48.1% 52	16.7% 1	28.9% 41	41.7% 25	34.3% 319
Sometimes eat it	21.6% 73	21.4% 59	23.1% 25	0.0% 0	16.2% 23	13.3% 8	20.2% 188
Seldom eat it	13.0% 44	17.0% 47	9.3% 10	16.7% 1	15.5% 22	15.0% 9	14.3% 133
Never eat it	36.1% 122	25.0% 69	19.4% 21	66.7% 4	39.4% 56	30.0% 18	31.2% 290
TOTAL	100.0% 338	100.0% 276	100.0% 108	100.0% 6	100.0% 142	100.0% 60	930