Taiwan Social Change Survey, 1999

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WHYFORT8 Why did you have your fortune told? Choose all that apply. Predicting my luck in a given year.   0) No   1) Yes   7) Don't know

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
No	1828	95%	95%	-.2
Yes	96	5%	99.9%	3.52
Don't know	1	.1%	100%	25.82

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Household income Marital status Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	22-30	31-40	41-45	46-50	51-60	61-68	TOTAL
No	93.3% 180	95.9% 279	95.1% 273	95.2% 278	94.4% 493	95.6% 325	95.0% 1828
Yes	6.7% 13	4.1% 12	4.5% 13	4.8% 14	5.6% 29	4.4% 15	5.0% 96
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 193	100.0% 291	100.0% 287	100.0% 292	100.0% 522	100.0% 340	1925

Education (I-EDUC)

	None, self-study or Elementary	Junior high school (including vocational)	High school (HS)	Vocational HS (or cadet)	Junior college (of any kind)	College or Grad school	TOTAL
No	95.0% 415	96.5% 272	94.6% 229	95.1% 346	94.4% 284	94.1% 270	94.9% 1816
Yes	5.0% 22	3.5% 10	5.0% 12	4.9% 18	5.6% 17	5.9% 17	5.0% 96
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 437	100.0% 282	100.0% 242	100.0% 364	100.0% 301	100.0% 287	1913

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
No	96.5% 928	93.5% 900	95.0% 1828
Yes	3.4% 33	6.5% 63	5.0% 96
Don't know	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 962	100.0% 963	1925

Household income (I-INCOME)

	NT$20,001 or less	NT$30,001-40,000	NT$40,001-60,000	NT$60,001-80,000	NT$80,001-120,000	More than NT$120,000	TOTAL
No	96.6% 310	96.1% 246	94.2% 390	93.2% 233	95.7% 312	92.5% 184	94.8% 1675
Yes	3.4% 11	3.9% 10	5.8% 24	6.8% 17	4.0% 13	7.5% 15	5.1% 90
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 321	100.0% 256	100.0% 414	100.0% 250	100.0% 326	100.0% 199	1766

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Unmarried	Married	Other (please specify)	TOTAL
No	94.0% 441	95.2% 1381	0.00% 0	94.9% 1822
Yes	6.0% 28	4.7% 68	0.00% 0	5.0% 96
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.00% 0	0.1% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 469	100.0% 1450	100.0% 0	1919

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	"I have no religious belief"	Folk religion of any kind	Buddhism (any sect)	Taoism	Christian (includes Cath and Prot)	All other religions (including mixes of religions)	TOTAL
No	95.8% 251	95.2% 612	94.1% 476	94.7% 232	97.8% 136	93.0% 120	95.0% 1827
Yes	4.2% 11	4.8% 31	5.7% 29	5.3% 13	2.2% 3	7.0% 9	5.0% 96
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
TOTAL	100.0% 262	100.0% 643	100.0% 506	100.0% 245	100.0% 139	100.0% 129	1924