General Social Survey, 1993

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IMPFINAN I'm going to read you a list of some things that different people value. Some people say these things are very important to them. Other people say they are not so important. Please tell me how important each thing is to you personally, using the responses on each card (hand card to respondent). How about being financially secure? Is it one of the most important values you hold, very important, somewhat important, not too important, or not at all important? Being financially secure   1) One of the most important   2) Very important   3) Somewhat important   4) Not too important   5) Not at all important   8) Don't know   9) No answer

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
One of the most important	427	26.6%	26.6%	-1.02
Very important	817	50.9%	77.5%	-.06
Somewhat important	290	18.1%	95.5%	.91
Not too important	49	3.1%	98.6%	1.87
Not at all important	6	.4%	98.9%	2.83
Don't know	5	.3%	99.3%	5.72
No answer	12	.7%	100%	6.69

Variable Comparisons

Age Worship attendance Education Gender Religion Political ideology Race

Age (I-AGE)

	18-29	30-44	45-59	60-74	75 and older	TOTAL
One of the most important	31.9% 96	30.5% 171	23.8% 85	20.4% 52	18.1% 23	26.7% 427
Very important	48.2% 145	50.3% 282	49.3% 176	54.5% 139	56.7% 72	50.8% 814
Somewhat important	14.6% 44	17.5% 98	22.1% 79	16.9% 43	19.7% 25	18.1% 289
Not too important	4.3% 13	1.1% 6	2.8% 10	5.5% 14	3.9% 5	3.0% 48
Not at all important	0.7% 2	0.2% 1	0.3% 1	0.8% 2	0.0% 0	0.4% 6
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.6% 2	0.4% 1	0.8% 1	0.3% 5
No answer	0.3% 1	0.4% 2	1.1% 4	1.6% 4	0.8% 1	0.7% 12
TOTAL	100.0% 301	100.0% 561	100.0% 357	100.0% 255	100.0% 127	1601

Worship attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Less than once a year	About once or twice a year	Several times a year	About once a month	Two to three times a month	Nearly every week	Once a week or more	TOTAL
One of the most important	27.3% 108	25.9% 50	29.0% 51	30.4% 34	27.7% 38	28.3% 28	23.5% 107	26.5% 416
Very important	47.1% 186	58.0% 112	54.0% 95	53.6% 60	51.8% 71	49.5% 49	50.2% 229	51.1% 802
Somewhat important	20.8% 82	13.0% 25	12.5% 22	13.4% 15	18.2% 25	18.2% 18	21.3% 97	18.1% 284
Not too important	3.8% 15	1.6% 3	4.0% 7	1.8% 2	2.2% 3	3.0% 3	3.1% 14	3.0% 47
Not at all important	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.9% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.1% 5	0.4% 6
Don't know	0.8% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.3% 4
No answer	0.3% 1	1.6% 3	0.6% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.0% 1	0.7% 3	0.6% 9
TOTAL	100.0% 395	100.0% 193	100.0% 176	100.0% 112	100.0% 137	100.0% 99	100.0% 456	1568

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school	Junior college	Bachelor's degree	Graduate degree	TOTAL
One of the most important	27.9% 82	27.0% 227	25.8% 25	23.3% 59	28.0% 33	26.6% 426
Very important	51.0% 150	49.4% 415	51.5% 50	57.3% 145	48.3% 57	51.0% 817
Somewhat important	13.9% 41	19.6% 165	20.6% 20	16.2% 41	19.5% 23	18.1% 290
Not too important	4.4% 13	3.0% 25	1.0% 1	2.0% 5	4.2% 5	3.1% 49
Not at all important	0.3% 1	0.4% 3	1.0% 1	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.4% 6
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.4% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 3
No answer	2.4% 7	0.2% 2	0.0% 0	0.8% 2	0.0% 0	0.7% 11
TOTAL	100.0% 294	100.0% 840	100.0% 97	100.0% 253	100.0% 118	1602

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
One of the most important	26.0% 178	27.0% 249	26.6% 427
Very important	52.6% 360	49.6% 457	50.9% 817
Somewhat important	17.8% 122	18.2% 168	18.1% 290
Not too important	3.1% 21	3.0% 28	3.1% 49
Not at all important	0.3% 2	0.4% 4	0.4% 6
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.5% 5	0.3% 5
No answer	0.3% 2	1.1% 10	0.7% 12
TOTAL	100.0% 685	100.0% 921	1606

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other	TOTAL
One of the most important	25.5% 261	29.6% 104	42.4% 14	20.5% 30	33.3% 14	26.5% 423
Very important	50.2% 515	51.6% 181	48.5% 16	54.8% 80	54.8% 23	51.0% 815
Somewhat important	19.5% 200	15.4% 54	6.1% 2	19.9% 29	9.5% 4	18.1% 289
Not too important	3.3% 34	2.0% 7	3.0% 1	4.8% 7	0.0% 0	3.1% 49
Not at all important	0.4% 4	0.6% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.4% 6
Don't know	0.4% 4	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 4
No answer	0.7% 7	0.9% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.4% 1	0.7% 11
TOTAL	100.0% 1025	100.0% 351	100.0% 33	100.0% 146	100.0% 42	1597

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Liberal and extremely liberal	Slightly liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Slightly conservative	Conservative	Extremely conservative	TOTAL
One of the most important	25.2% 53	25.1% 51	29.2% 168	23.5% 62	25.6% 65	33.3% 14	26.7% 413
Very important	52.4% 110	52.2% 106	49.2% 283	54.9% 145	53.9% 137	35.7% 15	51.4% 796
Somewhat important	17.6% 37	17.7% 36	17.9% 103	18.9% 50	17.3% 44	28.6% 12	18.2% 282
Not too important	3.3% 7	3.9% 8	2.8% 16	1.9% 5	2.8% 7	0.0% 0	2.8% 43
Not at all important	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.7% 4	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	2.4% 1	0.4% 6
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.5% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1
No answer	1.4% 3	0.5% 1	0.2% 1	0.4% 1	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.5% 7
TOTAL	100.0% 210	100.0% 203	100.0% 575	100.0% 264	100.0% 254	100.0% 42	1548

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
One of the most important	24.5% 330	40.8% 73	30.0% 24	26.6% 427
Very important	52.3% 705	40.8% 73	48.8% 39	50.9% 817
Somewhat important	19.0% 256	12.3% 22	15.0% 12	18.1% 290
Not too important	3.1% 42	2.8% 5	2.5% 2	3.1% 49
Not at all important	0.2% 3	0.6% 1	2.5% 2	0.4% 6
Don't know	0.4% 5	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 5
No answer	0.4% 6	2.8% 5	1.3% 1	0.7% 12
TOTAL	100.0% 1347	100.0% 179	100.0% 80	1606