Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2010

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M50 Abandonment of religion   1) Very important   2) Important   3) Somewhat important   4) Not very important   5) Not important at all

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very important	1672	70.7%	70.7%	-.54
Important	490	20.7%	91.4%	.71
Somewhat important	102	4.3%	95.7%	1.96
Not very important	82	3.5%	99.2%	3.21
Not important at all	20	.8%	100%	4.46

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Household income Religion Sex

Age (I-AGE)

Table contains all missing data

Education (I-EDUC)

	Illiterate	Elementary and primary (includes elementary school so goes from first grade to eighth grade)	Secondary	BA (completion of college degree)	MA or higher	TOTAL
Very important	78.5% 124	71.3% 438	70.5% 730	68.7% 356	64.7% 22	70.8% 1670
Important	20.3% 32	21.2% 130	20.8% 216	20.1% 104	11.8% 4	20.6% 486
Somewhat important	1.3% 2	2.0% 12	4.6% 48	6.6% 34	17.6% 6	4.3% 102
Not very important	0.0% 0	4.2% 26	3.9% 40	3.1% 16	0.0% 0	3.5% 82
Not important at all	0.0% 0	1.3% 8	0.2% 2	1.5% 8	5.9% 2	0.8% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 158	100.0% 614	100.0% 1036	100.0% 518	100.0% 34	2360

Household income (I-INCOME)

	First quintile	Second quintile	Third quintile	Fourth quintile	Fifth quintile	TOTAL
Very important	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	73.5% 1000	0.00% 0	66.7% 658	70.7% 1658
Important	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	19.3% 262	0.00% 0	22.5% 222	20.6% 484
Somewhat important	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	3.8% 52	0.00% 0	5.1% 50	4.3% 102
Not very important	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	2.9% 40	0.00% 0	4.3% 42	3.5% 82
Not important at all	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	0.4% 6	0.00% 0	1.4% 14	0.9% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 0	100.0% 0	100.0% 1360	100.0% 0	100.0% 986	2346

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Muslim	Christian	Jew	Other	TOTAL
Very important	71.8% 1628	45.8% 44	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	70.7% 1672
Important	20.7% 470	18.8% 18	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	20.6% 488
Somewhat important	4.1% 92	10.4% 10	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	4.3% 102
Not very important	3.0% 68	14.6% 14	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	3.5% 82
Not important at all	0.4% 10	10.4% 10	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	0.8% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 2268	100.0% 96	100.0% 0	100.0% 0	2364

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very important	68.0% 798	73.3% 874	70.7% 1672
Important	20.4% 240	21.0% 250	20.7% 490
Somewhat important	5.6% 66	3.0% 36	4.3% 102
Not very important	4.9% 58	2.0% 24	3.5% 82
Not important at all	1.0% 12	0.7% 8	0.8% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 1174	100.0% 1192	2366