Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2010

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M4B In your opinion, how important is each of the following principles as a guide for making the laws of our country? Government should implement only the laws of the shari`a.   1) Very important   2) Important   3) Somewhat important   4) Not important   5) Not important at all

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very important	9633	32.3%	32.3%	-1.05
Important	9434	31.6%	63.9%	-.29
Somewhat important	2741	9.2%	73.1%	.47
Not important	5739	19.2%	92.4%	1.23
Not important at all	2275	7.6%	100%	1.99

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Household income Religion Sex

Age (I-AGE)

	18-24 years old	25-34 years old	35-44 years old	45-54 years old	55-64 years old	65+ years old	TOTAL
Very important	32.0% 2188	32.9% 2764	31.8% 2123	32.1% 1279	36.0% 717	40.5% 465	32.8% 9536
Important	30.5% 2089	31.2% 2618	30.6% 2039	30.6% 1220	29.9% 596	28.8% 330	30.6% 8892
Somewhat important	10.1% 690	8.6% 723	9.9% 660	8.9% 356	10.1% 201	7.8% 90	9.4% 2720
Not important	20.0% 1370	19.8% 1665	19.7% 1313	19.7% 784	16.9% 336	14.6% 167	19.4% 5635
Not important at all	7.4% 510	7.5% 627	8.1% 538	8.8% 349	7.2% 144	8.3% 95	7.8% 2263
TOTAL	100.0% 6847	100.0% 8397	100.0% 6673	100.0% 3988	100.0% 1994	100.0% 1147	29046

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	42.3% 1929	29.3% 2425	24.8% 2021	35.6% 2442	42.2% 775	32.3% 9592
Important	32.7% 1491	31.9% 2644	33.9% 2766	29.2% 2007	26.8% 493	31.7% 9401
Somewhat important	9.5% 432	9.4% 779	7.8% 636	10.1% 694	10.6% 195	9.2% 2736
Not important	11.6% 527	21.3% 1767	24.6% 2007	16.9% 1157	13.4% 246	19.2% 5704
Not important at all	3.9% 177	8.0% 662	9.0% 735	8.2% 562	7.0% 129	7.6% 2265
TOTAL	100.0% 4556	100.0% 8277	100.0% 8165	100.0% 6862	100.0% 1838	29698

Household income (I-INCOME)

	First quintile	Second quintile	Third quintile	Fourth quintile	Fifth quintile	TOTAL
Very important	36.0% 1213	30.2% 1363	29.5% 1410	33.7% 1988	30.4% 2314	31.7% 8288
Important	30.1% 1017	32.4% 1463	33.7% 1613	30.5% 1802	27.7% 2107	30.6% 8002
Somewhat important	9.0% 302	8.7% 391	12.8% 614	10.0% 591	9.8% 742	10.1% 2640
Not important	15.2% 512	21.0% 946	19.1% 916	18.8% 1111	22.9% 1738	20.0% 5223
Not important at all	9.8% 330	7.7% 348	4.9% 234	6.9% 409	9.2% 703	7.7% 2024
TOTAL	100.0% 3374	100.0% 4511	100.0% 4787	100.0% 5901	100.0% 7604	26177

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Muslim	Christian	Jew	Other	TOTAL
Very important	33.2% 9518	8.8% 88	0.0% 0	47.1% 8	32.3% 9614
Important	32.5% 9298	10.6% 106	2.5% 2	23.5% 4	31.7% 9410
Somewhat important	9.3% 2666	5.8% 58	0.0% 0	17.6% 3	9.2% 2727
Not important	19.0% 5441	24.7% 248	43.0% 34	5.9% 1	19.3% 5724
Not important at all	6.0% 1706	50.1% 503	54.4% 43	5.9% 1	7.6% 2253
TOTAL	100.0% 28629	100.0% 1003	100.0% 79	100.0% 17	29728

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very important	33.7% 5110	30.9% 4519	32.3% 9629
Important	30.5% 4621	32.8% 4802	31.6% 9423
Somewhat important	8.8% 1335	9.6% 1406	9.2% 2741
Not important	18.8% 2852	19.6% 2875	19.2% 5727
Not important at all	8.2% 1243	7.0% 1030	7.6% 2273
TOTAL	100.0% 15161	100.0% 14632	29793