Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2010

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M4C In your opinion, how important is each of the following principles as a guide for making the laws of our country? Government and parliament should make laws according to the wishes of the people in some areas and implement shari`a law in others.   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	5418	32.2%	32.2%	-1.01
Important	6555	38.9%	71.1%	-.22
Somewhat important	719	4.3%	75.4%	.56
Not important	2966	17.6%	93%	1.35
Not important at all	1184	7%	100%	2.13

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	36.3% 1505	30.8% 1486	30.3% 1141	31.5% 719	32.8% 378	28.1% 176	32.2% 5405
Important	36.6% 1515	40.9% 1975	40.4% 1522	37.1% 847	37.2% 429	40.3% 252	38.9% 6540
Somewhat important	5.1% 211	3.8% 185	3.6% 137	4.4% 101	5.4% 62	3.5% 22	4.3% 718
Not important	16.0% 663	17.8% 861	18.0% 679	18.5% 423	17.8% 205	20.3% 127	17.6% 2958
Not important at all	6.0% 248	6.7% 324	7.7% 289	8.4% 192	6.8% 78	7.8% 49	7.0% 1180
TOTAL	100.0% 4142	100.0% 4831	100.0% 3768	100.0% 2282	100.0% 1152	100.0% 626	16801

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	39.5% 845	31.1% 1651	30.7% 1794	31.2% 957	34.9% 145	32.1% 5392
Important	37.1% 794	42.2% 2242	39.6% 2315	34.3% 1051	33.0% 137	39.0% 6539
Somewhat important	5.4% 115	4.5% 237	3.9% 227	4.1% 126	3.4% 14	4.3% 719
Not important	12.4% 265	16.6% 879	19.3% 1131	19.6% 602	17.1% 71	17.6% 2948
Not important at all	5.7% 121	5.6% 298	6.6% 385	10.8% 330	11.6% 48	7.0% 1182
TOTAL	100.0% 2140	100.0% 5307	100.0% 5852	100.0% 3066	100.0% 415	16780

Household income (I-INCOME)

	First quintile	Second quintile	Third quintile	Fourth quintile	Fifth quintile	TOTAL
Very important	39.8% 628	24.0% 583	32.1% 909	32.1% 851	34.0% 1577	32.2% 4548
Important	30.9% 487	43.4% 1055	40.2% 1137	40.7% 1079	36.6% 1695	38.6% 5453
Somewhat important	5.3% 84	2.8% 69	7.7% 218	3.5% 94	5.4% 251	5.1% 716
Not important	15.3% 242	21.8% 530	15.5% 439	17.2% 456	16.5% 767	17.2% 2434
Not important at all	8.7% 137	7.9% 192	4.5% 127	6.3% 168	7.4% 345	6.9% 969
TOTAL	100.0% 1578	100.0% 2429	100.0% 2830	100.0% 2648	100.0% 4635	14120

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Muslim	Christian	Jew	Other	TOTAL
Very important	33.2% 5308	13.5% 101	2.5% 2	33.3% 2	32.2% 5413
Important	39.8% 6357	20.5% 153	42.5% 34	66.7% 4	38.9% 6548
Somewhat important	4.4% 703	1.9% 14	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	4.3% 717
Not important	17.0% 2725	27.6% 206	37.5% 30	0.0% 0	17.6% 2961
Not important at all	5.6% 897	36.5% 273	17.5% 14	0.0% 0	7.0% 1184
TOTAL	100.0% 15990	100.0% 747	100.0% 80	100.0% 6	16823

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very important	29.8% 2562	34.8% 2854	32.2% 5416
Important	37.4% 3218	40.5% 3325	38.9% 6543
Somewhat important	4.6% 400	3.9% 319	4.3% 719
Not important	19.4% 1671	15.6% 1284	17.6% 2955
Not important at all	8.8% 753	5.2% 428	7.0% 1181
TOTAL	100.0% 8604	100.0% 8210	16814