General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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CONSCI I am going to name some institutions in this country. As far as the people running these institutions are concerned, would you say you have a great deal of confidence, only some confidence or hardly any confidence at all in them? Scientific community   1) A great deal   2) Only some   3) Hardly any

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
A great deal	681	45.2%	45.2%	-1.01
Only some	725	48.1%	93.4%	0.63
Hardly any	100	6.6%	100.0%	2.28

Variable Comparisons

Age Worship attendance Political ideology Race Religion Sex

Age (I-AGE)

	18-29	30-44	45-59	60-74	75 or older	TOTAL
A great deal	48.9% 130	48.5% 205	42.2% 158	42.6% 143	42.7% 44	45.3% 680
Only some	43.6% 116	44.4% 188	50.8% 190	51.5% 173	53.4% 55	48.1% 722
Hardly any	7.5% 20	7.1% 30	7.0% 26	6.0% 20	3.9% 4	6.7% 100
TOTAL	100.0% 266	100.0% 423	100.0% 374	100.0% 336	100.0% 103	1502

Worship attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Less than once a year	About once a year	Several times a year	One to three times a month	Nearly every week	Every week or several times a week	TOTAL
A great deal	49.2% 227	46.0% 46	40.5% 79	45.3% 73	45.1% 93	45.1% 23	42.4% 136	45.3% 677
Only some	46.4% 214	47.0% 47	51.8% 101	47.8% 77	47.6% 98	41.2% 21	50.2% 161	48.1% 719
Hardly any	4.3% 20	7.0% 7	7.7% 15	6.8% 11	7.3% 15	13.7% 7	7.5% 24	6.6% 99
TOTAL	100.0% 461	100.0% 100	100.0% 195	100.0% 161	100.0% 206	100.0% 51	100.0% 321	1495

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Extremely liberal or liberal	Slightly liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Slightly conservative	Conservative or extremely conservative	TOTAL
A great deal	62.0% 163	51.4% 89	41.6% 225	39.9% 69	39.1% 118	45.7% 664
Only some	32.7% 86	45.7% 79	53.2% 288	50.3% 87	52.3% 158	48.1% 698
Hardly any	5.3% 14	2.9% 5	5.2% 28	9.8% 17	8.6% 26	6.2% 90
TOTAL	100.0% 263	100.0% 173	100.0% 541	100.0% 173	100.0% 302	1452

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
A great deal	48.9% 532	32.4% 81	40.7% 68	45.2% 681
Only some	46.5% 506	54.8% 137	49.1% 82	48.1% 725
Hardly any	4.7% 51	12.8% 32	10.2% 17	6.6% 100
TOTAL	100.0% 1089	100.0% 250	100.0% 167	1506

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
A great deal	38.8% 287	48.0% 146	57.7% 15	54.4% 193	50.7% 36	45.3% 677
Only some	52.4% 387	47.7% 145	34.6% 9	40.6% 144	47.9% 34	48.1% 719
Hardly any	8.8% 65	4.3% 13	7.7% 2	5.1% 18	1.4% 1	6.6% 99
TOTAL	100.0% 739	100.0% 304	100.0% 26	100.0% 355	100.0% 71	1495

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
A great deal	50.4% 351	40.7% 330	45.2% 681
Only some	43.1% 300	52.5% 425	48.1% 725
Hardly any	6.5% 45	6.8% 55	6.6% 100
TOTAL	100.0% 696	100.0% 810	1506