General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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CONARMY 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? Military   1) A great deal   2) Only some   3) Hardly any

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
A great deal	935	60.6%	60.6%	-0.74
Only some	504	32.7%	93.3%	0.87
Hardly any	103	6.7%	100.0%	2.49

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	53.8% 143	59.0% 253	65.4% 249	62.8% 218	61.4% 70	60.7% 933
Only some	36.1% 96	32.6% 140	30.4% 116	32.6% 113	32.5% 37	32.7% 502
Hardly any	10.2% 27	8.4% 36	4.2% 16	4.6% 16	6.1% 7	6.6% 102
TOTAL	100.0% 266	100.0% 429	100.0% 381	100.0% 347	100.0% 114	1537

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	57.3% 272	57.8% 59	61.1% 121	58.3% 95	56.4% 119	71.7% 38	68.4% 225	60.7% 929
Only some	32.2% 153	37.3% 38	33.8% 67	38.0% 62	37.0% 78	26.4% 14	26.4% 87	32.6% 499
Hardly any	10.5% 50	4.9% 5	5.1% 10	3.7% 6	6.6% 14	1.9% 1	5.2% 17	6.7% 103
TOTAL	100.0% 475	100.0% 102	100.0% 198	100.0% 163	100.0% 211	100.0% 53	100.0% 329	1531

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	48.7% 129	54.3% 95	58.8% 326	62.6% 109	75.3% 235	60.4% 894
Only some	34.0% 90	40.0% 70	36.5% 202	32.2% 56	22.4% 70	33.0% 488
Hardly any	17.4% 46	5.7% 10	4.7% 26	5.2% 9	2.2% 7	6.6% 98
TOTAL	100.0% 265	100.0% 175	100.0% 554	100.0% 174	100.0% 312	1480

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
A great deal	63.1% 704	56.6% 145	50.3% 86	60.6% 935
Only some	31.7% 353	35.2% 90	35.7% 61	32.7% 504
Hardly any	5.2% 58	8.2% 21	14.0% 24	6.7% 103
TOTAL	100.0% 1115	100.0% 256	100.0% 171	1542

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
A great deal	65.1% 496	64.4% 199	53.8% 14	49.7% 179	57.5% 42	60.8% 930
Only some	31.0% 236	32.4% 100	34.6% 9	36.7% 132	27.4% 20	32.5% 497
Hardly any	3.9% 30	3.2% 10	11.5% 3	13.6% 49	15.1% 11	6.7% 103
TOTAL	100.0% 762	100.0% 309	100.0% 26	100.0% 360	100.0% 73	1530

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
A great deal	66.5% 470	55.7% 465	60.6% 935
Only some	28.0% 198	36.6% 306	32.7% 504
Hardly any	5.5% 39	7.7% 64	6.7% 103
TOTAL	100.0% 707	100.0% 835	1542