General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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POPULAR If you had to choose, which thing on this list would you pick as the most important for a child to learn to prepare him or her for life? To be well-liked or popular   1) First important   2) Second important   3) Third important   4) Fourth important   5) Fifth important

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
First important	5	.3%	.3%	-6.09
Second important	17	1.1%	1.4%	-4.44
Third important	42	2.7%	4.2%	-2.80
Fourth important	306	19.8%	24.0%	-1.15
Fifth important	1172	76.0%	100.0%	0.49

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
First important	0.4% 1	0.2% 1	0.3% 1	0.3% 1	0.9% 1	0.3% 5
Second important	1.1% 3	0.2% 1	1.1% 4	1.2% 4	4.3% 5	1.1% 17
Third important	1.8% 5	2.3% 10	5.1% 19	1.7% 6	1.7% 2	2.7% 42
Fourth important	21.8% 59	20.1% 86	22.1% 83	17.3% 60	14.8% 17	19.8% 305
Fifth important	74.9% 203	77.1% 330	71.5% 269	79.5% 276	78.3% 90	76.0% 1168
TOTAL	100.0% 271	100.0% 428	100.0% 376	100.0% 347	100.0% 115	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
First important	0.6% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.0% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 5
Second important	0.8% 4	0.0% 0	1.5% 3	1.2% 2	1.4% 3	0.0% 0	1.5% 5	1.1% 17
Third important	3.8% 18	1.0% 1	4.1% 8	3.1% 5	1.4% 3	1.9% 1	1.8% 6	2.7% 42
Fourth important	26.7% 126	21.6% 22	19.3% 38	17.9% 29	18.8% 39	16.7% 9	11.9% 40	19.8% 303
Fifth important	68.0% 321	77.5% 79	75.1% 148	77.8% 126	77.4% 161	81.5% 44	84.8% 284	76.0% 1163
TOTAL	100.0% 472	100.0% 102	100.0% 197	100.0% 162	100.0% 208	100.0% 54	100.0% 335	1530

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Extremely liberal or liberal	Slightly liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Slightly conservative	Conservative or extremely conservative	TOTAL
First important	0.0% 0	0.6% 1	0.7% 4	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 5
Second important	1.9% 5	1.1% 2	1.4% 8	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	1.1% 16
Third important	4.5% 12	2.8% 5	2.0% 11	3.4% 6	1.3% 4	2.6% 38
Fourth important	30.2% 80	26.7% 47	16.9% 94	14.9% 26	16.2% 50	20.1% 297
Fifth important	63.4% 168	68.8% 121	78.9% 438	81.7% 143	82.2% 254	75.9% 1124
TOTAL	100.0% 265	100.0% 176	100.0% 555	100.0% 175	100.0% 309	1480

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
First important	0.1% 1	0.8% 2	1.1% 2	0.3% 5
Second important	0.9% 10	0.8% 2	2.9% 5	1.1% 17
Third important	2.0% 22	1.9% 5	8.6% 15	2.7% 42
Fourth important	21.3% 237	14.4% 37	18.4% 32	19.8% 306
Fifth important	75.7% 841	82.1% 211	69.0% 120	76.0% 1172
TOTAL	100.0% 1111	100.0% 257	100.0% 174	1542

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
First important	0.4% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 1	1.4% 1	0.3% 5
Second important	1.0% 8	1.6% 5	0.0% 0	0.8% 3	1.4% 1	1.1% 17
Third important	1.7% 13	2.5% 8	8.0% 2	3.9% 14	7.0% 5	2.7% 42
Fourth important	15.1% 115	18.4% 58	36.0% 9	28.7% 102	28.2% 20	19.9% 304
Fifth important	81.8% 624	77.5% 244	56.0% 14	66.3% 236	62.0% 44	75.9% 1162
TOTAL	100.0% 763	100.0% 315	100.0% 25	100.0% 356	100.0% 71	1530

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
First important	0.4% 3	0.2% 2	0.3% 5
Second important	1.4% 10	0.8% 7	1.1% 17
Third important	4.5% 32	1.2% 10	2.7% 42
Fourth important	24.0% 169	16.4% 137	19.8% 306
Fifth important	69.6% 491	81.4% 681	76.0% 1172
TOTAL	100.0% 705	100.0% 837	1542