General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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WORKHARD 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 work hard   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	415	26.9%	26.9%	-1.27
Second important	515	33.4%	60.3%	-0.23
Third important	483	31.3%	91.6%	0.81
Fourth important	114	7.4%	99.0%	1.86
Fifth important	15	1.0%	100.0%	2.90

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	35.8% 97	26.2% 112	26.1% 98	25.6% 89	15.7% 18	26.9% 414
Second important	34.3% 93	32.7% 140	32.2% 121	32.9% 114	38.3% 44	33.3% 512
Third important	27.3% 74	34.3% 147	30.9% 116	33.1% 115	26.1% 30	31.4% 482
Fourth important	2.6% 7	5.8% 25	9.0% 34	7.8% 27	18.3% 21	7.4% 114
Fifth important	0.0% 0	0.9% 4	1.9% 7	0.6% 2	1.7% 2	1.0% 15
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	26.3% 124	27.5% 28	28.9% 57	28.4% 46	23.1% 48	24.1% 13	28.4% 95	26.9% 411
Second important	33.9% 160	32.4% 33	31.0% 61	33.3% 54	33.7% 70	37.0% 20	33.4% 112	33.3% 510
Third important	31.8% 150	32.4% 33	31.5% 62	31.5% 51	33.2% 69	31.5% 17	29.6% 99	31.4% 481
Fourth important	7.4% 35	7.8% 8	6.6% 13	6.2% 10	9.1% 19	5.6% 3	7.5% 25	7.4% 113
Fifth important	0.6% 3	0.0% 0	2.0% 4	0.6% 1	1.0% 2	1.9% 1	1.2% 4	1.0% 15
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	16.6% 44	25.6% 45	26.3% 146	38.3% 67	30.4% 94	26.8% 396
Second important	32.1% 85	35.8% 63	34.4% 191	26.3% 46	34.6% 107	33.2% 492
Third important	43.8% 116	32.4% 57	31.4% 174	26.3% 46	24.3% 75	31.6% 468
Fourth important	6.4% 17	5.7% 10	7.0% 39	8.6% 15	9.1% 28	7.4% 109
Fifth important	1.1% 3	0.6% 1	0.9% 5	0.6% 1	1.6% 5	1.0% 15
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	26.5% 294	26.5% 68	30.5% 53	26.9% 415
Second important	33.1% 368	35.0% 90	32.8% 57	33.4% 515
Third important	33.2% 369	28.4% 73	23.6% 41	31.3% 483
Fourth important	6.8% 75	8.6% 22	9.8% 17	7.4% 114
Fifth important	0.5% 5	1.6% 4	3.4% 6	1.0% 15
TOTAL	100.0% 1111	100.0% 257	100.0% 174	1542

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
First important	26.2% 200	32.1% 101	20.0% 5	25.3% 90	25.4% 18	27.1% 414
Second important	33.3% 254	31.1% 98	36.0% 9	34.0% 121	35.2% 25	33.1% 507
Third important	31.5% 240	28.6% 90	32.0% 8	33.1% 118	33.8% 24	31.4% 480
Fourth important	8.1% 62	7.3% 23	8.0% 2	7.0% 25	2.8% 2	7.5% 114
Fifth important	0.9% 7	1.0% 3	4.0% 1	0.6% 2	2.8% 2	1.0% 15
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	30.6% 216	23.8% 199	26.9% 415
Second important	33.6% 237	33.2% 278	33.4% 515
Third important	27.0% 190	35.0% 293	31.3% 483
Fourth important	7.4% 52	7.4% 62	7.4% 114
Fifth important	1.4% 10	0.6% 5	1.0% 15
TOTAL	100.0% 705	100.0% 837	1542