General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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RXMED Should [NAME] take prescription medication?   1) Yes   2) No

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Yes	696	63.0%	63.0%	-0.77
No	408	37.0%	100.0%	1.30

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
Yes	54.9% 106	62.7% 192	66.3% 177	64.7% 161	69.0% 60	63.2% 696
No	45.1% 87	37.3% 114	33.7% 90	35.3% 88	31.0% 27	36.8% 406
TOTAL	100.0% 193	100.0% 306	100.0% 267	100.0% 249	100.0% 87	1102

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
Yes	63.5% 217	72.6% 53	61.9% 91	58.5% 69	64.2% 95	66.7% 26	61.7% 142	63.2% 693
No	36.5% 125	27.4% 20	38.1% 56	41.5% 49	35.8% 53	33.3% 13	38.3% 88	36.8% 404
TOTAL	100.0% 342	100.0% 73	100.0% 147	100.0% 118	100.0% 148	100.0% 39	100.0% 230	1097

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Extremely liberal or liberal	Slightly liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Slightly conservative	Conservative or extremely conservative	TOTAL
Yes	67.2% 131	60.2% 74	63.0% 259	63.6% 77	59.3% 124	62.8% 665
No	32.8% 64	39.8% 49	37.0% 152	36.4% 44	40.7% 85	37.2% 394
TOTAL	100.0% 195	100.0% 123	100.0% 411	100.0% 121	100.0% 209	1059

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
Yes	65.4% 522	57.6% 106	55.7% 68	63.0% 696
No	34.6% 276	42.4% 78	44.3% 54	37.0% 408
TOTAL	100.0% 798	100.0% 184	100.0% 122	1104

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
Yes	63.2% 352	62.9% 132	76.5% 13	63.3% 167	59.6% 28	63.2% 692
No	36.8% 205	37.1% 78	23.5% 4	36.7% 97	40.4% 19	36.8% 403
TOTAL	100.0% 557	100.0% 210	100.0% 17	100.0% 264	100.0% 47	1095

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Yes	60.9% 328	65.1% 368	63.0% 696
No	39.1% 211	34.9% 197	37.0% 408
TOTAL	100.0% 539	100.0% 565	1104