General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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EMOPROBS In the past seven days, how often have you been bothered by emotional problems such as feeling anxious, depressed or irritable?   1) Never   2) Rarely   3) Sometimes   4) Often   5) [ARDA Note: Unknown code]

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Never	727	31.2%	31.2%	-1.13
Rarely	686	29.5%	60.7%	-0.23
Sometimes	601	25.8%	86.5%	0.68
Often	234	10.0%	96.5%	1.58
[ARDA Note: Unknown code]	81	3.5%	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
Never	22.7% 90	25.8% 166	31.1% 177	39.8% 202	42.9% 88	31.1% 723
Rarely	27.7% 110	30.6% 197	30.8% 175	27.6% 140	30.7% 63	29.5% 685
Sometimes	30.5% 121	26.9% 173	25.7% 146	22.3% 113	22.4% 46	25.8% 599
Often	13.9% 55	12.6% 81	9.7% 55	7.5% 38	2.4% 5	10.1% 234
[ARDA Note: Unknown code]	5.3% 21	4.2% 27	2.8% 16	2.8% 14	1.5% 3	3.5% 81
TOTAL	100.0% 397	100.0% 644	100.0% 569	100.0% 507	100.0% 205	2322

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
Never	28.2% 201	26.3% 36	29.7% 88	32.8% 78	30.6% 101	29.5% 26	37.2% 191	31.2% 721
Rarely	27.0% 192	29.2% 40	30.1% 89	27.3% 65	35.8% 118	29.5% 26	29.6% 152	29.5% 682
Sometimes	27.4% 195	25.5% 35	26.7% 79	30.7% 73	23.9% 79	28.4% 25	21.4% 110	25.8% 596
Often	11.5% 82	17.5% 24	11.8% 35	6.7% 16	7.6% 25	8.0% 7	8.8% 45	10.1% 234
[ARDA Note: Unknown code]	5.9% 42	1.5% 2	1.7% 5	2.5% 6	2.1% 7	4.5% 4	2.9% 15	3.5% 81
TOTAL	100.0% 712	100.0% 137	100.0% 296	100.0% 238	100.0% 330	100.0% 88	100.0% 513	2314

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Extremely liberal or liberal	Slightly liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Slightly conservative	Conservative or extremely conservative	TOTAL
Never	29.5% 117	27.5% 70	32.3% 274	24.1% 68	33.2% 149	30.4% 678
Rarely	28.5% 113	32.2% 82	29.0% 246	28.4% 80	33.9% 152	30.2% 673
Sometimes	25.8% 102	28.2% 72	24.8% 210	33.0% 93	22.7% 102	26.0% 579
Often	11.4% 45	10.2% 26	10.4% 88	11.3% 32	7.3% 33	10.0% 224
[ARDA Note: Unknown code]	4.8% 19	2.0% 5	3.5% 30	3.2% 9	2.9% 13	3.4% 76
TOTAL	100.0% 396	100.0% 255	100.0% 848	100.0% 282	100.0% 449	2230

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
Never	30.9% 518	30.4% 116	34.7% 93	31.2% 727
Rarely	30.8% 517	24.9% 95	27.6% 74	29.5% 686
Sometimes	25.2% 423	28.8% 110	25.4% 68	25.8% 601
Often	9.5% 159	13.9% 53	8.2% 22	10.0% 234
[ARDA Note: Unknown code]	3.7% 62	2.1% 8	4.1% 11	3.5% 81
TOTAL	100.0% 1679	100.0% 382	100.0% 268	2329

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
Never	30.0% 339	36.9% 180	33.3% 13	28.2% 151	29.8% 34	31.1% 717
Rarely	30.2% 341	29.3% 143	33.3% 13	30.2% 162	19.3% 22	29.5% 681
Sometimes	26.5% 300	23.8% 116	25.6% 10	25.0% 134	31.6% 36	25.8% 596
Often	10.0% 113	8.0% 39	5.1% 2	11.9% 64	14.0% 16	10.1% 234
[ARDA Note: Unknown code]	3.4% 38	2.0% 10	2.6% 1	4.7% 25	5.3% 6	3.5% 80
TOTAL	100.0% 1131	100.0% 488	100.0% 39	100.0% 536	100.0% 114	2308

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Never	36.6% 381	26.9% 346	31.2% 727
Rarely	29.5% 307	29.4% 379	29.5% 686
Sometimes	21.9% 228	29.0% 373	25.8% 601
Often	8.2% 85	11.6% 149	10.0% 234
[ARDA Note: Unknown code]	3.8% 40	3.2% 41	3.5% 81
TOTAL	100.0% 1041	100.0% 1288	2329