General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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ABINSPAY People use their health insurance to help cover the cost of receiving health care. Do you think people should be able to use their health insurance to help cover the cost of receiving an abortion?   1) People should be able   2) People should not be able

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
People should be able	1077	50.2%	50.2%	-1.00
People should not be able	1068	49.8%	100.0%	1.00

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
People should be able	54.9% 207	49.2% 294	49.2% 257	51.8% 235	43.6% 82	50.3% 1075
People should not be able	45.1% 170	50.8% 304	50.8% 265	48.2% 219	56.4% 106	49.7% 1064
TOTAL	100.0% 377	100.0% 598	100.0% 522	100.0% 454	100.0% 188	2139

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
People should be able	62.9% 412	67.4% 87	50.9% 140	49.3% 109	46.7% 141	40.7% 33	31.3% 148	50.1% 1070
People should not be able	37.1% 243	32.6% 42	49.1% 135	50.7% 112	53.3% 161	59.3% 48	68.7% 325	49.9% 1066
TOTAL	100.0% 655	100.0% 129	100.0% 275	100.0% 221	100.0% 302	100.0% 81	100.0% 473	2136

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Extremely liberal or liberal	Slightly liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Slightly conservative	Conservative or extremely conservative	TOTAL
People should be able	76.2% 285	61.8% 144	50.9% 395	39.6% 101	28.6% 120	50.8% 1045
People should not be able	23.8% 89	38.2% 89	49.1% 381	60.4% 154	71.4% 300	49.2% 1013
TOTAL	100.0% 374	100.0% 233	100.0% 776	100.0% 255	100.0% 420	2058

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
People should be able	49.3% 761	55.5% 196	48.4% 120	50.2% 1077
People should not be able	50.7% 783	44.5% 157	51.6% 128	49.8% 1068
TOTAL	100.0% 1544	100.0% 353	100.0% 248	2145

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
People should be able	41.6% 435	47.4% 212	75.8% 25	66.7% 335	58.7% 61	50.1% 1068
People should not be able	58.4% 610	52.6% 235	24.2% 8	33.3% 167	41.3% 43	49.9% 1063
TOTAL	100.0% 1045	100.0% 447	100.0% 33	100.0% 502	100.0% 104	2131

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
People should be able	53.3% 519	47.7% 558	50.2% 1077
People should not be able	46.7% 455	52.3% 613	49.8% 1068
TOTAL	100.0% 974	100.0% 1171	2145