General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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OBEY

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 obey
  1) First important
  2) Second important
  3) Third important
  4) Fourth important
  5) Fifth important

Category Frequency Percentage Cumulative Percentage Z-Score
First important 167 10.8% 10.8% -2.05
Second important 169 11.0% 21.8% -1.22
Third important 240 15.6% 37.4% -0.39
Fourth important 706 45.8% 83.1% 0.44
Fifth important 260 16.9% 100.0% 1.27

Variable Comparisons


Age (I-AGE)

18-29 30-44 45-59 60-74 75 or older TOTAL
First important 8.1%
22
9.1%
39
12.0%
45
9.8%
34
22.6%
26
10.8%
166
Second important 9.2%
25
12.4%
53
12.8%
48
8.9%
31
9.6%
11
10.9%
168
Third important 14.0%
38
15.4%
66
13.8%
52
16.4%
57
22.6%
26
15.5%
239
Fourth important 49.1%
133
44.6%
191
42.8%
161
51.3%
178
36.5%
42
45.9%
705
Fifth important 19.6%
53
18.5%
79
18.6%
70
13.5%
47
8.7%
10
16.9%
259
TOTAL 100.0%
271
100.0%
428
100.0%
376
100.0%
347
100.0%
115

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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 6.4%
30
7.8%
8
12.2%
24
9.9%
16
12.0%
25
20.4%
11
15.5%
52
10.8%
166
Second important 8.1%
38
12.7%
13
10.2%
20
8.6%
14
15.9%
33
11.1%
6
13.4%
45
11.0%
169
Third important 14.4%
68
13.7%
14
13.7%
27
15.4%
25
17.3%
36
14.8%
8
18.2%
61
15.6%
239
Fourth important 46.0%
217
47.1%
48
45.7%
90
50.0%
81
40.4%
84
46.3%
25
46.0%
154
45.7%
699
Fifth important 25.2%
119
18.6%
19
18.3%
36
16.0%
26
14.4%
30
7.4%
4
6.9%
23
16.8%
257
TOTAL 100.0%
472
100.0%
102
100.0%
197
100.0%
162
100.0%
208
100.0%
54
100.0%
335

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Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

Extremely liberal or liberal Slightly liberal Moderate, middle of the road Slightly conservative Conservative or extremely conservative TOTAL
First important 7.2%
19
8.5%
15
10.8%
60
8.6%
15
14.2%
44
10.3%
153
Second important 5.3%
14
8.5%
15
11.9%
66
13.1%
23
13.9%
43
10.9%
161
Third important 10.2%
27
11.9%
21
16.2%
90
17.1%
30
19.4%
60
15.4%
228
Fourth important 47.2%
125
45.5%
80
47.6%
264
46.3%
81
43.4%
134
46.2%
684
Fifth important 30.2%
80
25.6%
45
13.5%
75
14.9%
26
9.1%
28
17.2%
254
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 9.2%
102
18.7%
48
9.8%
17
10.8%
167
Second important 7.7%
85
20.2%
52
18.4%
32
11.0%
169
Third important 15.2%
169
13.6%
35
20.7%
36
15.6%
240
Fourth important 49.3%
548
38.5%
99
33.9%
59
45.8%
706
Fifth important 18.6%
207
8.9%
23
17.2%
30
16.9%
260
TOTAL 100.0%
1111
100.0%
257
100.0%
174

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Religion (I-RELIGION)

Protestant Catholic Jewish None Other (specify) TOTAL
First important 14.0%
107
11.4%
36
0.0%
0
4.8%
17
7.0%
5
10.8%
165
Second important 14.4%
110
9.2%
29
8.0%
2
7.0%
25
4.2%
3
11.0%
169
Third important 16.5%
126
19.4%
61
12.0%
3
11.5%
41
11.3%
8
15.6%
239
Fourth important 44.4%
339
46.3%
146
48.0%
12
46.9%
167
49.3%
35
45.7%
699
Fifth important 10.6%
81
13.7%
43
32.0%
8
29.8%
106
28.2%
20
16.9%
258
TOTAL 100.0%
763
100.0%
315
100.0%
25
100.0%
356
100.0%
71

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Sex (I-SEX)

Male Female TOTAL
First important 12.6%
89
9.3%
78
10.8%
167
Second important 12.2%
86
9.9%
83
11.0%
169
Third important 15.2%
107
15.9%
133
15.6%
240
Fourth important 39.6%
279
51.0%
427
45.8%
706
Fifth important 20.4%
144
13.9%
116
16.9%
260
TOTAL 100.0%
705
100.0%
837

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