General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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THNKSELF 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 think for himself or herself   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	643	41.7%	41.7%	-0.96
Second important	308	20.0%	61.7%	-0.18
Third important	269	17.4%	79.1%	0.61
Fourth important	243	15.8%	94.9%	1.39
Fifth important	79	5.1%	100.0%	2.17

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	35.1% 95	44.4% 190	42.6% 160	42.9% 149	40.0% 46	41.6% 640
Second important	25.8% 70	19.9% 85	16.2% 61	22.5% 78	12.2% 14	20.0% 308
Third important	19.6% 53	16.1% 69	19.1% 72	15.0% 52	20.0% 23	17.5% 269
Fourth important	15.1% 41	16.6% 71	15.7% 59	13.8% 48	19.1% 22	15.7% 241
Fifth important	4.4% 12	3.0% 13	6.4% 24	5.8% 20	8.7% 10	5.1% 79
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	48.3% 228	45.1% 46	40.1% 79	41.4% 67	41.8% 87	35.2% 19	33.1% 111	41.6% 637
Second important	21.6% 102	23.5% 24	20.3% 40	23.5% 38	16.8% 35	13.0% 7	17.6% 59	19.9% 305
Third important	15.0% 71	15.7% 16	20.3% 40	17.9% 29	17.8% 37	13.0% 7	19.7% 66	17.4% 266
Fourth important	9.3% 44	12.7% 13	16.8% 33	13.0% 21	18.8% 39	29.6% 16	23.0% 77	15.9% 243
Fifth important	5.7% 27	2.9% 3	2.5% 5	4.3% 7	4.8% 10	9.3% 5	6.6% 22	5.2% 79
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	55.8% 148	51.1% 90	40.5% 225	34.3% 60	33.7% 104	42.4% 627
Second important	14.7% 39	21.0% 37	20.5% 114	24.0% 42	21.0% 65	20.1% 297
Third important	13.2% 35	15.3% 27	18.0% 100	19.4% 34	21.0% 65	17.6% 261
Fourth important	11.7% 31	8.5% 15	16.0% 89	19.4% 34	17.8% 55	15.1% 224
Fifth important	4.5% 12	4.0% 7	4.9% 27	2.9% 5	6.5% 20	4.8% 71
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	43.6% 484	40.5% 104	31.6% 55	41.7% 643
Second important	21.3% 237	15.2% 39	18.4% 32	20.0% 308
Third important	16.8% 187	21.0% 54	16.1% 28	17.4% 269
Fourth important	14.0% 155	17.5% 45	24.7% 43	15.8% 243
Fifth important	4.3% 48	5.8% 15	9.2% 16	5.1% 79
TOTAL	100.0% 1111	100.0% 257	100.0% 174	1542

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
First important	37.6% 287	34.0% 107	60.0% 15	53.7% 191	49.3% 35	41.5% 635
Second important	19.0% 145	21.9% 69	28.0% 7	19.9% 71	19.7% 14	20.0% 306
Third important	18.7% 143	20.0% 63	0.0% 0	14.0% 50	15.5% 11	17.5% 267
Fourth important	19.0% 145	17.8% 56	8.0% 2	9.6% 34	8.5% 6	15.9% 243
Fifth important	5.6% 43	6.3% 20	4.0% 1	2.8% 10	7.0% 5	5.2% 79
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	36.9% 260	45.8% 383	41.7% 643
Second important	19.6% 138	20.3% 170	20.0% 308
Third important	18.0% 127	17.0% 142	17.4% 269
Fourth important	17.9% 126	14.0% 117	15.8% 243
Fifth important	7.7% 54	3.0% 25	5.1% 79
TOTAL	100.0% 705	100.0% 837	1542