General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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ABMORAL Leaving aside whether or not you think abortion should be legal, are you morally opposed to abortion or not, or would you say it depends?   1) Morally opposed   2) Not morally opposed   3) It depends

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Morally opposed	660	28.9%	28.9%	-1.37
Not morally opposed	632	27.6%	56.5%	-0.17
It depends	995	43.5%	100.0%	1.02

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
Morally opposed	25.4% 100	26.9% 170	30.2% 168	28.9% 144	37.5% 75	28.8% 657
Not morally opposed	31.3% 123	29.9% 189	26.0% 145	27.1% 135	19.5% 39	27.7% 631
It depends	43.3% 170	43.2% 273	43.8% 244	44.1% 220	43.0% 86	43.5% 993
TOTAL	100.0% 393	100.0% 632	100.0% 557	100.0% 499	100.0% 200	2281

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
Morally opposed	16.2% 113	16.2% 22	21.5% 63	25.6% 60	31.0% 100	38.1% 32	53.2% 269	29.0% 659
Not morally opposed	39.8% 278	33.1% 45	31.7% 93	28.2% 66	23.2% 75	16.7% 14	11.5% 58	27.6% 629
It depends	44.1% 308	50.7% 69	46.8% 137	46.2% 108	45.8% 148	45.2% 38	35.4% 179	43.4% 987
TOTAL	100.0% 699	100.0% 136	100.0% 293	100.0% 234	100.0% 323	100.0% 84	100.0% 506	2275

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Extremely liberal or liberal	Slightly liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Slightly conservative	Conservative or extremely conservative	TOTAL
Morally opposed	10.0% 39	18.3% 46	24.3% 203	39.0% 108	53.1% 233	28.7% 629
Not morally opposed	54.4% 212	32.7% 82	25.3% 211	19.9% 55	11.2% 49	27.8% 609
It depends	35.6% 139	49.0% 123	50.4% 421	41.2% 114	35.8% 157	43.5% 954
TOTAL	100.0% 390	100.0% 251	100.0% 835	100.0% 277	100.0% 439	2192

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
Morally opposed	30.3% 498	24.7% 93	26.0% 69	28.9% 660
Not morally opposed	28.4% 468	25.3% 95	26.0% 69	27.6% 632
It depends	41.3% 680	50.0% 188	47.9% 127	43.5% 995
TOTAL	100.0% 1646	100.0% 376	100.0% 265	2287

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
Morally opposed	37.8% 420	27.5% 133	21.1% 8	13.3% 70	22.3% 25	28.9% 656
Not morally opposed	20.3% 226	22.8% 110	39.5% 15	46.9% 247	25.0% 28	27.6% 626
It depends	41.9% 465	49.7% 240	39.5% 15	39.8% 210	52.7% 59	43.5% 989
TOTAL	100.0% 1111	100.0% 483	100.0% 38	100.0% 527	100.0% 112	2271

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Morally opposed	26.9% 276	30.5% 384	28.9% 660
Not morally opposed	28.3% 290	27.1% 342	27.6% 632
It depends	44.8% 460	42.4% 535	43.5% 995
TOTAL	100.0% 1026	100.0% 1261	2287