General Social Survey, 2018 - Instructional Dataset

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ABSTATE2 Here in [CURRENT STATE], do you think that laws should be changed to make it easier for a woman to get an abortion, be changed to make it harder for a woman to get an abortion, or should the laws stay as they are now?   1) Make it easier   2) Make it harder   3) Stay as they are now

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Make it easier	403	19.6%	19.6%	-1.68
Make it harder	610	29.6%	49.2%	-0.40
Stay as they are now	1046	50.8%	100.0%	0.88

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
Make it easier	24.3% 89	19.6% 112	16.8% 86	19.9% 87	16.8% 28	19.6% 402
Make it harder	24.6% 90	30.9% 177	29.0% 148	29.5% 129	37.7% 63	29.6% 607
Stay as they are now	51.1% 187	49.5% 283	54.2% 277	50.6% 221	45.5% 76	50.9% 1044
TOTAL	100.0% 366	100.0% 572	100.0% 511	100.0% 437	100.0% 167	2053

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
Make it easier	29.0% 183	23.0% 28	15.4% 41	20.4% 43	15.5% 45	15.8% 12	11.1% 50	19.6% 402
Make it harder	16.9% 107	19.7% 24	21.3% 57	21.3% 45	31.6% 92	47.4% 36	54.9% 247	29.7% 608
Stay as they are now	54.1% 342	57.4% 70	63.3% 169	58.3% 123	52.9% 154	36.8% 28	34.0% 153	50.7% 1039
TOTAL	100.0% 632	100.0% 122	100.0% 267	100.0% 211	100.0% 291	100.0% 76	100.0% 450	2049

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Extremely liberal or liberal	Slightly liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Slightly conservative	Conservative or extremely conservative	TOTAL
Make it easier	45.9% 163	22.7% 54	15.7% 116	12.4% 31	7.2% 29	19.8% 393
Make it harder	11.3% 40	16.4% 39	25.8% 191	37.5% 94	56.1% 226	29.7% 590
Stay as they are now	42.8% 152	60.9% 145	58.5% 432	50.2% 126	36.7% 148	50.5% 1003
TOTAL	100.0% 355	100.0% 238	100.0% 739	100.0% 251	100.0% 403	1986

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Other	TOTAL
Make it easier	19.5% 287	20.3% 71	18.9% 45	19.6% 403
Make it harder	31.3% 460	23.1% 81	29.0% 69	29.6% 610
Stay as they are now	49.2% 724	56.6% 198	52.1% 124	50.8% 1046
TOTAL	100.0% 1471	100.0% 350	100.0% 238	2059

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other (specify)	TOTAL
Make it easier	14.7% 147	15.6% 69	32.4% 12	31.2% 148	27.4% 26	19.6% 402
Make it harder	39.0% 390	30.6% 135	13.5% 5	13.5% 64	13.7% 13	29.7% 607
Stay as they are now	46.3% 463	53.7% 237	54.1% 20	55.3% 262	58.9% 56	50.7% 1038
TOTAL	100.0% 1000	100.0% 441	100.0% 37	100.0% 474	100.0% 95	2047

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Make it easier	21.1% 195	18.3% 208	19.6% 403
Make it harder	25.9% 239	32.7% 371	29.6% 610
Stay as they are now	53.0% 490	49.0% 556	50.8% 1046
TOTAL	100.0% 924	100.0% 1135	2059