Life Choices, 1990

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RBIRTCON I am going to read you several reasons that people have given for limiting legal access to abortion. For each of these reasons I want you to tell me whether it is very convincing, fairly convincing, not very convincing, or not at all convincing, as a reason for limiting access to abortion. J. It is wrong to use abortion as a form of birth control or sex selection.   1) Very convincing   2) Fairly convincing   3) Not very convincing   4) Not at all convincing

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very convincing	1378	65.2%	65.2%	-.63
Fairly convincing	406	19.2%	84.3%	.46
Not very convincing	178	8.4%	92.8%	1.55
Not at all convincing	153	7.2%	100%	2.63

Variable Comparisons

Age Worship attendance Education Region Gender Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18-29 years old	30-44 years old	45-59 years old	60-74 years old	75 years and older	TOTAL
Very convincing	68.1% 273	65.7% 481	65.1% 269	61.9% 255	64.9% 96	65.2% 1374
Fairly convincing	19.0% 76	19.5% 143	18.6% 77	19.4% 80	18.2% 27	19.1% 403
Not very convincing	7.7% 31	7.9% 58	8.5% 35	9.7% 40	9.5% 14	8.5% 178
Not at all convincing	5.2% 21	6.8% 50	7.7% 32	9.0% 37	7.4% 11	7.2% 151
TOTAL	100.0% 401	100.0% 732	100.0% 413	100.0% 412	100.0% 148	2106

Worship attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very convincing	53.1% 190	60.4% 402	70.3% 554	77.3% 215	65.1% 1361
Fairly convincing	24.0% 86	22.8% 152	17.6% 139	9.0% 25	19.2% 402
Not very convincing	11.5% 41	10.4% 69	6.2% 49	6.1% 17	8.4% 176
Not at all convincing	11.5% 41	6.5% 43	5.8% 46	7.6% 21	7.2% 151
TOTAL	100.0% 358	100.0% 666	100.0% 788	100.0% 278	2090

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very convincing	70.2% 262	69.3% 482	64.8% 374	55.0% 253	65.1% 1371
Fairly convincing	15.5% 58	16.1% 112	19.6% 113	26.7% 123	19.3% 406
Not very convincing	7.8% 29	8.3% 58	8.5% 49	8.9% 41	8.4% 177
Not at all convincing	6.4% 24	6.3% 44	7.1% 41	9.3% 43	7.2% 152
TOTAL	100.0% 373	100.0% 696	100.0% 577	100.0% 460	2106

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very convincing	65.8% 361	62.3% 351	68.4% 446	62.7% 220	65.2% 1378
Fairly convincing	18.6% 102	20.4% 115	18.4% 120	19.7% 69	19.2% 406
Not very convincing	7.8% 43	9.6% 54	7.8% 51	8.5% 30	8.4% 178
Not at all convincing	7.8% 43	7.6% 43	5.4% 35	9.1% 32	7.2% 153
TOTAL	100.0% 549	100.0% 563	100.0% 652	100.0% 351	2115

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very convincing	62.6% 639	68.0% 716	65.3% 1355
Fairly convincing	21.1% 215	17.5% 184	19.2% 399
Not very convincing	8.5% 87	8.4% 88	8.4% 175
Not at all convincing	7.8% 80	6.2% 65	7.0% 145
TOTAL	100.0% 1021	100.0% 1053	2074

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very convincing	65.5% 742	71.0% 461	45.3% 24	72.2% 65	67.2% 1292
Fairly convincing	19.5% 221	16.2% 105	20.8% 11	14.4% 13	18.2% 350
Not very convincing	8.0% 90	7.4% 48	11.3% 6	7.8% 7	7.8% 151
Not at all convincing	7.0% 79	5.4% 35	22.6% 12	5.6% 5	6.8% 131
TOTAL	100.0% 1132	100.0% 649	100.0% 53	100.0% 90	1924