Re: more polls

["Margaret M Gullette" <mgullette@xxxxxxx>]

Kelly: Age is more salient than gender?
    Can you tell me what the headings of the columns refer to? (I
must have missed a post?)
        Margaret

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-----Original Message-----
From: kelley <kcwalker@xxxxxxx>
To: A place for marxist-feminists to hang out
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Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: more polls


>right there andy is one of the issues.  patterns of thinking
regarding
>abortion are heavily influenced, it turns out, by age.
>>age
>>   18-29                   29           50           18
3
>>   30-49                   32           53           12
3
>>   50-64                   24           58           14
4
>>   50+                     20           57           19
4
>>   65+                     16           55           25
4
>
>when i taught methods last year, one of my students broke it down by
age
>and it turned out to be more salient than even examining that norc
data by
>creating scale of religiosity.  that is, when you look at
"protestants,
>catholics, jews" it doesn't appear that religion affects abortion
opinion
>all that much.  but when you break protestants down into how
fundamentalist
>and literalist they are, then it has a big influence on abortion
opinion.
>but what turned out to be more significant by comparison was age.
which, i
>think, supports yoshie's claim that when more women have abortions
and talk
>about them, etc then it will become less of a problem.
>
>
>kelley
>