Marital Status 1

Running Heading: Marital Status by Political Outlook

Exercise #4
The Influence of Marital Status by Politics Political Outlook
Braxton Ray
SOWK300
Tuskegee University
September 21, 2011

Marital Status 2

Example of a Bivariate Table

Table 1

Marital Status by Politics by Political Outlooks

Politics
Marital

Liberal

Tend Lib

Moderate

Married

48.4

47.7

51.4

56.5

61.3

53.3

Widowed

7.8

8.3

10.8

9.7

13.1

10.3

Divorced

11.5

18.7

15.0

15.3

10.3

14.1

Separated

3.6

1.6

4.2

2.4

.4

2.7

Never Married 28.5

23.8

18.6

16.1

14.9

19.5

(R)

(193)

(527)

(248)

(282)

(1442)

(192)

Source: General Social Survey, 1972-2000

Tend Con

Conservative Total

Marital Status 3

Example of a Multivariate Table

Table 2
Marital Status by Politics Political Outlooks Controlling for Race Respondent
Politics
Marital

Liberal

Tend Lib

Moderate

Tend Con

Conservative

Total

Blacks Respondents
Married

32.3

31.8

32.8

36.8

41.7

34.4

Widowed

12.9

9.1

11.5

15.8

16.7

12.7

Divorced

16.1

22.7

6.6

10.5

16.7

12.7

Separated 9.7

4.5

16.4

5.3

4.2

10.2

Never Married 29.0

31.8

31.6

20.8

29.9

(19)

(24)

(157)

(N)

(31)

(22)

32.8
(61)
White Respondent

Married

51.7

50.9

53.5

57.6

63.8

55.7

Widowed

6.7

8.7

11.2

8.8

12.8

10.2

Divorced

10.7

18.0

16.2

16.1

10.3

14.6

Separated

2.7

1.2

2.5

2.3

21.1

16.6

15.2

13.2

17.7

(161)

(445)

(217)

(243)

(1215)

NeverMarried 28.2
(N)

(149)

Source: General Social Survey, 1972-2000

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