{"id":2602,"date":"2009-08-31T19:34:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2009-08-31T19:35:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T03:35:14","slug":"attitudes-toward-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/attitudes-toward-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitudes toward assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous post prompted<\/a> me to look to the General Social Survey<\/a> in regards to attitudes to assisted suicide broken down by demographic variables. The variable I used was DOCSUI, which asks:<\/p>\n

How much do you agree of disagree with the following options for this person? This person should ask for physician-assisted suicide<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The N was a little more than 1200, and the question was asked in 1998. I put the extreme and moderate views together (strongly and not strongly). Below a chart and the raw data in a table.
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<\/TD> 		Strongly Agree + Agree<\/strong><\/TD> Neither<\/strong><\/TD> Strongly Disagree + Disagree<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
White<\/strong><\/TD> 34.2<\/TD> 20.9<\/TD> 44.9<\/TD> <\/TR>
Black<\/strong><\/TD> 17.8<\/TD> 16.9<\/TD> 65.3<\/TD> <\/TR>
Male<\/strong><\/TD> 37.3<\/TD> 19.4<\/TD> 43.2<\/TD> <\/TR>
Female<\/strong><\/TD> 27.4<\/TD> 20.6<\/TD> 52<\/TD> <\/TR>
High School<\/strong><\/TD> 34<\/TD> 20.5<\/TD> 45.5<\/TD> <\/TR>
Junior College<\/strong><\/TD> 31<\/TD> 19.6<\/TD> 49.5<\/TD> <\/TR>
Bachelor<\/strong><\/TD> 30.9<\/TD> 21<\/TD> 48.1<\/TD> <\/TR>
Graduate<\/strong><\/TD> 23.9<\/TD> 30.8<\/TD> 45.3<\/TD> <\/TR>
Protestant<\/strong><\/TD> 25.6<\/TD> 18.3<\/TD> 56.1<\/TD> <\/TR>
Catholic<\/strong><\/TD> 31.4<\/TD> 20.8<\/TD> 47.8<\/TD> <\/TR>
No Religion <\/strong><\/TD> 50.8<\/TD> 23.4<\/TD> 24.8<\/TD> <\/TR>
Northeast<\/strong><\/TD> 37.7<\/TD> 23.3<\/TD> 39.1<\/TD> <\/TR>
Midwest<\/strong><\/TD> 29.2<\/TD> 18.4<\/TD> 52.3<\/TD> <\/TR>
South<\/strong><\/TD> 26<\/TD> 19.6<\/TD> 54.4<\/TD> <\/TR>
West<\/strong><\/TD> 38.8<\/TD> 20.1<\/TD> 41.1<\/TD> <\/TR>
Liberal<\/strong><\/TD> 38.6<\/TD> 22.5<\/TD> 38.9<\/TD> <\/TR>
Moderate<\/strong><\/TD> 37<\/TD> 24.8<\/TD> 38.1<\/TD> <\/TR>
Conservative<\/strong><\/TD> 30.5<\/TD> 19.8<\/TD> 49.7<\/TD> <\/TR> <\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previous post prompted me to look to the General Social Survey in regards to attitudes to assisted suicide broken down by demographic variables. The variable I used was DOCSUI, which asks: How much do you agree of disagree with the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}