Report Reveals Several Areas in the Lives of Youth that Effect their Worldviews
- Young people report that they can turn to their parents for advice (68 percent strongly agree)
- few are terribly worried about their relationships with their parents (18 percent very worried).
- The connection to family is stronger among youth with married parents (71 percent strongly agree that they can turn to for advice) than young people with unmarried parents (63 percent strongly agree they can turn to for advice
- After family, religion and sexual preference rank second and third as a way youth would like to describe themselves.
- 33 percent of young people say they are very worried about finding a job (60 percent very and somewhat worried)
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Date: 11/6/2006
Stats classify Youth into the Godly, the God-less, and Undecided
- This survey put youth into three groups: the Godly, the God-less, and the Undecided middle.
- The Godly (27 percent of Generation Y)
- God-less (27 percent of Generation Y)
- The Undecided (46 percent of Generation Y) Middle
- The Godly are people with a strongly religious family life and are more likely to attend worship services regularly (71 percent) and have friends who practice the same religion as them (56 percent).
- 70 percent of the God-less say they hardly ever or never attend worship services.
- Youth in the Undecided middle do not reject religion –over half strongly agree that religion is an important part of their lives and nearly half will call themselves religious (48 percent).
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Date: 11/6/2006
Survey reveals that Americans are eating out despite the rise in the cost of meals
In 2006 the cost of a meal increased 2.8 percent, less than the 4 percent rise in the country's Consumer Price Index.
83 percent of people eat out as often or more than they did two years ago
People in Houston, Texas, eat out the most at 4.2 times a week
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Date: 11/6/2006
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