Cultural transmission of civic attitudes

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Table 1 Transmission of civic attitude questions

Question	Percentage	Percentage
Parents involved in civic associations
Non of the parents	76.84
One parent	12.50
Both parents	10.66
Discuss politics	At home	At school
Frequently	9.25	6.29
Occasionally	29.63	17.57
Rarely	26.05	28.06
Never	35.05	48.08
Way of political thinking affected	Person	Event
Yes	20.28	25.52

Transformed civic transmission variables	Mean	Std	Min	Max
Aggregate
Civic transmission dummy^a	0.475	0.499	0	1
Transmission mechanisms
Vertical transmission dummy^b	0.368	0.482	0	1
Horizontal transmission dummy^c	0.063	0.253	0	1
Oblique transmission dummy^d	0.255	0.436	0	1
Active catholic	0.151	0.358	0	1

^aTakes value 1 if parents involved in civic organizations, frequently discuss politics at home or at school, way of political thinking affected by an event or person, and zero otherwise
^bTakes value 1 if parents involved in civic organizations, frequently discuss politics at home or way of thinking influenced by a person and 0 otherwise
^cTakes value 1 if frequently discussed politics at school and zero otherwise
^dTakes value 1 if the way of thinking was affected by a particular event and zero otherwise