Respondents were also asked about the importance of religion for them and about their religious practices. Results are shown in Table 10 for Buddhists and Moslems. Given the small number of Moslems in the sample, caution is appropriate when interpreting the results. Clearly religion is very important for a substantial majority of Cambodian elders. Three fourths of Buddhists and over 90% of Moslems in our sample indicated that religion was very important for them. This varied very little across gender and residence. There is a modest increase with age in the proportion of Buddhists who indicated religion is very.
