Religion and Diversity Survey, 2002-2003

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THINK (Weighted by WEIGHT) As a result of this increased religious diversity, would you agree or disagree that people will need to think harder about why they believe in a particular faith? Would you…   1) Agree strongly   2) Agree somewhat   3) Disagree somewhat   4) Disagree strongly   5) Don’t know   6) Refused

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Agree strongly	1255	43.1%	43.1%
Agree somewhat	946	32.5%	75.6%
Disagree somewhat	383	13.2%	88.8%
Disagree strongly	205	7%	95.8%
Don’t know	115	4%	99.8%
Refused	6	.2%	100%

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Household income Race Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18-29	30-39	40-49	50-64	65+	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	44.5% 325	42.8% 236	40.6% 249	44.6% 250	43.1% 186	9	43.1% 1246
Agree somewhat	32.1% 235	35.5% 196	33.4% 205	33.2% 186	26.9% 116	7	32.5% 938
Disagree somewhat	14.1% 103	12.3% 68	15.2% 93	11.9% 67	11.3% 49	1	13.2% 380
Disagree strongly	6.6% 48	6.9% 38	7.8% 48	6.6% 37	7.9% 34	1	7.1% 205
Don’t know	2.7% 20	2.4% 13	2.8% 17	3.4% 19	10.4% 45	2	3.9% 114
Refused	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.2% 1	0.4% 2	0.5% 2	1	0.2% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 731	100.0% 552	100.0% 613	100.0% 561	100.0% 432	21	2889

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school graduate	High school graduate	Some college	Trade/technical/vocational training	College graduate	Post-graduate work/degree	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	38.0% 90	42.5% 400	43.9% 420	52.3% 56	41.4% 185	46.0% 98	5	43.0% 1249
Agree somewhat	34.6% 82	32.1% 302	30.9% 296	29.9% 32	36.2% 162	33.8% 72	0	32.6% 946
Disagree somewhat	11.8% 28	12.1% 114	14.9% 143	9.3% 10	13.9% 62	11.7% 25	0	13.2% 382
Disagree strongly	7.2% 17	7.2% 68	7.4% 71	8.4% 9	5.6% 25	7.0% 15	0	7.1% 205
Don’t know	8.4% 20	6.1% 57	2.6% 25	0.0% 0	2.5% 11	1.4% 3	0	4.0% 116
Refused	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.2% 2	0.0% 0	0.4% 2	0.0% 0	1	0.2% 5
TOTAL	100.0% 237	100.0% 942	100.0% 957	100.0% 107	100.0% 447	100.0% 213	6	2903

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	42.5% 594	43.7% 661	43.1% 1255
Agree somewhat	33.5% 468	31.6% 478	32.5% 946
Disagree somewhat	14.2% 199	12.2% 184	13.2% 383
Disagree strongly	6.7% 94	7.3% 111	7.0% 205
Don’t know	3.1% 43	4.8% 72	4.0% 115
Refused	0.1% 1	0.3% 5	0.2% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 1399	100.0% 1511	2910

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Less than $10,000	Between $10,000 and $30,000	$30,000 or more	Don’t know/Refused	TOTAL
Agree strongly	46.5% 113	41.4% 289	44.1% 750	38.4% 103	43.1% 1255
Agree somewhat	32.9% 80	34.5% 241	32.6% 554	26.5% 71	32.5% 946
Disagree somewhat	10.3% 25	12.0% 84	14.1% 240	12.3% 33	13.1% 382
Disagree strongly	5.8% 14	6.9% 48	7.1% 121	8.2% 22	7.0% 205
Don’t know	4.5% 11	5.0% 35	1.9% 32	13.8% 37	4.0% 115
Refused	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.2% 3	0.7% 2	0.2% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 243	100.0% 698	100.0% 1700	100.0% 268	2909

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	AsianPcIsl	NatvAmer	OthRace	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	42.0% 916	54.0% 184	40.4% 19	49.1% 26	37.1% 99	12	43.1% 1244
Agree somewhat	33.5% 730	25.8% 88	27.7% 13	22.6% 12	36.3% 97	6	32.5% 940
Disagree somewhat	14.1% 307	10.3% 35	12.8% 6	13.2% 7	10.1% 27	1	13.2% 382
Disagree strongly	6.6% 145	8.2% 28	10.6% 5	3.8% 2	8.2% 22	3	7.0% 202
Don’t know	3.6% 78	1.8% 6	8.5% 4	11.3% 6	8.2% 22	0	4.0% 116
Refused	0.2% 5	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1	0.2% 5
TOTAL	100.0% 2181	100.0% 341	100.0% 47	100.0% 53	100.0% 267	23	2889

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical	Mainline	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other faith	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	51.4% 436	42.2% 155	56.6% 107	32.2% 222	30.5% 18	48.5% 100	218	44.0% 1038
Agree somewhat	28.5% 242	35.7% 131	22.8% 43	37.0% 255	23.7% 14	27.7% 57	204	31.5% 742
Disagree somewhat	10.5% 89	13.9% 51	10.6% 20	16.3% 112	22.0% 13	13.6% 28	70	13.3% 313
Disagree strongly	5.4% 46	4.4% 16	7.9% 15	8.9% 61	20.3% 12	5.8% 12	44	6.9% 162
Don’t know	4.0% 34	3.8% 14	2.1% 4	5.5% 38	1.7% 1	4.4% 9	16	4.2% 100
Refused	0.2% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	1.7% 1	0.0% 0	3	0.2% 4
TOTAL	100.0% 849	100.0% 367	100.0% 189	100.0% 689	100.0% 59	100.0% 206	555	2359