Religion and Diversity Survey, 2002-2003

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NEEDLEAR (Weighted by WEIGHT) Would you agree or disagree that we all need to learn something about these new groups and their beliefs?   1) Agree strongly   2) Agree somewhat   3) Disagree somewhat   4) Disagree strongly   5) Don’t know   6) Refused

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Agree strongly	1414	48.6%	48.6%
Agree somewhat	1027	35.3%	83.9%
Disagree somewhat	217	7.5%	91.4%
Disagree strongly	197	6.8%	98.2%
Don’t know	51	1.8%	100%
Refused	5	.2%	100.2%

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	49.2% 360	48.8% 269	47.9% 294	51.7% 290	44.5% 192	8	48.6% 1405
Agree somewhat	33.9% 248	35.0% 193	38.6% 237	32.6% 183	36.9% 159	7	35.3% 1020
Disagree somewhat	8.3% 61	8.7% 48	5.9% 36	7.5% 42	7.0% 30	0	7.5% 217
Disagree strongly	7.7% 56	5.1% 28	6.5% 40	6.2% 35	8.4% 36	2	6.7% 195
Don’t know	1.0% 7	2.4% 13	1.0% 6	1.8% 10	3.0% 13	2	1.7% 49
Refused	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.2% 1	0.2% 1	3	0.1% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 732	100.0% 551	100.0% 614	100.0% 561	100.0% 431	22	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	43.3% 103	38.8% 365	51.4% 492	50.9% 55	56.7% 253	66.8% 143	3	48.6% 1411
Agree somewhat	26.1% 62	38.8% 365	35.8% 343	37.0% 40	34.8% 155	29.0% 62	0	35.4% 1027
Disagree somewhat	13.0% 31	9.8% 92	5.9% 56	9.3% 10	4.5% 20	3.3% 7	0	7.4% 216
Disagree strongly	13.4% 32	10.5% 99	5.3% 51	0.0% 0	2.9% 13	0.5% 1	1	6.7% 196
Don’t know	4.2% 10	2.0% 19	1.6% 15	2.8% 3	0.9% 4	0.5% 1	0	1.8% 52
Refused	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	3	0.1% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 238	100.0% 941	100.0% 957	100.0% 108	100.0% 446	100.0% 214	7	2904

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	47.4% 662	49.7% 752	48.6% 1414
Agree somewhat	36.9% 516	33.8% 511	35.3% 1027
Disagree somewhat	7.7% 108	7.1% 108	7.4% 216
Disagree strongly	6.7% 93	6.9% 104	6.8% 197
Don’t know	1.1% 16	2.2% 34	1.7% 50
Refused	0.1% 2	0.2% 3	0.2% 5
TOTAL	100.0% 1397	100.0% 1512	2909

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	46.9% 115	47.6% 332	50.8% 864	38.4% 103	48.6% 1414
Agree somewhat	26.9% 66	35.5% 248	36.5% 621	34.7% 93	35.3% 1028
Disagree somewhat	10.6% 26	8.0% 56	6.2% 106	10.8% 29	7.5% 217
Disagree strongly	11.0% 27	7.0% 49	5.5% 93	10.4% 28	6.8% 197
Don’t know	4.5% 11	1.4% 10	0.9% 16	4.9% 13	1.7% 50
Refused	0.0% 0	0.4% 3	0.1% 1	0.7% 2	0.2% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 245	100.0% 698	100.0% 1701	100.0% 268	2912

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	AsianPcIsl	NatvAmer	OthRace	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	47.7% 1040	57.1% 194	46.8% 22	57.4% 31	44.6% 119	8	48.7% 1406
Agree somewhat	37.5% 818	25.6% 87	31.9% 15	33.3% 18	30.7% 82	7	35.3% 1020
Disagree somewhat	7.0% 152	7.9% 27	10.6% 5	1.9% 1	10.9% 29	2	7.4% 214
Disagree strongly	6.3% 137	8.5% 29	10.6% 5	1.9% 1	8.6% 23	3	6.8% 195
Don’t know	1.4% 31	0.9% 3	0.0% 0	5.6% 3	5.2% 14	0	1.8% 51
Refused	0.1% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	3	0.1% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 2180	100.0% 340	100.0% 47	100.0% 54	100.0% 267	23	2888

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical	Mainline	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other faith	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	44.4% 377	49.7% 182	54.5% 103	43.3% 299	55.9% 33	46.8% 96	324	46.2% 1090
Agree somewhat	35.9% 305	39.3% 144	28.0% 53	38.7% 267	18.6% 11	35.1% 72	174	36.1% 852
Disagree somewhat	7.7% 65	6.0% 22	8.5% 16	8.6% 59	11.9% 7	10.2% 21	28	8.1% 190
Disagree strongly	9.9% 84	3.6% 13	8.5% 16	7.0% 48	11.9% 7	5.9% 12	18	7.6% 180
Don’t know	2.0% 17	1.4% 5	0.5% 1	2.3% 16	1.7% 1	2.0% 4	7	1.9% 44
Refused	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	3	0.1% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 849	100.0% 366	100.0% 189	100.0% 690	100.0% 59	100.0% 205	554	2358