Religion and Diversity Survey, 2002-2003

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US_FOUND (Weighted by WEIGHT) I’m going to read a list of statements. For each, please tell me whether you agree strongly, agree somewhat, disagree somewhat, or disagree strongly: The United States was founded on Christian principles.   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	1445	49.7%	49.7%
Agree somewhat	832	28.6%	78.3%
Disagree somewhat	307	10.5%	88.8%
Disagree strongly	226	7.8%	96.6%
Don’t know	95	3.3%	99.9%
Refused	5	.2%	100.1%

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	36.3% 265	42.5% 235	49.9% 306	57.1% 321	71.3% 308	11	49.6% 1435
Agree somewhat	36.5% 267	30.9% 171	28.4% 174	26.3% 148	15.3% 66	6	28.6% 826
Disagree somewhat	12.6% 92	14.3% 79	12.4% 76	7.5% 42	3.9% 17	1	10.6% 306
Disagree strongly	10.9% 80	8.1% 45	6.0% 37	6.6% 37	6.5% 28	0	7.9% 227
Don’t know	3.7% 27	4.0% 22	2.9% 18	2.3% 13	2.8% 12	4	3.2% 92
Refused	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.3% 2	0.2% 1	0.2% 1	0	0.2% 5
TOTAL	100.0% 731	100.0% 553	100.0% 613	100.0% 562	100.0% 432	22	2891

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	48.9% 116	52.1% 491	50.0% 478	50.9% 55	47.3% 212	43.3% 93	1	49.7% 1445
Agree somewhat	21.1% 50	28.2% 266	28.9% 276	27.8% 30	31.0% 139	32.1% 69	3	28.6% 830
Disagree somewhat	9.3% 22	9.4% 89	11.1% 106	10.2% 11	11.8% 53	12.1% 26	0	10.6% 307
Disagree strongly	9.7% 23	7.0% 66	7.8% 75	7.4% 8	7.1% 32	10.7% 23	0	7.8% 227
Don’t know	10.5% 25	3.2% 30	2.1% 20	3.7% 4	2.2% 10	1.9% 4	3	3.2% 93
Refused	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.4% 2	0.0% 0	0	0.1% 4
TOTAL	100.0% 237	100.0% 942	100.0% 956	100.0% 108	100.0% 448	100.0% 215	7	2906

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	47.4% 663	51.7% 782	49.7% 1445
Agree somewhat	29.3% 409	28.0% 423	28.6% 832
Disagree somewhat	11.1% 155	10.1% 152	10.5% 307
Disagree strongly	8.2% 115	7.3% 111	7.8% 226
Don’t know	3.7% 52	2.8% 43	3.3% 95
Refused	0.3% 4	0.1% 1	0.2% 5
TOTAL	100.0% 1398	100.0% 1512	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	51.2% 125	48.4% 338	50.5% 858	46.6% 125	49.7% 1446
Agree somewhat	25.8% 63	29.9% 209	29.3% 498	23.1% 62	28.6% 832
Disagree somewhat	8.6% 21	10.3% 72	10.6% 180	12.7% 34	10.5% 307
Disagree strongly	9.4% 23	8.2% 57	7.3% 124	8.2% 22	7.8% 226
Don’t know	4.9% 12	3.2% 22	2.2% 38	8.6% 23	3.3% 95
Refused	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 2	0.7% 2	0.1% 4
TOTAL	100.0% 244	100.0% 698	100.0% 1700	100.0% 268	2910

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	AsianPcIsl	NatvAmer	OthRace	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	54.0% 1178	38.2% 129	33.3% 16	39.6% 21	32.5% 87	15	49.6% 1431
Agree somewhat	27.8% 605	29.0% 98	27.1% 13	37.7% 20	34.7% 93	3	28.7% 829
Disagree somewhat	10.0% 217	16.0% 54	10.4% 5	11.3% 6	9.3% 25	0	10.6% 307
Disagree strongly	6.0% 131	12.4% 42	20.8% 10	11.3% 6	13.1% 35	1	7.8% 224
Don’t know	2.1% 46	4.4% 15	8.3% 4	0.0% 0	10.4% 28	3	3.2% 93
Refused	0.1% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1	0.1% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 2180	100.0% 338	100.0% 48	100.0% 53	100.0% 268	23	2887

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical	Mainline	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other faith	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	69.7% 592	57.9% 212	41.8% 79	42.6% 293	20.7% 12	35.4% 73	185	53.5% 1261
Agree somewhat	19.8% 168	31.1% 114	33.3% 63	32.7% 225	25.9% 15	29.6% 61	186	27.4% 646
Disagree somewhat	4.9% 42	5.2% 19	12.2% 23	13.2% 91	19.0% 11	15.0% 31	89	9.2% 217
Disagree strongly	4.2% 36	3.8% 14	9.0% 17	6.0% 41	32.8% 19	15.5% 32	67	6.7% 159
Don’t know	1.2% 10	1.9% 7	3.7% 7	5.4% 37	1.7% 1	3.9% 8	25	3.0% 70
Refused	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.5% 1	2	0.1% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 849	100.0% 366	100.0% 189	100.0% 688	100.0% 58	100.0% 206	554	2356