Religion and Diversity Survey, 2002-2003

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DEM_CHR (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: Our democratic form of government is based on Christianity.   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	725	24.9%	24.9%
Agree somewhat	887	30.5%	55.4%
Disagree somewhat	653	22.4%	77.8%
Disagree strongly	507	17.4%	95.2%
Don’t know	130	4.5%	99.7%
Refused	7	.2%	99.9%

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	15.6% 114	18.1% 100	25.1% 154	30.8% 173	41.1% 178	6	24.9% 719
Agree somewhat	32.1% 235	33.3% 184	29.0% 178	30.1% 169	26.8% 116	7	30.5% 882
Disagree somewhat	27.0% 198	24.6% 136	21.7% 133	20.5% 115	15.7% 68	3	22.5% 650
Disagree strongly	20.6% 151	17.9% 99	19.7% 121	15.3% 86	10.6% 46	4	17.4% 503
Don’t know	4.5% 33	5.6% 31	4.4% 27	3.0% 17	5.1% 22	2	4.5% 130
Refused	0.1% 1	0.4% 2	0.0% 0	0.4% 2	0.7% 3	0	0.3% 8
TOTAL	100.0% 732	100.0% 552	100.0% 613	100.0% 562	100.0% 433	22	2892

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	31.2% 74	27.3% 257	23.5% 225	31.8% 34	19.7% 88	21.0% 45	1	24.9% 723
Agree somewhat	23.6% 56	31.7% 298	30.7% 294	25.2% 27	34.2% 153	27.6% 59	0	30.6% 887
Disagree somewhat	20.7% 49	20.4% 192	24.7% 236	21.5% 23	22.6% 101	23.8% 51	1	22.5% 652
Disagree strongly	16.0% 38	15.1% 142	17.1% 164	10.3% 11	21.0% 94	26.2% 56	3	17.4% 505
Don’t know	8.0% 19	5.3% 50	3.8% 36	11.2% 12	2.2% 10	0.9% 2	1	4.4% 129
Refused	0.4% 1	0.2% 2	0.2% 2	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.5% 1	0	0.2% 7
TOTAL	100.0% 237	100.0% 941	100.0% 957	100.0% 107	100.0% 447	100.0% 214	6	2903

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	23.3% 326	26.4% 399	24.9% 725
Agree somewhat	30.6% 428	30.4% 459	30.5% 887
Disagree somewhat	23.2% 324	21.8% 329	22.4% 653
Disagree strongly	18.0% 252	16.9% 255	17.4% 507
Don’t know	4.7% 66	4.2% 64	4.5% 130
Refused	0.1% 1	0.4% 6	0.2% 7
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	26.9% 66	26.1% 182	23.7% 403	27.8% 74	24.9% 725
Agree somewhat	27.8% 68	31.1% 217	31.7% 539	23.7% 63	30.5% 887
Disagree somewhat	20.8% 51	19.9% 139	23.9% 407	21.1% 56	22.4% 653
Disagree strongly	15.9% 39	17.2% 120	17.6% 300	18.0% 48	17.4% 507
Don’t know	8.2% 20	5.6% 39	2.9% 49	8.6% 23	4.5% 131
Refused	0.4% 1	0.1% 1	0.2% 3	0.8% 2	0.2% 7
TOTAL	100.0% 245	100.0% 698	100.0% 1701	100.0% 266	2910

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	AsianPcIsl	NatvAmer	OthRace	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	26.1% 568	22.7% 77	16.7% 8	26.4% 14	19.0% 51	7	24.9% 718
Agree somewhat	31.3% 681	28.0% 95	31.3% 15	34.0% 18	27.6% 74	4	30.6% 883
Disagree somewhat	22.3% 485	23.3% 79	20.8% 10	18.9% 10	23.5% 63	5	22.4% 647
Disagree strongly	16.6% 362	20.9% 71	25.0% 12	7.5% 4	19.8% 53	5	17.4% 502
Don’t know	3.6% 79	4.1% 14	6.3% 3	13.2% 7	9.7% 26	1	4.5% 129
Refused	0.1% 3	0.9% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.4% 1	0	0.2% 7
TOTAL	100.0% 2178	100.0% 339	100.0% 48	100.0% 53	100.0% 268	22	2886

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical	Mainline	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other faith	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	35.2% 299	27.6% 101	26.1% 49	23.7% 163	6.8% 4	15.0% 31	78	27.4% 647
Agree somewhat	30.9% 263	34.4% 126	28.7% 54	30.9% 213	15.3% 9	30.9% 64	158	30.9% 729
Disagree somewhat	16.9% 144	18.9% 69	19.7% 37	27.3% 188	30.5% 18	23.2% 48	151	21.4% 504
Disagree strongly	11.9% 101	15.6% 57	18.6% 35	14.2% 98	45.8% 27	24.2% 50	140	15.6% 368
Don’t know	4.9% 42	3.3% 12	5.3% 10	3.8% 26	1.7% 1	5.8% 12	27	4.4% 103
Refused	0.1% 1	0.3% 1	1.6% 3	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	1.0% 2	0	0.3% 8
TOTAL	100.0% 850	100.0% 366	100.0% 188	100.0% 689	100.0% 59	100.0% 207	554	2359