Religion and Diversity Survey, 2002-2003

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FORN_LRN (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: Foreigners who come to live in America should give up their foreign ways and learn to be like other Americans.   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	697	23.9%	23.9%
Agree somewhat	648	22.3%	46.2%
Disagree somewhat	728	25%	71.2%
Disagree strongly	781	26.8%	98%
Don’t know	48	1.6%	99.6%
Refused	9	.3%	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	13.8% 101	18.3% 101	25.8% 158	27.6% 155	41.9% 181	2	24.1% 696
Agree somewhat	16.1% 118	22.3% 123	24.3% 149	27.8% 156	22.5% 97	5	22.2% 643
Disagree somewhat	27.2% 199	28.1% 155	24.1% 148	23.7% 133	19.7% 85	7	24.9% 720
Disagree strongly	41.9% 307	29.7% 164	24.1% 148	17.6% 99	13.7% 59	4	26.9% 777
Don’t know	1.0% 7	1.6% 9	1.5% 9	2.5% 14	2.1% 9	1	1.7% 48
Refused	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.7% 4	0.2% 1	2	0.2% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 732	100.0% 552	100.0% 613	100.0% 561	100.0% 432	21	2890

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	33.8% 80	30.8% 290	21.7% 207	23.4% 25	15.2% 68	11.7% 25	1	23.9% 695
Agree somewhat	19.8% 47	21.3% 200	22.5% 215	29.0% 31	23.9% 107	21.5% 46	1	22.3% 646
Disagree somewhat	13.9% 33	24.0% 226	26.8% 256	19.6% 21	27.5% 123	31.3% 67	1	25.0% 726
Disagree strongly	28.3% 67	21.9% 206	27.8% 266	26.2% 28	30.9% 138	34.6% 74	1	26.8% 779
Don’t know	3.8% 9	1.8% 17	1.2% 11	0.9% 1	1.8% 8	0.9% 2	1	1.7% 48
Refused	0.4% 1	0.2% 2	0.1% 1	0.9% 1	0.7% 3	0.0% 0	0	0.3% 8
TOTAL	100.0% 237	100.0% 941	100.0% 956	100.0% 107	100.0% 447	100.0% 214	5	2902

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	23.2% 325	24.6% 372	24.0% 697
Agree somewhat	23.9% 334	20.8% 314	22.3% 648
Disagree somewhat	24.9% 348	25.1% 380	25.0% 728
Disagree strongly	26.3% 368	27.3% 413	26.8% 781
Don’t know	1.4% 19	1.9% 29	1.6% 48
Refused	0.3% 4	0.3% 4	0.3% 8
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	27.6% 67	27.5% 192	22.2% 378	22.5% 60	24.0% 697
Agree somewhat	23.0% 56	20.2% 141	23.5% 399	19.1% 51	22.2% 647
Disagree somewhat	19.3% 47	22.8% 159	26.8% 456	24.3% 65	25.0% 727
Disagree strongly	26.7% 65	27.4% 191	26.3% 447	28.8% 77	26.8% 780
Don’t know	3.3% 8	1.9% 13	0.9% 15	4.5% 12	1.7% 48
Refused	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.4% 6	0.7% 2	0.3% 9
TOTAL	100.0% 243	100.0% 697	100.0% 1701	100.0% 267	2908

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	AsianPcIsl	NatvAmer	OthRace	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	25.0% 544	22.4% 76	12.8% 6	34.0% 18	17.2% 46	6	23.9% 690
Agree somewhat	24.1% 525	17.9% 61	29.8% 14	13.2% 7	12.4% 33	8	22.2% 640
Disagree somewhat	25.8% 563	22.1% 75	19.1% 9	18.9% 10	26.6% 71	1	25.2% 728
Disagree strongly	23.3% 509	35.6% 121	38.3% 18	34.0% 18	40.4% 108	7	26.8% 774
Don’t know	1.4% 30	2.1% 7	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	3.4% 9	1	1.6% 46
Refused	0.4% 9	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.3% 9
TOTAL	100.0% 2180	100.0% 340	100.0% 47	100.0% 53	100.0% 267	23	2887

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical	Mainline	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other faith	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	31.4% 266	23.6% 86	24.9% 47	23.7% 163	16.9% 10	21.0% 43	81	26.1% 615
Agree somewhat	23.1% 196	29.3% 107	16.4% 31	23.2% 160	30.5% 18	20.0% 41	94	23.5% 553
Disagree somewhat	24.1% 204	26.3% 96	24.3% 46	25.4% 175	18.6% 11	25.4% 52	145	24.8% 584
Disagree strongly	19.6% 166	19.2% 70	31.2% 59	25.7% 177	32.2% 19	31.7% 65	224	23.6% 556
Don’t know	1.5% 13	1.6% 6	3.2% 6	1.9% 13	0.0% 0	1.5% 3	7	1.7% 41
Refused	0.4% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	1.7% 1	0.5% 1	2	0.3% 6
TOTAL	100.0% 848	100.0% 365	100.0% 189	100.0% 689	100.0% 59	100.0% 205	553	2355