Religion and Diversity Survey, 2002-2003

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AMR_LIFE (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: Nothing in other countries can beat the American way of life.   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	1486	51.1%	51.1%
Agree somewhat	544	18.7%	69.8%
Disagree somewhat	490	16.8%	86.6%
Disagree strongly	293	10.1%	96.7%
Don’t know	94	3.2%	99.9%
Refused	2	.1%	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	35.7% 261	49.5% 273	54.9% 337	59.3% 332	63.3% 274	9	51.1% 1477
Agree somewhat	23.3% 170	20.8% 115	17.3% 106	16.1% 90	12.9% 56	7	18.6% 537
Disagree somewhat	23.4% 171	19.4% 107	15.5% 95	12.7% 71	10.2% 44	2	16.9% 488
Disagree strongly	15.6% 114	8.3% 46	9.6% 59	7.1% 40	7.9% 34	1	10.1% 293
Don’t know	2.1% 15	2.0% 11	2.6% 16	4.6% 26	5.5% 24	3	3.2% 92
Refused	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.2% 1	0.2% 1	0	0.1% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 731	100.0% 552	100.0% 614	100.0% 560	100.0% 433	22	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	48.3% 115	58.9% 554	50.5% 483	51.4% 55	44.0% 197	37.1% 79	3	51.1% 1483
Agree somewhat	17.6% 42	15.9% 150	20.0% 191	16.8% 18	22.5% 101	18.8% 40	1	18.7% 542
Disagree somewhat	12.2% 29	13.2% 124	18.8% 180	21.5% 23	18.3% 82	24.4% 52	0	16.9% 490
Disagree strongly	13.4% 32	9.0% 85	8.1% 77	6.5% 7	12.5% 56	16.0% 34	3	10.0% 291
Don’t know	8.0% 19	3.0% 28	2.6% 25	3.7% 4	2.5% 11	3.3% 7	0	3.2% 94
Refused	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.5% 1	0	0.1% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 238	100.0% 941	100.0% 956	100.0% 107	100.0% 448	100.0% 213	7	2903

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	47.9% 669	54.0% 817	51.1% 1486
Agree somewhat	19.7% 275	17.8% 269	18.7% 544
Disagree somewhat	18.9% 264	14.9% 226	16.8% 490
Disagree strongly	10.2% 143	9.9% 150	10.1% 293
Don’t know	3.3% 46	3.2% 48	3.2% 94
Refused	0.1% 1	0.1% 2	0.1% 3
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	50.8% 125	51.5% 359	51.2% 871	49.2% 131	51.1% 1486
Agree somewhat	20.7% 51	18.1% 126	19.2% 326	15.4% 41	18.7% 544
Disagree somewhat	15.0% 37	14.6% 102	18.3% 312	14.7% 39	16.8% 490
Disagree strongly	10.2% 25	13.3% 93	8.4% 143	12.0% 32	10.1% 293
Don’t know	3.3% 8	2.2% 15	2.8% 48	8.6% 23	3.2% 94
Refused	0.0% 0	0.3% 2	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 246	100.0% 697	100.0% 1701	100.0% 266	2910

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	AsianPcIsl	NatvAmer	OthRace	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	53.5% 1167	46.3% 157	38.8% 19	41.5% 22	40.4% 108	14	51.0% 1473
Agree somewhat	17.3% 378	20.4% 69	28.6% 14	22.6% 12	25.1% 67	5	18.7% 540
Disagree somewhat	16.8% 366	18.0% 61	24.5% 12	22.6% 12	14.6% 39	1	17.0% 490
Disagree strongly	9.3% 203	11.2% 38	6.1% 3	11.3% 6	15.0% 40	3	10.0% 290
Don’t know	2.9% 64	4.1% 14	2.0% 1	1.9% 1	4.9% 13	1	3.2% 93
Refused	0.1% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.1% 2
TOTAL	100.0% 2180	100.0% 339	100.0% 49	100.0% 53	100.0% 267	24	2888

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical	Mainline	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other faith	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	64.4% 547	52.9% 193	48.9% 92	51.3% 354	46.6% 27	45.4% 93	181	55.4% 1306
Agree somewhat	15.8% 134	20.5% 75	24.5% 46	20.0% 138	13.8% 8	16.6% 34	109	18.5% 435
Disagree somewhat	12.1% 103	17.8% 65	16.0% 30	15.7% 108	20.7% 12	20.5% 42	130	15.3% 360
Disagree strongly	4.2% 36	6.6% 24	8.0% 15	9.9% 68	13.8% 8	14.1% 29	113	7.6% 180
Don’t know	3.4% 29	1.9% 7	2.7% 5	3.0% 21	5.2% 3	3.4% 7	21	3.1% 72
Refused	0.1% 1	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.1% 3
TOTAL	100.0% 850	100.0% 365	100.0% 188	100.0% 690	100.0% 58	100.0% 205	554	2356