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Catholic Pluralism Project, 1995

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CHURPOLI (Weighted by WEIGHT)

Now I'm going to read some statements that some people have made about religion and the Catholic Church. Please tell me to what extent you agree or disagree with the statement. -- The Church should stick to religion and not be involved in economic or political issues.

	1) Agree strongly
	2) Agree somewhat
	3) Disagree somewhat
	4) Disagree strongly
	5) Not sure

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Agree strongly	1164	44.1%	44.1%
Agree somewhat	483	18.3%	62.4%
Disagree somewhat	489	18.5%	80.9%
Disagree strongly	380	14.4%	95.3%
Not sure	124	4.7%	100%

Variable Comparisons

Education (I-EDUCATN)

	Lt HS grad	HS grad	SmCol/Tech	Coll. grad	Post-grad	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	47.2% 84	48.1% 357	46.8% 289	33.0% 142	42.4% 78	214	44.2% 950
Agree somewhat	11.2% 20	19.7% 146	15.1% 93	25.3% 109	16.3% 30	85	18.5% 398
Disagree somewhat	15.2% 27	15.9% 118	17.7% 109	25.6% 110	16.8% 31	95	18.4% 395
Disagree strongly	10.1% 18	12.5% 93	12.5% 77	13.3% 57	23.9% 44	91	13.4% 289
Not sure	16.3% 29	3.8% 28	7.9% 49	2.8% 12	0.5% 1	6	5.5% 119
TOTAL	100.0% 178	100.0% 742	100.0% 617	100.0% 430	100.0% 184	491	2151

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Div./Sep.	Single	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	43.0% 634	44.1% 82	58.2% 192	38.9% 250	7	44.0% 1158
Agree somewhat	21.3% 314	18.3% 34	8.5% 28	16.8% 108	0	18.4% 484
Disagree somewhat	16.9% 250	16.7% 31	13.0% 43	25.5% 164	1	18.5% 488
Disagree strongly	14.4% 212	16.7% 31	8.2% 27	16.8% 108	1	14.4% 378
Not sure	4.4% 65	4.3% 8	12.1% 40	1.9% 12	0	4.7% 125
TOTAL	100.0% 1475	100.0% 186	100.0% 330	100.0% 642	9	2633

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	45.1% 470	43.4% 694	44.1% 1164
Agree somewhat	16.4% 171	19.5% 312	18.3% 483
Disagree somewhat	18.7% 195	18.4% 294	18.5% 489
Disagree strongly	16.5% 172	13.0% 208	14.4% 380
Not sure	3.2% 33	5.7% 91	4.7% 124
TOTAL	100.0% 1041	100.0% 1599	2640

Year of birth (I-YRBORN)

	In or before 1940	1941-1960	After 1960	TOTAL
Agree strongly	44.6% 298	47.9% 488	39.7% 378	44.1% 1164
Agree somewhat	15.7% 105	15.4% 157	23.2% 221	18.3% 483
Disagree somewhat	16.3% 109	15.5% 158	23.3% 222	18.5% 489
Disagree strongly	16.9% 113	14.0% 143	13.0% 124	14.4% 380
Not sure	6.4% 43	7.2% 73	0.8% 8	4.7% 124
TOTAL	100.0% 668	100.0% 1019	100.0% 953	2640

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	46.5% 508	41.2% 261	36.5% 145	52.2% 118	133	43.9% 1032
Agree somewhat	17.0% 186	19.7% 125	23.9% 95	12.4% 28	49	18.5% 434
Disagree somewhat	19.6% 214	21.0% 133	19.6% 78	15.0% 34	29	19.5% 459
Disagree strongly	14.2% 155	15.1% 96	16.1% 64	11.9% 27	39	14.6% 342
Not sure	2.7% 30	3.0% 19	3.8% 15	8.4% 19	41	3.5% 83
TOTAL	100.0% 1093	100.0% 634	100.0% 397	100.0% 226	291	2350

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Latino	African-Am	Other	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	44.4% 912	39.6% 145	42.0% 29	54.6% 59	19	44.1% 1145
Agree somewhat	18.9% 387	19.4% 71	29.0% 20	4.6% 5	0	18.6% 483
Disagree somewhat	19.0% 390	21.0% 77	5.8% 4	13.0% 14	4	18.7% 485
Disagree strongly	14.1% 289	13.9% 51	13.0% 9	16.7% 18	13	14.1% 367
Not sure	3.7% 75	6.0% 22	10.1% 7	11.1% 12	8	4.5% 116
TOTAL	100.0% 2053	100.0% 366	100.0% 69	100.0% 108	44	2596

Convert? (I-CONVERT)

	Raisd Cath	Cnvrt Cath	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	43.5% 1049	51.3% 116	0	44.2% 1165
Agree somewhat	19.5% 470	5.8% 13	0	18.3% 483
Disagree somewhat	18.5% 446	17.7% 40	3	18.4% 486
Disagree strongly	14.0% 338	18.6% 42	0	14.4% 380
Not sure	4.4% 107	6.6% 15	2	4.6% 122
TOTAL	100.0% 2410	100.0% 226	5	2636

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Under 15K	15K-29,999	30K-49,999	50K-79,999	80K & over	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	44.2% 99	49.0% 247	41.5% 293	45.5% 241	42.6% 159	125	44.5% 1039
Agree somewhat	12.9% 29	17.7% 89	22.2% 157	18.9% 100	17.2% 64	45	18.8% 439
Disagree somewhat	17.4% 39	17.3% 87	20.4% 144	14.7% 78	26.5% 99	41	19.1% 447
Disagree strongly	16.5% 37	13.1% 66	13.2% 93	16.2% 86	11.3% 42	56	13.9% 324
Not sure	8.9% 20	3.0% 15	2.7% 19	4.7% 25	2.4% 9	35	3.8% 88
TOTAL	100.0% 224	100.0% 504	100.0% 706	100.0% 530	100.0% 373	302	2337