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Catholic Pluralism Project, 1995

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CATHSPEC (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. -- There is something very special about being Catholic that you can't find in other religions.

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

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Agree strongly	1042	39.5%	39.5%
Agree somewhat	550	20.8%	60.3%
Disagree somewhat	368	13.9%	74.2%
Disagree strongly	461	17.5%	91.7%
Not sure	220	8.3%	100%

Variable Comparisons

Education (I-EDUCATN)

	Lt HS grad	HS grad	SmCol/Tech	Coll. grad	Post-grad	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	43.3% 77	44.0% 326	37.0% 228	35.3% 152	36.4% 67	192	39.5% 850
Agree somewhat	14.0% 25	20.1% 149	18.8% 116	28.1% 121	13.6% 25	114	20.3% 436
Disagree somewhat	13.5% 24	13.9% 103	10.1% 62	12.3% 53	22.8% 42	84	13.2% 284
Disagree strongly	18.0% 32	14.6% 108	21.4% 132	18.3% 79	18.5% 34	75	17.9% 385
Not sure	11.2% 20	7.4% 55	12.7% 78	6.0% 26	8.7% 16	25	9.1% 195
TOTAL	100.0% 178	100.0% 741	100.0% 616	100.0% 431	100.0% 184	490	2150

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Div./Sep.	Single	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	37.4% 551	54.3% 101	39.2% 129	39.3% 252	9	39.2% 1033
Agree somewhat	21.6% 318	18.8% 35	19.5% 64	20.7% 133	0	20.9% 550
Disagree somewhat	12.4% 183	11.8% 22	13.1% 43	18.8% 121	0	14.0% 369
Disagree strongly	18.8% 277	11.3% 21	16.7% 55	16.8% 108	0	17.5% 461
Not sure	9.9% 146	3.8% 7	11.6% 38	4.4% 28	0	8.3% 219
TOTAL	100.0% 1475	100.0% 186	100.0% 329	100.0% 642	9	2632

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	35.3% 367	42.2% 675	39.5% 1042
Agree somewhat	23.2% 242	19.3% 308	20.8% 550
Disagree somewhat	15.8% 164	12.8% 204	13.9% 368
Disagree strongly	17.7% 184	17.3% 277	17.5% 461
Not sure	8.1% 84	8.4% 135	8.3% 219
TOTAL	100.0% 1041	100.0% 1599	2640

Year of birth (I-YRBORN)

	In or before 1940	1941-1960	After 1960	TOTAL
Agree strongly	59.3% 396	34.0% 346	31.5% 300	39.5% 1042
Agree somewhat	13.2% 88	23.8% 243	23.0% 219	20.8% 550
Disagree somewhat	8.5% 57	13.1% 133	18.7% 178	13.9% 368
Disagree strongly	10.3% 69	21.3% 217	18.3% 174	17.4% 460
Not sure	8.7% 58	7.9% 80	8.6% 82	8.3% 220
TOTAL	100.0% 668	100.0% 1019	100.0% 953	2640

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	36.7% 401	38.2% 242	48.5% 193	36.6% 83	123	39.1% 919
Agree somewhat	19.2% 210	18.8% 119	24.9% 99	31.3% 71	51	21.2% 499
Disagree somewhat	16.7% 183	14.5% 92	10.1% 40	8.8% 20	33	14.2% 335
Disagree strongly	20.1% 220	21.5% 136	5.3% 21	20.3% 46	39	18.0% 423
Not sure	7.2% 79	7.0% 44	11.3% 45	3.1% 7	45	7.4% 175
TOTAL	100.0% 1093	100.0% 633	100.0% 398	100.0% 227	291	2351

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Latino	African-Am	Other	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	37.3% 766	45.4% 166	29.0% 20	57.0% 61	29	39.0% 1013
Agree somewhat	22.7% 466	17.8% 65	4.3% 3	13.1% 14	2	21.1% 548
Disagree somewhat	14.6% 300	12.3% 45	18.8% 13	8.4% 9	0	14.1% 367
Disagree strongly	17.1% 351	16.9% 62	30.4% 21	15.0% 16	11	17.3% 450
Not sure	8.3% 170	7.7% 28	17.4% 12	6.5% 7	2	8.4% 217
TOTAL	100.0% 2053	100.0% 366	100.0% 69	100.0% 107	44	2595

Convert? (I-CONVERT)

	Raisd Cath	Cnvrt Cath	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	38.3% 923	52.7% 119	0	39.5% 1042
Agree somewhat	20.6% 496	23.5% 53	1	20.8% 549
Disagree somewhat	14.4% 347	9.3% 21	0	14.0% 368
Disagree strongly	17.8% 429	13.3% 30	2	17.4% 459
Not sure	8.9% 214	1.3% 3	2	8.2% 217
TOTAL	100.0% 2409	100.0% 226	5	2635

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Under 15K	15K-29,999	30K-49,999	50K-79,999	80K & over	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	58.0% 130	42.1% 213	37.4% 264	32.0% 170	35.9% 134	132	38.9% 911
Agree somewhat	16.1% 36	20.9% 106	26.2% 185	18.6% 99	25.2% 94	32	22.2% 520
Disagree somewhat	13.4% 30	11.9% 60	13.7% 97	15.6% 83	18.0% 67	30	14.4% 337
Disagree strongly	8.9% 20	18.4% 93	15.7% 111	22.0% 117	19.3% 72	48	17.6% 413
Not sure	3.6% 8	6.7% 34	6.9% 49	11.7% 62	1.6% 6	61	6.8% 159
TOTAL	100.0% 224	100.0% 506	100.0% 706	100.0% 531	100.0% 373	303	2340