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Catholic Pluralism Project, 1995

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RICHPOOR (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. -- Catholics have a duty to try to close the gap between the rich and the poor.

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

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Agree strongly	781	29.6%	29.6%
Agree somewhat	621	23.5%	53.1%
Disagree somewhat	506	19.2%	72.3%
Disagree strongly	548	20.8%	93.1%
Not sure	184	7%	100.1%

Variable Comparisons

Education (I-EDUCATN)

	Lt HS grad	HS grad	SmCol/Tech	Coll. grad	Post-grad	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	28.7% 51	29.6% 220	24.3% 150	29.5% 127	30.3% 56	178	28.1% 604
Agree somewhat	17.4% 31	22.8% 169	20.1% 124	26.5% 114	24.3% 45	139	22.4% 483
Disagree somewhat	15.7% 28	18.2% 135	22.9% 141	23.0% 99	17.3% 32	71	20.2% 435
Disagree strongly	23.0% 41	22.6% 168	22.4% 138	16.3% 70	24.3% 45	86	21.5% 462
Not sure	15.2% 27	6.7% 50	10.4% 64	4.7% 20	3.8% 7	16	7.8% 168
TOTAL	100.0% 178	100.0% 742	100.0% 617	100.0% 430	100.0% 185	490	2152

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Div./Sep.	Single	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	28.3% 417	22.7% 42	27.0% 89	36.4% 233	0	29.7% 781
Agree somewhat	23.6% 348	23.2% 43	17.9% 59	26.6% 170	1	23.6% 620
Disagree somewhat	18.6% 275	19.5% 36	23.3% 77	17.3% 111	7	19.0% 499
Disagree strongly	22.4% 330	19.5% 36	23.6% 78	16.1% 103	1	20.8% 547
Not sure	7.2% 106	15.1% 28	8.2% 27	3.6% 23	0	7.0% 184
TOTAL	100.0% 1476	100.0% 185	100.0% 330	100.0% 640	9	2631

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	32.2% 336	27.8% 445	29.6% 781
Agree somewhat	23.4% 244	23.6% 377	23.5% 621
Disagree somewhat	18.8% 196	19.4% 310	19.2% 506
Disagree strongly	20.7% 216	20.8% 332	20.8% 548
Not sure	4.8% 50	8.4% 134	7.0% 184
TOTAL	100.0% 1042	100.0% 1598	2640

Year of birth (I-YRBORN)

	In or before 1940	1941-1960	After 1960	TOTAL
Agree strongly	32.2% 215	25.7% 262	32.0% 305	29.6% 782
Agree somewhat	15.7% 105	22.5% 229	30.1% 287	23.5% 621
Disagree somewhat	21.0% 140	21.9% 223	15.0% 143	19.2% 506
Disagree strongly	17.1% 114	25.4% 259	18.4% 175	20.7% 548
Not sure	14.1% 94	4.6% 47	4.5% 43	7.0% 184
TOTAL	100.0% 668	100.0% 1020	100.0% 953	2641

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	29.5% 323	26.5% 168	30.0% 119	29.6% 67	105	28.8% 677
Agree somewhat	24.1% 264	25.4% 161	29.2% 116	17.3% 39	41	24.7% 580
Disagree somewhat	17.9% 196	19.6% 124	18.6% 74	21.2% 48	64	18.8% 442
Disagree strongly	20.8% 228	23.2% 147	15.6% 62	24.3% 55	56	20.9% 492
Not sure	7.7% 84	5.2% 33	6.5% 26	7.5% 17	24	6.8% 160
TOTAL	100.0% 1095	100.0% 633	100.0% 397	100.0% 226	290	2351

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Latino	African-Am	Other	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	29.2% 600	29.6% 109	34.3% 23	37.4% 40	9	29.7% 772
Agree somewhat	25.6% 526	20.7% 76	13.4% 9	8.4% 9	1	23.9% 620
Disagree somewhat	20.3% 416	16.8% 62	6.0% 4	15.9% 17	7	19.2% 499
Disagree strongly	17.8% 366	28.5% 105	29.9% 20	36.4% 39	18	20.4% 530
Not sure	7.1% 146	4.3% 16	16.4% 11	1.9% 2	9	6.7% 175
TOTAL	100.0% 2054	100.0% 368	100.0% 67	100.0% 107	44	2596

Convert? (I-CONVERT)

	Raisd Cath	Cnvrt Cath	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	28.7% 692	38.1% 86	3	29.5% 778
Agree somewhat	23.6% 568	23.5% 53	0	23.6% 621
Disagree somewhat	19.3% 464	18.6% 42	0	19.2% 506
Disagree strongly	20.9% 503	19.5% 44	0	20.8% 547
Not sure	7.5% 181	0.4% 1	2	6.9% 182
TOTAL	100.0% 2408	100.0% 226	5	2634

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Under 15K	15K-29,999	30K-49,999	50K-79,999	80K & over	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	32.3% 72	31.5% 159	26.1% 184	31.7% 168	30.4% 114	83	29.8% 697
Agree somewhat	21.1% 47	21.2% 107	30.2% 213	21.1% 112	21.9% 82	60	24.0% 561
Disagree somewhat	22.0% 49	21.0% 106	21.4% 151	16.4% 87	18.9% 71	42	19.8% 464
Disagree strongly	17.0% 38	18.1% 91	17.8% 126	26.0% 138	25.3% 95	60	20.9% 488
Not sure	7.6% 17	8.1% 41	4.5% 32	4.7% 25	3.5% 13	57	5.5% 128
TOTAL	100.0% 223	100.0% 504	100.0% 706	100.0% 530	100.0% 375	302	2338