Catholic Pluralism Project, 1995

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TRUECHUR (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 Catholic Church is the one true Church.   1) Agree strongly   2) Agree somewhat   3) Disagree somewhat   4) Disagree strongly   5) Not sure

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Agree strongly	874	33.1%	33.1%
Agree somewhat	445	16.9%	50%
Disagree somewhat	538	20.4%	70.4%
Disagree strongly	673	25.5%	95.9%
Not sure	110	4.2%	100.1%

Variable Comparisons

Education Marital status Sex Year of birth Region Race Convert? Household income

Education (I-EDUCATN)

	Lt HS grad	HS grad	SmCol/Tech	Coll. grad	Post-grad	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	54.5% 97	38.5% 285	33.4% 206	32.9% 142	16.8% 31	114	35.4% 761
Agree somewhat	10.1% 18	19.3% 143	16.1% 99	11.8% 51	17.8% 33	101	16.0% 344
Disagree somewhat	11.8% 21	18.9% 140	18.3% 113	23.0% 99	27.6% 51	114	19.7% 424
Disagree strongly	14.6% 26	19.5% 144	28.7% 177	29.5% 127	32.4% 60	139	24.8% 534
Not sure	9.0% 16	3.8% 28	3.4% 21	2.8% 12	5.4% 10	24	4.0% 87
TOTAL	100.0% 178	100.0% 740	100.0% 616	100.0% 431	100.0% 185	492	2150

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Div./Sep.	Single	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	33.8% 498	45.4% 84	33.6% 111	26.8% 172	9	32.9% 865
Agree somewhat	17.1% 252	10.3% 19	15.8% 52	19.0% 122	0	16.9% 445
Disagree somewhat	20.9% 308	19.5% 36	15.8% 52	22.1% 142	0	20.4% 538
Disagree strongly	24.4% 359	18.4% 34	30.6% 101	27.9% 179	0	25.6% 673
Not sure	3.9% 57	6.5% 12	4.2% 14	4.2% 27	0	4.2% 110
TOTAL	100.0% 1474	100.0% 185	100.0% 330	100.0% 642	9	2631

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	31.5% 328	34.2% 547	33.1% 875
Agree somewhat	17.4% 181	16.5% 264	16.8% 445
Disagree somewhat	17.6% 183	22.2% 355	20.4% 538
Disagree strongly	29.7% 309	22.8% 364	25.5% 673
Not sure	3.9% 41	4.3% 69	4.2% 110
TOTAL	100.0% 1042	100.0% 1599	2641

Year of birth (I-YRBORN)

	In or before 1940	1941-1960	After 1960	TOTAL
Agree strongly	50.6% 338	27.4% 279	27.1% 258	33.1% 875
Agree somewhat	13.5% 90	17.4% 177	18.7% 178	16.8% 445
Disagree somewhat	13.6% 91	21.9% 223	23.5% 224	20.4% 538
Disagree strongly	16.6% 111	29.6% 302	27.3% 260	25.5% 673
Not sure	5.7% 38	3.8% 39	3.5% 33	4.2% 110
TOTAL	100.0% 668	100.0% 1020	100.0% 953	2641

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	28.9% 316	27.1% 172	40.8% 162	41.6% 94	131	31.6% 744
Agree somewhat	17.5% 191	15.3% 97	21.2% 84	11.9% 27	46	17.0% 399
Disagree somewhat	20.7% 227	21.9% 139	19.4% 77	14.6% 33	62	20.2% 476
Disagree strongly	27.6% 302	34.1% 216	12.8% 51	27.9% 63	40	26.9% 632
Not sure	5.3% 58	1.6% 10	5.8% 23	4.0% 9	11	4.3% 100
TOTAL	100.0% 1094	100.0% 634	100.0% 397	100.0% 226	290	2351

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Latino	African-Am	Other	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	29.2% 600	50.1% 184	30.9% 21	54.2% 58	11	33.2% 863
Agree somewhat	18.1% 371	13.9% 51	5.9% 4	11.2% 12	7	16.9% 438
Disagree somewhat	21.2% 435	17.2% 63	35.3% 24	12.1% 13	2	20.6% 535
Disagree strongly	27.2% 559	14.7% 54	26.5% 18	16.8% 18	25	25.0% 649
Not sure	4.3% 89	4.1% 15	1.5% 1	5.6% 6	0	4.3% 111
TOTAL	100.0% 2054	100.0% 367	100.0% 68	100.0% 107	45	2596

Convert? (I-CONVERT)

	Raisd Cath	Cnvrt Cath	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	33.5% 808	29.6% 67	0	33.2% 875
Agree somewhat	16.8% 405	17.3% 39	1	16.8% 444
Disagree somewhat	20.6% 497	18.1% 41	0	20.4% 538
Disagree strongly	24.7% 595	33.6% 76	2	25.5% 671
Not sure	4.4% 105	1.3% 3	2	4.1% 108
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	36.3% 81	39.2% 198	31.7% 224	27.4% 145	22.0% 82	145	31.2% 730
Agree somewhat	18.4% 41	12.3% 62	18.4% 130	20.6% 109	17.7% 66	36	17.5% 408
Disagree somewhat	15.7% 35	17.0% 86	25.1% 177	20.4% 108	23.1% 86	46	21.1% 492
Disagree strongly	22.9% 51	26.1% 132	23.1% 163	28.1% 149	34.9% 130	48	26.7% 625
Not sure	6.7% 15	5.3% 27	1.7% 12	3.6% 19	2.4% 9	28	3.5% 82
TOTAL	100.0% 223	100.0% 505	100.0% 706	100.0% 530	100.0% 373	303	2337