Catholic Pluralism Project, 1995

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MORALFND (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. -- Being Catholic has given me a solid moral foundation.   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	1843	69.8%	69.8%
Agree somewhat	504	19.1%	88.9%
Disagree somewhat	162	6.1%	95%
Disagree strongly	111	4.2%	99.2%
Not sure	20	.8%	100%

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	58.2% 103	69.5% 515	73.3% 451	76.8% 331	67.9% 125	318	71.0% 1525
Agree somewhat	32.8% 58	14.8% 110	18.7% 115	16.0% 69	20.7% 38	114	18.2% 390
Disagree somewhat	4.5% 8	8.4% 62	3.9% 24	3.0% 13	9.8% 18	36	5.8% 125
Disagree strongly	0.0% 0	6.7% 50	3.7% 23	3.9% 17	0.5% 1	20	4.2% 91
Not sure	4.5% 8	0.5% 4	0.3% 2	0.2% 1	1.1% 2	2	0.8% 17
TOTAL	100.0% 177	100.0% 741	100.0% 615	100.0% 431	100.0% 184	490	2148

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Div./Sep.	Single	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	71.2% 1050	73.1% 136	65.9% 218	67.1% 430	9	69.7% 1834
Agree somewhat	15.7% 232	21.0% 39	23.9% 79	24.2% 155	0	19.2% 505
Disagree somewhat	7.1% 104	2.7% 5	6.0% 20	5.1% 33	0	6.2% 162
Disagree strongly	5.2% 76	2.7% 5	3.0% 10	3.1% 20	0	4.2% 111
Not sure	0.8% 12	0.5% 1	1.2% 4	0.5% 3	0	0.8% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 1474	100.0% 186	100.0% 331	100.0% 641	9	2632

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	65.5% 682	72.6% 1161	69.8% 1843
Agree somewhat	20.6% 215	18.1% 290	19.1% 505
Disagree somewhat	8.2% 85	4.8% 77	6.1% 162
Disagree strongly	5.2% 54	3.6% 57	4.2% 111
Not sure	0.6% 6	0.9% 14	0.8% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 1042	100.0% 1599	2641

Year of birth (I-YRBORN)

	In or before 1940	1941-1960	After 1960	TOTAL
Agree strongly	78.2% 523	68.7% 700	65.2% 621	69.8% 1844
Agree somewhat	14.6% 98	16.6% 169	25.0% 238	19.1% 505
Disagree somewhat	3.7% 25	7.6% 77	6.2% 59	6.1% 161
Disagree strongly	1.6% 11	6.8% 69	3.3% 31	4.2% 111
Not sure	1.8% 12	0.4% 4	0.4% 4	0.8% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 669	100.0% 1019	100.0% 953	2641

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	68.5% 749	68.9% 436	73.8% 293	62.8% 142	223	68.9% 1620
Agree somewhat	18.7% 205	22.1% 140	17.6% 70	19.0% 43	46	19.5% 458
Disagree somewhat	6.8% 74	7.4% 47	6.0% 24	5.3% 12	5	6.7% 157
Disagree strongly	5.6% 61	1.3% 8	0.8% 3	11.5% 26	13	4.2% 98
Not sure	0.5% 5	0.3% 2	1.8% 7	1.3% 3	4	0.7% 17
TOTAL	100.0% 1094	100.0% 633	100.0% 397	100.0% 226	291	2350

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Latino	African-Am	Other	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	69.8% 1433	73.1% 269	54.4% 37	73.8% 79	25	70.0% 1818
Agree somewhat	19.4% 399	19.3% 71	23.5% 16	6.5% 7	12	19.0% 493
Disagree somewhat	6.7% 137	2.7% 10	7.4% 5	9.3% 10	0	6.2% 162
Disagree strongly	3.6% 74	3.3% 12	11.8% 8	8.4% 9	8	4.0% 103
Not sure	0.5% 10	1.6% 6	2.9% 2	1.9% 2	0	0.8% 20
TOTAL	100.0% 2053	100.0% 368	100.0% 68	100.0% 107	45	2596

Convert? (I-CONVERT)

	Raisd Cath	Cnvrt Cath	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	70.8% 1707	58.8% 133	3	69.8% 1840
Agree somewhat	18.6% 448	25.2% 57	0	19.2% 505
Disagree somewhat	5.7% 137	11.1% 25	0	6.1% 162
Disagree strongly	4.2% 101	3.5% 8	2	4.1% 109
Not sure	0.7% 17	1.3% 3	0	0.8% 20
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	72.6% 162	71.4% 360	68.5% 483	69.6% 369	68.4% 256	213	69.8% 1630
Agree somewhat	20.2% 45	21.0% 106	22.0% 155	15.8% 84	15.5% 58	55	19.2% 448
Disagree somewhat	6.3% 14	5.4% 27	6.7% 47	7.4% 39	7.2% 27	8	6.6% 154
Disagree strongly	0.4% 1	2.0% 10	2.3% 16	7.2% 38	7.5% 28	18	4.0% 93
Not sure	0.4% 1	0.2% 1	0.6% 4	0.0% 0	1.3% 5	8	0.5% 11
TOTAL	100.0% 223	100.0% 504	100.0% 705	100.0% 530	100.0% 374	302	2336